Uh, governor, the place to make such a statement is anywhere but Iowa:
Jindal to Iowa: I’m not running for president
Strictly speaking, of course, this is ok – governor Jindal is running for re-election as governor of Louisiana at the moment, and as that election happens prior to 2012, its all good. Meanwhile, however, Jindal isn’t coming in top ranked in GOP enthusiasm at the moment:
Republicans and Republican-leaning independents are most interested in seeing Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, and Mike Huckabee run for the party’s presidential nomination in 2012. Those three received the highest scores among the 10 possible candidates evaluated in a recent Gallup Panel survey.
GOPers are clearly not blaming Palin for the loss – and rightly so; without Palin it would have been a bigger loss. McCain was crushed when the financial crisis hit and, in hindsight, all the effort post-crisis was towards lessening the loss, and in this Palin did far more than McCain. Jindal, on the other hand, is still my early favorite, though his numbers are much weaker than Palin’s – on the other hand, he’s not nearly as well known as Palin and it could be that once people get a good look at him, his numbers will rise.
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