Henry Olsen nailed it: Non-evangelical white blue collar voters in the MIDWEST and Latino voters were the difference. (firstthings.com)
But the economically disenfranchised blue - collar voters who put him in office don't care about the tech industry; they want to roll back the clock to a time before the internet, before automation in factories, before the flow of global goods, services, and capital made Silicon Valley wildly rich. (businessinsider.com)
A populist who inspires so little enthusiasm from actual voters that he drops out before the first ballot gets cast probably isn't the man to improve Mitt Romney's numbers with blue - collar voters in Ohio and Michigan — and absent that qualification, the argument for picking Pawlenty mostly evaporates. (firstthings.com)