Evidently, it is never too early to begin campaigning for the Presidency. Just ask these two politicians:

One of President Bush's most vocal opponents in the Senate is weighing a 2008 run for the presidency.

U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., told the Tiger Bay Club of Volusia County on Friday that he'll decide whether to run after "going around the country" working to return a Democrat to the White House.

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Democrats aren't the only ones jockeying for position. The GOP field could be just as wide open, leaving room even for a man from "liberal tax-achusetts."

The road to the 2008 Republican presidential nomination runs through Upstate South Carolina.

At least that's what Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and several other leading Republicans appear to be counting on.

A political action committee founded by friends and supporters of the Republican governor donated $43,000 to 57 state candidates and party organizations in the run-up to the 2004 election, according to filings at the state Ethics Commission.

More than 40 percent of that money, donated by the Commonwealth PAC, went to Upstate politicians and party organizations.

South Carolina, of course, is home to the first primary following Iowa and New Hampshire; it is also the state in which George W. Bush slowed John McCain's momentum en route to picking up the Republican nomination. Although Romney's bid began quite poorly with a lackluster speech at the 2004 Republican National Convention, money talks, and it appears as though he gave a lot of it to South Carolina pols.