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Finding the Next Hillary

Posted May 18, 08 8:41 CDT in Politics 

(Newser) – With Hillary Clinton looking fated to remain a senator, the New York Times explores who could succeed her as a likely contender to become the first woman president. The candidate would have to be from the South or the West, a Democrat with red-state appeal or a Republican from the private sector, and a “fighter” with executive experience and grown children. One critical problem? "She may not exist,” writes Kate Zernike.

Some possibilities include Republican Gov. Sarah Palin from Alaska, and Obama supporters Gov. Janet Napolitano of Arizona and Gov. Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas. But with bias against a female candidate still a big hurdle, "it's going to be generations" before a woman takes the White House, said one analyst.

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Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano gives her State of the State address in the House Chamber of the State Capitol in Phoenix in this Jan. 14, 2008 file photo.   (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, file)
In this image made from video, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius delivers the Democrat response to the State of the Union at Cedar Crest, the Kansas Governors' mansion, in Topeka, Kan., Jan. 28, 2008.   (AP Photo/AP Television News)
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., speaks at a campaign rally in Frankfort, Ky., Saturday, May 17, 2008.   (AP Photo/David Kohl)
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin announces her endorsement of Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell, center, in his run for Alaska's congressional seat, March 14, 2008 at the state elections office in Anchorage, Alaska.   (AP Photo/Michael Dinneen)
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