"The friendly phone calls are incoming, presidential wannabes are showering them with praise and their campaign accounts have been flooded with fat checks from people with names like Palin, Romney and Gingrich.
Members of Congress from South Carolina, Iowa and New Hampshire are once again getting wooed by the presidential set — and the potential candidates are reaching deep into those states' political rosters in search of that critical endorsement."
Courting begins in 2012 early states
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