Scott Brown outpolls Pawlenty among GOP voters
A poll released today by Newsmax-Zogby shows Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney leading in a hypothetical 2012 primary, but there's an interesting result if you read farther down.
Sen.-elect Scott Brown of Massachusetts is outpolling Gov. Tim Pawlenty in this survey of GOP voters. Brown gets 5.2 percent while Pawlenty is at 4.9.
Palin was at 22 percent followed by Romney at 19 and Newt Gingrich at 12 percent.
There aren't any details about the polling methods in the story, and clearly a lot of what's showing up here is name recognition. But at the very least it looks like Pawlenty is still a relative unknown among Republican voters nationally.
And of course the governor hasn't said for sure whether he intends to run in 2012.
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