onservativecredentials with an eye on winning in Iowa, is gambling onmaking a hit early in the Midwestern state and carrying thatmomentum into the rest of the race.
"This is Pawlenty putting a lot of eggs in one basket, buthe needs to," said David Peterson, an associate professor atIowa State University. "It could be over pretty quick forPawlenty if he doesn't do well here and that isn't the case forany other candidate."
Pawlenty on Monday tried to dampen expectations about howmuch cash he will raise.
"We will not be the money champion in the race to startwith. My friend, Mitt Romney, will be the front-runner in thatregard," he told NBC's Today show
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Nevertheless, Pawlenty has attracted top political campaigntalent in Iowa, Jacobs said, who are "pulling down bigpaychecks. Pawlenty needs to be careful he doesn't create theMcCain mistake," Jacobs said.
Republican Senator and presidential candidate John McCainwas forced to downscale his campaign after spending lavishly in2007, laying off staffers and damaging morale.
This time, Republican candidates are struggling to keep upwith Obama
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Pawlenty formally launched his presidential attempt with aspeech in Des Moines
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The Republican race for money is slow going
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Romney's fund-raising political action committee raisedabout three times as much as Pawlenty's during the 2010election cycle
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"You basically have Romney head and shoulders aboveeveryone else," said Anthony Corrado, a government professor atColby College in Maine. "The question is which of thecandidates will be in the position by the end of this year toraise the $25 million to $30 million they will need for Iowaand New Hampshire."
Romney is well on his way there, having raised more than$10 million last week alone at a "dialing for dollars"fund-raiser.
"The challenge for Governor Pawlenty is he's a new face innational politics. He had no preexisting network (of funders)or personal wealth. He's spent a lot of time introducinghimself to Republicans around the country." said Alex Conant,spokesman for the campaign. (Additional reporting by Ros Krasny and David Morgan; Editingby Cynthia Osterman)
The senior Republican on the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee cast doubt on Tuesday on the Obama administration's assertions that the Pakistani Taliban orchestrated the attempted car bombing in New York on May 1.
Senator Kit Bond, after a briefing by U.S. counterterrorism and law enforcement officials, said it was not confirmed the accused bomber -- Faisal Shahzad, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Pakistan -- was working for the Islamist group.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said on Sunday evidence showed the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakist
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