Hillary May Play In Iowa After All [View All]

WASHINGTON - Sen.
Hillary Rodham Clinton has begun calling political operatives in Iowa and New Hampshire to discuss her prospects in the 2008 presidential field, her first outreach to operatives in key states with early contests.

The New York Democrat began making calls to New Hampshire activists over the weekend and Iowa Democrats on Monday.

Gordon Fischer, a Des Moines lawyer who formerly chaired the Iowa Democratic Party, said he had gotten a message from Clinton's staff inviting him to dinner in Washington next week. Fischer said he would be unable to attend and did not know who else had been invited.

Clinton spoke to New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch last week, Democratic officials told The Associated Press.

Bonnie Campbell, a former Iowa attorney general who served in the Justice Department under President
Bill Clinton, said she spoke to Clinton twice on Monday. Campbell's husband, Edward Campbell, is a former chairman of the Iowa Democratic Party.

"It was highly exploratory about '08," Campbell told The Associated Press. "She knows a lot about Iowa. I have already told her I would support her. We've known her for a very long time."

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