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WASHINGTON, Dec 6, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- While nothing has been announced, U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., appears to be in motion toward a 2008 presidential race bid, The Washington Post reports.
The newspaper noted how Clinton has been assembling a seasoned team of campaign advisers and contacting Democrats in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina, the four states with the earliest nominating contests in 2008.
"If you want to understand the process she is going through now, you need only look at the process she went through in 1999," Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson told the Post. "In that race, she reached out to elected officials, to potential donors (and) to policy experts and had lengthy serious meetings about whether she should run, the issues before the country, (and) what a campaign would look like."
Meanwhile, Lorraine Voles, Clinton's Senate communications director said her boss won't be rushed into a decision on whether to run.
"She's going to do this at her own pace, and what anyone else does is not going to affect her decision-making," Voles told the Post.
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