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YOUR GUIDE TO A CROWDED FIELD
UPDATED JAN. 25
Some are in, some are still flirting with running. Here's where the candidates stand
 
CANDIDATE CAMPAIGN STATUS PERCENTAGE WHO HAVE NEVER HEARD OF THE CANDIDATE PERCENTAGE WITH A FAVORABLE VIEW* OF CANDIDATE PERCENTAGE WHO WOULD DEFINITELY SUPPORT* THE CANDIDATE IN ELECTION PERCENTAGE WHO THINK IT'S LIKELY THAT THE CANDIDATE WOULD WIN* THE '08 ELECTION VISITS TO N.H. NUMBER OF BLOG POSTS LINKING TO CANDIDATE'S WEBSITE BETTER'S ODDS
SENATOR HILLARY CLINTON (NY) Has formed exploratory committee 0 3,204
hillaryclinton.com
11:8
LOOKING BACK ON THE WAR IN IRAQ      "Obviously, if we knew then when we know now ... I certainly wouldn't have voted that way"

AMAZON SALES RANK OF MOST RECENT BOOK      Living History 3,646

APPEARANCES IN PEOPLE MAGAZINE      9
SENATOR BARACK OBAMA (Ill.) Has formed exploratory committee 1 3,437
barackobama.com
7:1
LOOKING BACK ON THE WAR IN IRAQ      "All the troops in the world won't be able to force Shia, Sunni, and Kurd to sit down"

AMAZON SALES RANK OF MOST RECENT BOOK      The Audacity of Hope 5

APPEARANCES IN PEOPLE MAGAZINE      1
JOHN EDWARDS Former N.C. Senator Officially in the race 9 1,586
johnedwards.org
11:2
LOOKING BACK ON THE WAR IN IRAQ      "I was wrong ... It was a mistake to vote for this war in 2002"

AMAZON SALES RANK OF MOST RECENT BOOK      Home: The Blueprints of Our Lives 52,789

APPEARANCES IN PEOPLE MAGAZINE      1
AL GORE Former Vice President No formal decision yet 0 139
algore.com
14:1
LOOKING BACK ON THE WAR IN IRAQ      "This is an utter disaster ... the worst strategic mistake in the entire history of the U.S."

AMAZON SALES RANK OF MOST RECENT BOOK      An Inconvenient Truth 139

APPEARANCES IN PEOPLE MAGAZINE      6

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* Among respondents who had heard of the candidate.
SOURCES AND NOTES: The TIME poll was conducted Jan. 22-23 among 1,064 randomly selected registered U.S. voters by SRBI Public Affairs.
The margin of erros is ±3 percentage points.Visits to New Hampshire are since November 2004 according to Democracy in Action;
PEOPLE magazine figures are since Jan. 1, 2006;blog posts are from Technorati.com statistics as of 12:30 p.m. Jan. 24;
book sales are from Amazon.com; betting odds for winning are from British oddsmaker William Hill.

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