A new Minnesota Public Radio-St. Paul Pioneer Press poll finds about half of those polled think Governor Pawlenty is doing a good or excellent job. That's about the same as in a February poll by the same organizations. But the number of people rating his performance "poor" more than doubled, rising from 8 to 17 percent. Craig Grau is a political science professor at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, and he's on the line now. That is Craig Grau, a political science professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth.