People who are patently feeling out their presidential prospects claim not to be even thinking about that, when you know they've got to be humming "Hail to the Chief" in the shower. Over Christmas 2010, Mitt Romney's big family gathered 'round and cast ballots on whether he should run again for the Republican nomination. Reserved but politically savvy, Kelley Paul has stood in for him at campaign events and worked for a Republican consulting firm. Running for president is a heavyweight (and intoxicating) decision that gives some families pause. Cruz has been seen more often in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina than in the volatile border region of his own state since he won election as a senator in 2012. Cruz cheekily tweeted Google Map directions to the border to help President Barack Obama find it, but the senator hasn't been closer than 150 miles to the border himself since the child-migrant crisis began. Almost to a man and a woman, the people most being talked about as presidential candidates are building campaign-type travel schedules, meeting strategists and donors and doing most things they need to do to get ready, like writing memoirs. Gov.