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Be like Jeb! A suburban agenda for Republicans, with models to emulate.
THE stories of Tim Pawlenty and Mark Green are, up to a point, similar. Both are Midwestern Republican ex-legislators, and both ran for governor. But Pawlenty succeeded--first in a hard-fought three-way contest for governor of Minnesota in 2002, and again in a narrow three-way contest in 2006--while Green fell short in his 2006 bid to unseat Democratic governor Jim Doyle in Wisconsin. A respectable case can be made that suburban voters accounted for the difference between their fates. Pawlenty won suburban majorities in both of his gubernatorial runs, with particularly large margins in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Green, a four-term congressman, managed no better than a ...
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