The Next President of United States

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It's never too early to speculate.

Here are the contenders off the top of my head:

George Pataki (yuck)
Colin Powell (he should of ran last time, it will be harder now because of the Iraq WMD thing)
John McCain (it will be tough for him to get the conversative base to support him)
Rudy Giuliani (he did a great job in 9/11, but he turns me off with his arrogance)
Jeb Bush (the dynasty continues?)

Democrats:

slim pickings

Hillary Clinton (no way she would do well esp. with this election showing people are more conversative)
Barrack Obama (rising star, but too early I think)
John Edwards (can you say whiff)
Al Gore (you never know)
John Kerry (try try again)

I'm not really wild about any of these guys. Colin is great, but his wife will say no again.

Sigh, where have all our heros gone.

[CAG]

Rudy...I'd have voted for him in this election had been on the ticket.

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Hilary Clinton, Rudy Giuliani early favorites for 2008: Gallup poll

Tue Nov 16, - Former First Lady Hillary Clinton (news - web sites) is the early favorite among Democrats and ex-New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani the top choice among Republicans as the 2008 presidential nominees, according to the Gallup Poll Briefing.


Asked who they wanted on the top spot of the 2008 Democratic ticket, 25 percent of the Democrats surveyed cited New York Senator Clinton, Gallup said.


Fifteen percent chose Massachusetts Senator John Kerry (news - web sites), who lost the November 2 US presidential election to George Bush (news - web sites), while seven percent opted for Kerry's running-mate, John Edwards (news - web sites).


Senator-elect Barack Obama of Illinois was the choice of three percent and former vice president Al Gore (news - web sites) the selection of two percent, Gallup said.


Asked to choose between Clinton or Edwards, 55 percent chose Clinton while 39 percent opted for Edwards, it said.


On the Republican side, 10 percent put forward Giuliani, who earned praise for his leadership of New York following the September 11 attacks, and 10 percent went for Arizona Senator John McCain, who lost the 2000 Republican nomination to Bush.


Seven percent chose outgoing Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites), while three percent selected President Bush (news - web sites)'s younger brother Jeb Bush, the governor of Florida.


Asked to choose between Giuliani, McCain and Jeb Bush, 47 percent chose Giuliani, 27 percent McCain and 17 percent Jeb Bush.


The poll of 465 Democrats and Democrat-leaning independents and 505 Republicans was carried out November 7-10 and had a margin of error of plus or minus five points.