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PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Tim Pawlenty ? "I'm very thankful for my red-hot smoking wife  the first lady of Minnesota " said Gov. Tim Pawlenty  pointing to his wife  Mary  who was standing a few feet away.
 With that  the Pawlenty road show began this weekend in Iowa  the place where presidential aspirations are born. It was Pawlenty's fifth visit in less than a year  one of many signs that he is working the state as intently as any prospective Republican presidential hopeful.
 road show began this weekend in Iowa  the place where presidential aspirations are born. It was Pawlenty's fifth visit in less than a year  one of many signs that he is working the state as intently as any prospective Republican presidential hopeful.
 While Pawlenty may not have millions of followers on Facebook like Palin or the personal wealth or name recognition of Romney  he has an invaluable form of currency here: proximity to Iowa.
 Minnesota  where he is finishing his second term as governor  borders Iowa on the north. And just like Obama  whose state adjoined Iowa on the east  Pawlenty can easily stop by  as he intends to do again next week for the Iowa State Fair.
 second term as governor  borders Iowa on the north. And just like Obama  whose state adjoined Iowa on the east  Pawlenty can easily stop by  as he intends to do again next week for the Iowa State Fair.
 Last weekend  he was surrounded by some of the state's best Republican talent. Sara Taylor Fagen  a White House political director for President George W. Bush  not only introduced Pawlenty to local activists but also was behind the wheel as she gave the Pawlentys a tour of her native northeast Iowa.
 Pawlenty  49  is presenting himself as a Main Street authentic conservative  who twice won statewide election as a Republican in a progressive state. He says Republicans need to shed the stereotype that their party is rooted solely in the country club and the board room. He mentions none of his potential rivals by name  of course  but it is not lost on Republicans that he is seeking to become an alternative to Romney.
 Pawlenty's visibility has grown in Republican circles since he was a finalist to be Sen. John McCain's running mate in 2008. Asked whether he benefited from not being chosen  Pawlenty paused for a moment and said  "It seems like Sarah Palin has done very well  having been selected."
 In addition to his Iowa trips  Pawlenty has visited New Hampshire  site of the first presidential primary  and has traveled across the country to help Republicans. He has raised more than $2.5 million for his Freedom First political action committee  some of which he is contributing to state and federal candidates.
 While Palin and Romney have made similar contributions  they have done so from afar. As Pawlenty said his goodbyes on the farm outside of Waverly  he pulled a $500 check from his pocket and presented it directly to Bill Dix  a candidate for the Iowa Senate.
 On a sultry afternoon  sweat was soaking into Pawlenty's white shirt as he spoke individually with nearly everyone in the crowd of about 100. (He positioned himself by the lunch buffet  so a handshake was an easy stop on the way to the barbecued pork  potato salad and baked beans.)
 His conversations and speeches were peppered with homespun one-liners  including the quip about his wife  which he has been telling Minnesota crowds for years.
 On why he believes Democrats have struggled creating jobs: "It's pretty tough to be pro-job and anti-business. That's like being pro-egg and anti-chicken. It doesn't work so well."
 He drew respectable applause at the picnic and a few hours later at fund-raiser for a Republican candidate in Cedar Rapids  where he had changed into a suit and tie. At each stop  he does not leave until the last hand has been shaken. But the congeniality does not mean that people will automatically sign on if he runs for president  a decision he said he would make early next year.

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Elo ? The NFL is unforgiving  and every team’s misfortune creates an opportunity for someone else. Atlanta and Carolina’s inconsistencies this year have allowed a familiar division foe to become relevant again: the New Orleans Saints. After a spell of mediocrity that saw the Saints finish with a 7-9 record in each of the past three seasons  Sean Payton’s team appear to be on the rise  for now. The Saints have climbed to sixth in our NFL Rankings  with an Elo rating of 1589. At 4-2 and atop the NFC South  the Saints now have a 73 percent chance of making the playoffs and a 56 percent chance of winning the division — both of which are the best chances New Orleans has seen this season.
Though the readers registered a net loss of 14.2 points in Week 7 of our NFL prediction game — in which we invite readers to try to outsmart our Elo algorithm — they tied for their most successful week to date this season. The biggest net win of the week for readers  which also happens to be readers’ biggest net win of the season so far  came in the Saints’ 26-17 win on the road over the Packers. The readers took advantage of  Elo’s  inability to account for teams’ injuries in  its  predictions and selected a surging Saints team over an Aaron Rodgers-less Packers team  gaining 20.4 points over Elo on that game.
The other double-digit net win for the readers came in the Jacksonville Jaguars’ shutout victory over the Indianapolis Colts. That means the Jaguars continued to haunt Elo for another week: Our algorithm now has a 1-6 record when predicting the outcome of games involving the Jags (that’ll teach us for joking about Jacksonville every week).
It’s not too late to try your luck against Elo  so make sure you make your Week 8 predictions.

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Gus Gillespie ? "If a guy comes in and he looks like a hunter and he talks like a hunter then you get a pretty good feel for it " says  Gus Gillespie  from behind the counter at the Alaska Fur Exchange.
 Gillespie  got into the horn and hide trade several decades ago after years with the Navy and as an engineer in the oil fields on Alaska's North Slope. Now he and his wife run the Fur Exchange  where on any given day  just past the rows of wolf and opossum pelts  are piles of antlers jumbled up like waist-high tumbleweeds. On the ground are plastic bins filled with spiky tines and plates sawed down into palm-sized strips. It is an astounding volume of animal matter.
"As far as antler  it's either crap and we don't want it  or it's really  really nice "  Gillespie  says with a laugh.
The four or five years since antler chews have become more popular with his customers have been good for  Gillespie 's business. Instead of trading predominantly in the large  high-end antlers favored by artisans and collectors  the store can now buy more medium-sized products to cut down into the chews they stock in baskets by the register.
But he has turned sellers away if he thinks the source material might have been illegally obtained.  Gillespie  points to the pervasive presence of substance abuse  and says  he  and  his  staff look for whether a person seems drunk  high  or in withdrawal as they assess a potential purchase.
"If it's questionable  we don't do anything with it for a while "  he  says. They might tell someone to come back in a few hours  pulling images of the person or their license plate from the numerous security cameras mounted around the store  sharing the information with police.
But anyone  he  turns away can just go to Craigslist—where every day in Alaska  plenty of people promise in all caps to pay up to $50 a pound in cash for antlers. And once they're cut down into the small chunks sold over the counter  nobody can really say whether they were stolen or not.

SOLUTION:
Neutral