- Hillary Rodham Clinton remains the frontrunner for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination in 2008, according to a poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. 28 per cent of respondents in the United States would like to see the New York senator as a candidate.

Illinois senator Barack Obama is second on the list with 20 per cent, followed by former North Carolina senator John Edwards with 11 per cent, former vice-president Al Gore with eight per cent, and 2004 presidential nominee John Kerry with seven per cent. Support is lower for Delaware senator Joseph Biden, New Mexico governor Bill Richardson and Wisconsin senator Russ Feingold—who has announced he will not seek the presidential nomination.

Rodham Clinton—a former first lady—has served in the U.S. Senate since 2001. On Nov. 7, she earned a new six-year term in the upper house, defeating former Yonkers mayor John Spencer with 67 per cent of all cast ballots.

Yesterday, Kerry said he is still considering a White House run in 2008, declaring, "I'm looking at it in the same way. The people that I have talked to across the country are—my team is confident and strong. I don't know what I'll do. (...) My decision would be somewhere around the turn of the year, beginning of the year."

In American elections, candidates require 270 votes in the Electoral College to win the White House. In November 2004, Republican George W. Bush earned a second term after securing 286 electoral votes from 31 states. Kerry received 252 electoral votes from 19 states and the District of Columbia

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Now I am going to read you the names of some possible candidates for the Democratic nomination for president in 2008. After I read all the names, please tell me which one you would most like to see nominated as the Democratic Party's candidate for president?

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