Mike Pence Passes on 2012

Tip of the cap to Taegan Goodard and the team at Politicalwire as U.S. Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana, a favorite of conservatives, is taking a pass at the Republican presidential nod in 2012, though he may run for governor of the Hoosier State. While Pence showed surprising strength, even winning the Values Voter straw poll, he would have run against history. No member of the U.S. House of Represenatives has made the leap to the White House since James Garfield did it in 1880.