Republican Presidential Race Is Reshaped as Pawlenty Exits

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The Republican presidential nomination fight for 2012 has been reset after a hard-fought straw-poll win, the entrance of a new contestant and the withdrawal from the race by Tim Pawlenty.

The former Minnesota governor announced today in an interview on ABC’s “This Week” program that he’s ending his campaign after finishing third yesterday in the Iowa Straw Poll.