Romney is apparently communicating to early donors that he's going to skip the Iowa Caucuses in 2012. Romney gets to avoid an embarrassing loss in Iowa but it makes New Hampshire do and die as he will negative momentum after Iowa. Strikes me as a bad idea.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Romney, who is almost certainly running for president, sketched out a plan for early primary states to fundraisers this week, and, as a source points out, Iowa is quite noticeably absent from his priority list: