Fred Thompson will be at the Iowa State Fair today, walking around grab-handing for a campaign that has yet to become a campaign.
The state fair is where Fred Thompson will make his public Iowa campaign debut on Friday, but private meetings in the morning could be just as, if not more, important to his ultimate political strength here.
In the private meetings, Fred will be talking with some politically active Iowans and later some state legislators. But this isn’t a campaign. That’s important to remember.
Thompson walks a careful legal line – he can’t directly ask for support because doing so would cross the line between testing the waters and being an official candidate, which would bring more stringent fund-raising and spending rules into play.
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