Special Report: Pawlenty Drops Out

Despite his optimism immediately after the announcement of his placement in the Iowa straw poll, Pawlenty has decided that he will drop out of the presidential race, after all. He spent a lot of money campaigning in Iowa in hopes of winning, or at least placing higher than he did, in their straw poll and still turned up with sad results. He was hoping that the straw poll would give him a boost for the coming national campaign, but it did not.

He was asked if he would consider being someone else's running mate, but he said he won't even consider that. I guess if he can't be president, he's not going to settle for being vice president. Its all or nothing, dammit!

It should be noted that Pawlenty did not do the absolute worst out of all of those who got votes in the straw poll, including people who were write-ins and were not actually on the ballot. It's really the amount of money he spent there and the exposure he got there, and still managing to place the way that he did, that seems to have been the deciding factor in his dropping out.

He wished Michele Bachmann well, and she did the same for him.