* 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