Do Republicans stand a chance against Senator Tina Smith?

[Landslide Lyndon]

If Pawlenty runs he will be this cycle's Evan Bayh. A washed-up big name who hasn't ran a campaign for more than a decade and during the intervening years worked as a lobbyist for banks and credit card companies.
On top of that, Pawlenty was never really popular in Minnesota. He never took a majority of the vote statewide.