Christie Team Assessing 2012 Run

* NYT reports his political advisers are working to determine whether they could move quickly enough to set up effective political operations in Iowa and New Hampshire

* Challenges: raising money and spending it effectively - meeting filing deadlines, hiring staff members, recruiting volunteers, putting together a travel schedule, devising a media campaign

* They say it’s just “due diligence’ and no formal planning will begin unless he decides to run

** Those pushing him include Rupert Murdoch, Henry Kissinger, Nancy Reagan and William Kristol

** He’s under a lot of pressure and political strategists say the next week to 10 days is key and he needs to decide then

** His weight has become a public issue - but with so many Americans overweight or obese, maybe they’d see him as an everyman?

* Herman Cain says he’s too liberal and conservative voters won’t like his positions on immigration, climate change and immigration