It really isn’t a surprise, but the latest poll shows Hillary Clinton leading the race for the 2008 Presidential nomination:
(CNN) — Recently re-elected Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York is twice as popular as her nearest Democratic rivals in the 2008 presidential race, according to a new CNN poll.
Clinton was favored by 33 percent of people asked who they were “most likely to support for the Democratic nomination for president in the year 2008.”
The poll, conducted by telephone Friday through Sunday by Opinion Research Corp., interviewed 530 registered voters who described themselves as Democrats or independents who lean to the Democratic Party. (Read the complete poll results — PDF)
Clinton was ranked first among 10 potential Democratic candidates. (Poll)
Second place for “likely” support was nearly even among Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois (15 percent), former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina (14 percent) and former Vice President Al Gore (14 percent), given the poll’s margin of error or plus or minus 4 percentage points.
Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, the Democratic nominee in 2004, lost support, dropping from 12 percent in late October to 7 percent in the latest poll.
Yes, that’s right, John Kerry is thinking about running for President again.
Meanwhile, Hillary, who faced only token opposition, spent more on her re-election campaign than any other Senate candidate this year:
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 ? She had only token opposition, but Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton still spent more on her re-election ? upward of $30 million ? than any other candidate for Senate this year. So where did all the money go?
It helped Mrs. Clinton win a margin of victory of more than 30 points. It helped her build a new set of campaign contributors. And it allowed her to begin assembling the nuts and bolts needed to run a presidential campaign.
So much for any New Yorkers who thought they were voting for a Senator who would actually be concentrating on their job for the next two years.
