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Washington (CNN) -- New Hampshire remains Clinton country.

Sixty-two percent of Democratic primary voters in New Hampshire say that if the primary were held today, Hillary Clinton, the prohibitive favorite for the Democrats' 2016 presidential nomination, would be their top choice, according to a Bloomberg Politics/Saint Anselm College poll released Monday.

The number is a whopping 49 percentage points higher than second-place finisher Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont finishes in third with 6% and Vice President Joe Biden finishes in fourth with 5%.

Although Clinton has not declared her second run at the presidency, the former secretary of state has admitted she is considering a run and many close aides see a campaign as all-but-certain at this point.

New Hampshire has always been welcome ground for the Clinton family. Bill Clinton's surprising second place finish in the 1992 primary provided his campaign with a symbolic victory and re-energized the Arkansas governor as "The Comeback Kid." Likewise, in 2008, after finishing a disappointing third in the Iowa caucuses, Hillary Clinton used her New Hampshire primary win to right her campaign.

Despite her huge lead, even Clinton's most ardent New Hampshire supporters have cautioned her to not take the Granite State as already in the bag.

"Inevitability is not a message, it is not something you can run on. And in New Hampshire, we have a long history of (frontrunner) train wrecks," Terry Shumaker, a longtime Clinton aide in New Hampshire, said last week during a meeting of pro-Clinton Democrats.

Shumaker, who was with Bill Clinton when he filed his presidential bid papers in 1991, added: "As I caution all presidential candidates in New Hampshire, taking New Hampshire for granted is very dangerous. Last time I believe Hillary Clinton had an almost 30-point lead in the polls in our state in the summer and that lead melted like an ice sculpture on the mall in Washington in July."

Monday's poll, however, is not all good news for Clinton.

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WASHINGTON Does Jim Webb have what it takes to give Hillary Clinton a run for her money?

Webb thinks he does, and he fired his first salvo against her last week, announcing in a video on new campaign website that he had formed an exploratory committee as the first step in a possible 2016 run for the White House.

Without mentioning Clinton by name, the former Democratic senator from Virginia stated bluntly that government is paralyzed and that he wants to help not as a career politician, but as a public servant to re-establish a transparent, functioning governmental system in our country.

In my view the solutions are not simply political, but those of leadership, Webb said. I learned long ago on the battlefields of Vietnam that in a crisis, there is no substitute for clear-eyed leadership.

Obviously he is an incredible long shot, said Terry Madonna, who directs the Franklin and Marshall College Poll in Pennsylvania. But as sort of a moderate, more so a centrist, he will obviously have an appeal within the Democratic Party.

Plus, Madonna said, There are apparently some Democrats who are not willing to cede the nomination to [Clinton]. Conceivably she could have a real battle on her hands for the nomination by people who are saying, no, you are not just rolling away the nomination, its not necessarily yours.

A Marine Corps veteran, Webb, 68, earned two Purple Hearts, the Navy Cross, a Silver Star and two Bronze Stars in Vietnam. He is considered a blunt, independent-minded Democrat who is conservative on issues like gun rights, immigration and the military. But he is cautious on the use of military force overseas and he wields more of a progressive if not populist message on prison reform, income equality and reducing poverty.

He received a law degree at Georgetown University after Vietnam and authored several critically acclaimed war novels before serving as secretary of the Navy under President Ronald Reagan in 1987-88, a position he resigned from in protest of budget cuts. He was elected to the U.S. Senate as a Democrat in 2006, unseating Republican George Allen by less than 1 percent of the vote.

As a veteran and now somewhat of a blue dog Democrat, he has the street cred and experience to bring swing voters to the table, especially in the conservative South, said Donna Lorraine Barlett, a retired Army judge advocate general who lives in Georgia.

Webb was at the forefront in passing the sweeping reform of the GI Bill in 2008, and veterans consider him a champion of their issues. Coming from a family of citizen soldiers, he spoke strongly against the Iraq War before it was fashionable to do so and while his own son was fighting with the Marines in Ramadi.

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"(Hillary Clinton's) inevitability is not a message, it is not something you can run on," said a longtime supporter.

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New York (CNN) -- The stated purpose for a meeting of pro-Hillary Clinton Democrats in New York on Friday was simple: Recap the last year and discuss 2014 lessons that will apply in 2016's presidential election.

The much-talked about and more interesting purpose, however, was the realization that the pre-campaign that has existed around a likely Clinton candidacy for the better part of two years is soon coming to an end.

In the hallway, ballroom and press briefing room of the Ready for Hillary National Finance Council meeting, dozens of top flight Democrats, many of whom would make up the roster of a Clinton campaign, came together to discuss the future of what appears to be a likely run.

"They are pretty certain," Stephanie Schriock, the president of Emily's List and a possible Clinton campaign manager in 2016, said when asked whether session attendees thought Clinton would run.

Though many of the speakers at the strategy session regularly inserted caveats like "if she runs" or "hypothetically" into conversations with the press, the feeling of nearly everyone in the room was that Clinton is almost certainly running for president and will likely declare early in 2016.

"You can derive that by looking at what she has been doing," said Chris Lehane, the political director of Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign and a longtime Hillary Clinton adviser. "I think she has been doing everything you would do if you were going to give a serious look to running."

Lehane added that the reason many of the Democrats were in a New York City ballroom on Friday was because of those movements by Clinton, who for the last year has headlined high profile speeches, stumped for Democrats across the country and written a much ballyhooed book.

"A lot of people are taking their signals from that," the California-based political consultant said. "That is one of the reasons this gathering is taking place."

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