Instead of answering directly, Sen. Clinton suggested the question was a diversion:

"I am focused on winning re-election," she told host Judy Woodruff. "That is what I work on every single day, just as I have worked my heart out for the last four years. And I'm going to continue doing that every day, and I'm not going to get diverted."

A Quinnipiac University survey of New Yorkers earlier this month found that by an overwhelming margin - 60 percent to 30 percent - they want Clinton to take the full-term pledge and not run for president in 2008. Fifty-one percent don't want her to seek the White House even if she doesn't run for a second Senate term.

In her comments to CNN, Clinton also boasted that her party is responsible for lifting America out of the 19th century.

"The Democratic Party is responsible for most of the progress of the 20th century," she told Woodruff. "It is the Democratic Party that fought and stood for democracy and freedom."

She continued:

"It is the Democratic Party that created the ladders of opportunity that enabled millions of people to lift themselves into the middle class and fulfill their God-given potential. And it is the Democratic Party that battered down the obstacles that stood in the way of women and minorities and others having the opportunity to fully participate in American life."

Republicans, on the other hand, "want to turn the clock back," Clinton said.

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