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There are a lot of dedicated donors out there who are true believers. they go online and vote. that s why he wins all these online polls. they donated a lot of money to him. i think michele bachmann everybody knows has a much better chance of winning and winning iowa. let me say something about the real problem that tim paw lenty faces. this is very serious. this is a guy who was perceived as being a front runner early on. he has his major problem. it s sort of a catch-22. it s this, you can t raise money until you show that you re doing well in the polls. you have to spend money to do well in the polls, which means you don t have money which means you have to spend money. it is a vicious cycle. speak of money, according to usa today only one in five elite gop fundraisers who backed mccain have given any money to the 2012 republicans. there s still money on the sidelines there. good to see you both, thank you. thanks. it s the stuff movies are made of, but it s real life. the g ....
Else. if you were tim pawlenty, to sort of speak up here for governor pawlenty, yeah, you ve had a tough spell here. you didn t have a great debate. tough financial report. expectations are raised for ames. but this race is so wide open and fluid. you still believe romney s a weak front-runner. i think he looks better now than perhaps months ago but i think he s still a fragile front-runner. chuck, this is not 2000. because george w. bush was so formidable. lamar alexander had to drop out after ames. if you re tim pawlenty, why drop out? because just stay in if you can pay the bills just hang on. the john kerry scenario in 04 and the john mccain scenario in 08 proves if you hang in there things can happen. i ve got to go to a shameless plug. pete, i ll let you go first. indiana republican party out with a new website, demdictionary.com. exposes some of these rhetorical phrases democrats like to use to confuse voters. chris cillizza. i am in search of the best st ....
Jonathan martin, chris cillizza, and pete seat. all right. pete, i m going to ask you first. bays don t know if you ll get a word in otherwise. i appreciate that. the new york times today writes a prebituary on the candidacy of tim pawlenty essentially saying it s straw poll or bust for him. you re in a campaign situation and that story hits. it s in the new york times. yes, republicans will all publicly say oh, the new york times always hates republicans. but come on, that s tough on fund-raising. you remember ricky bobby s dad in talladega nights said if you re not first you re last. and they ve been fighting that storyline, that narrative for months. pawlenty. yeah. it got away from him. and it became engrained within the political conversation that he had to win ames and the iowa caucus or he was out. and so now they re fighting against that narrative and trying to lower expectations. chris, but one of his excuses today, and i was stunned, tim pawlenty says he h ....
it s first time i ve been earnestly campaigning. what does that mean? look, people voters are smart. here s a guy he it s like saying well, i haven t been raising money all that long so, the 4.2 million i ve you ve been priming the pump to run for president for years. i mean, yes, i think to pete s point, whatever happened, expectations got a little out of control, and i hate to point to a single moment, but go back and look at that new hampshire debate. going into that debate, the storyline was pawlenty v. romney. pawlenty is the romney alternative. right. he backs down from attacking romney. and then things kind of cascade from there. and his aides have said, frankly, on the record they ve said look, after that debate, our fund-raising took a big hit. remember, it was the last two weeks of the was it a kick in the teeth when they found out michele bachmann doubled fund-raising or something like that? she doubles him in ames. that s the kick in the te ....
Performance, the fact michele bachmann is stealing all his thunder. but to put it in their terms even will make fund raising that much harder. paw lenty comes through a new video this morning. in the hawkeye state this morning, the news is that as paw lenty told the des moines register his poll numbers in the state are lagging because this week is the first time i ve campaigned in earnest in iowa. okay. meanwhile, acting the front-runn front-runner, mitt romney met with british prime minister yesterday at 10 downing street during his fund raising trip to the uk. romney tweeted this picture of the two together. we ll see how that plays with some republicans that were concerned when mitt romney talked about social security protection in new hampshire. let s go to this jobs number. a surprisingly bad june jobs report, raising questions about whether the recovery has basically ground to a halt. 9.2% unemployment, hiring slowed to a trickle. ....