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As Democrats close to Hillary Clinton recover from their New Year's Eve celebrations and flip their calendar to 2015, many will notice a seemingly unimportant date is fast approaching.

For months, pro-Clinton Democrats have pointed to early January -- particularly Jan. 15 -- as a symbolic date for Clinton's presidential aspirations. In conversations with one another and at strategy sessions about a possible 2016 run, former aides and confidants have quietly said that if Clinton doesn't say "no" to running by the start of 2015, she is a go for 2016.

"If she hasn't said 'no' by January, it will be a sign she is running," said one longtime Clinton friend at last month's Ready for Hillary strategy session in New York.

The early January time frame is regularly used by Clinton supporters as a way to put off directly answering the will she/won't she questions posed by reporters. While the date itself is not totally significant, it has become a shorthand for early January. With that time frame now approaching, some in Clinton's orbit are admitting that time is running out for Clinton to say "no."

"If she is not going to do it, she can't let it drag on after January 15," said a Democratic strategist close to Clinton. "If she hasn't said something after that date, people should assume she is running."

The strategist, who said this was the general sense among people close to Clinton, added, "She has two weeks to say she isn't running."

The reason is simple: Clinton has, so far, sucked up all the oxygen in the Democrats' 2016 conversation. If she lets that continue well into 2015 and then decides to back out, she puts her party -- which already has a thin bench of second tier candidates -- in a tough position.

While chatter about former Sen. Jim Webb, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Vice President Joe Biden have bubbled up throughout late 2014, neither have caught fire in the polls. The latest CNN/ORC poll finds Webb at a paltry 1%, Warren in second place with 9% support and Biden in third at 8%. Hillary Clinton, by comparison, is at 66% support.

Because of the uncertainty around her announcement date, groups urging Clinton to run intend to continue their work well into 2015. Ready for Hillary, the grassroots super PAC organizing on Clinton's behalf, has events planned well into March but plans to close shop once Clinton announces. Groups like Correct the Record, a communications and research shop, and Priorities USA, a fundraising and ad buying outfit, have both pledged to ramp up in early 2015.

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(CNN) -- Hillary Clinton takes the top spot on a list of admired living women for the 13th year in a row, according to an annual survey released by Gallup on Monday.

President Barack Obama, meanwhile, is considered the most admired living man in any part of the world.

When asked to name a woman they've heard or read about and admire, 12% mentioned Clinton, the former secretary of state, New York senator and first lady.

Eight percent said Oprah Winfrey, 5% said Nobel Peace prize winner Malala Yousafzai, and 4% said first lady Michelle Obama.

Other names mentioned included actress and humanitarian Angelina Jolie (2%), former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (2%), Princess Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge (2%), Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts (1%), and former first lady Laura Bush (1%).

Clinton, who's considered the Democratic frontrunner if she runs for president in 2016, has also held the top spot in 17 of the past 18 years. Laura Bush was considered the most admired woman in 2001, not long after the 9/11 attacks.

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New Yorkers arent eager to ring in the new year with politicians but if they had to, theyd rather hang with Hillary Clinton than with the mayor or governor.

The former secretary of state is the New Years date of choice for 37% of New York voters in a Quinnipiac poll released Monday.

That gave her a wide lead over both Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio only 8% of voters were interested in toasting 2015 with either of them.

But 45% of New Yorkers said no thanks to all pols.

Would you like to toast the event with the man in the Governors Mansion? Very few say yes. The man in Gracie Mansion? Not too many takers for that either, said Maurice Carroll, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll. Their favorite New Years date would be the lady from Chappaqua.

Clinton, the likely Democratic front-runner in the 2016 presidential race, fared better with her own party than Republicans.

Only 15% of GOP supporters wanted to sing Auld Lang Syne with Clinton, compared to 52% of Democrats.

New York Citys progressive mayor would be the best New Years date for only 2% of Republicans polled, compared to a still-not-impressive 12% of Democrats.

Cuomo was the only Democrat who got love from the opposing party: 11% of Republicans said they would most like to spend New Years with Cuomo, compared to 8% of Democrats.

Meanwhile, a new Gallup poll found that President Obama and Hillary Clinton are the most admired Americans.

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