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By Ira Boudway

January 27, 2012 at 2:45 AM UTC

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This article is part of the January 30, 2012 issue of businessweek.

Candidates love the bragging rights that come when luminaries endorse them for President. But for every Nancy Reagan there are scores of … not Nancy Reagans, hoping to glom some free publicity by attaching themselves to a man who would be President. A C-list tour of the GOP field.