Chris Christie is in 2nd place, even after so many right-wingers jumped on him and tried to pin Romney's loss on him. I am also surprised that Santorum and Palin don't poll in the top 3 among "most conservative"

An Ipsos Poll in the middle of December, 2004, right after Kerry's loss, Hillary led - with 33%.

From then on through 2005, 2006 and 2007, she led - but never above the high 40s percent-wise. Of course in late 2007, Barack Obama came out of nowhere and cobbled together a coalition of voting groups that denied Mrs. Clinton the nomination. But even when she led, it was in the 30s or 40s -- never at 61%! (Not with broad-field polling, never.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationwide_opinion_polling_for_the_Democratic_Party_2008_presidential_candidates

Wow. When you're polling comes in at 61%, you just might be...

Madame Inevitable!

throughout the party. Obama and his people, to their credit, were able to harness extra-enthusiastic support from three disparate groups - African-Americans, young people, and upper-middle class "iPad radicals" - to overwhelm Hillary's wider but more shallow support.

But back then, Hillary was never at 61% against the rest of the field, nowhere near it. The only way she could be beat is if someone else out there can put together a version of Obama's coalition again -- the candidate has to be African American (or possibly Hispanic) as well as young and cool. Is there anyone out there like that now? I can think of the Castros in Texas or even Corey Booker in New Jersey maybe, but considering their generally mayoral-level status, they are going to have to match Obama's meteoric rise in the 2004-2008 period - which looks to be impossible: this time eight years ago, after the 2004 election, Obama was a Senator-Elect!

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My money is On Cuomo/Clinton versus Christie/Warren.