The super-PAC named Ready for Hillary, designed to “draft her,” has been vacuuming up dollars and big-name endorsements since it formed in January, including loyalists and veterans like James Carville, Harold Ickes and former Rep. Ellen Tauscher (Calif.). Last month, a National Finance Council was created by the political action committee, headed by former White House political director and senior adviser to Bill Clinton Craig Smith. Ready for Hillary is no effort of grassroots groupies but a proudly, unsubtle campaign in waiting.

Clinton herself is endorsing the effort by actively engaging in presidential foreplay as well. When she left the State Department in January (and when Ready for Hillary launched) she was recovering from a blood clot in her brain. She needed sleep, and there were book and speech deals to pen, not to mention another new haircut to get. But hermit no more, Clinton recently made her Twitter debut, complete with flirty “TBD” at the end of her resume. She spoke last week at the Clinton Global Initiative, and adoring rallies by supporters follow wherever she goes, arranged by Ready for Hillary.

Democrats are not wondering what Hillary’s plans are, but working out when they should jump on the bandwagon. Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri, an early Obama supporter who has clashed with the Clintons, made her jump on Tuesday, telling The New York Times “a lot of us are using every tool in our tool kit to try and convince her that she should step out and be the nominee of our party.”