Minnesota voters have mixed feelings about Governor Tim Pawlenty these days, and just 38% say they’d vote him if he wins the Republican presidential nomination in 2012. That’s down four points from November.

A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely voters in the state finds that 50% say they would not vote for Pawlenty if he’s the Republican nominee that year. Eleven percent (11%) are undecided.

A plurality (48%) of male voters in the state say they would vote for Pawlenty, while 55% of female voters say they would not. But first things first. Pawlenty has to win the Republican nomination for starters, and the good news for him is that 72% of Minnesota Republicans say they would vote for him in 2012. Just four percent (4%) of Democrats say the same, and voters not affiliated with either party are narrowly divided.