Haley Barbour’s 2012 Chances – Newsweek.
In potentially very crowded GOP ’12 field, with fierce competition for a handful of niche profiles, Barbour, as a Governor with Republican Establishment ties trying to de-emphasize social issues, stands as a rival to a potential Mitch Daniels campaign.
UPDATE: Barbour announced today he would not be a candidate in 2012. See article by Politico from this afternnon http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/53670.html From that article “…The move may increase the likelihood that Mitch Daniels — the Indiana governor and Barbour’s close friend — will indeed run, despite little campaign activity on his part. Both had indicated in the past that they did not want to run against each other and seemed to have a one or the other philosophy…”
