Southern Democrats are growing increasingly restless over the prospect of having Hillary Clinton head their party's presidential ticket in 2008 - and at least one of them is speaking out.
"I sure hope there are other people who would step forward," Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen told the London Times over the weekend. "People love [Clinton] or they hate her, and I don't know in the end how all that plays out."
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While surveys conducted by Northeastern pollsters continue to show that Clinton is her party's odds-on presidential favorite, Bredesen said the voters he knows are "kind of dissatisfied" with all the current Democratic 2008 prospects.
In a bit of wishful speculation, the popular Tennessee Democrat mused that the next Democratic standard-bearer "may well be someone that nobody has thought of."
"The sense I get is that people are really hunting around and looking for something different," he added.
When his quotes reached stateside on Monday, however, Bredesen began to backpedal, with his press secretary insisting to the New York Post, "He wasn't out to say anything bad about Sen. Clinton."
Bredesen might also be a candidate for president himself. He's a Democrat who governs like a Republican, and just might be able to get voters in the South to vote for him, unlike a former senator from Tennessee who could not even carry his own state.
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