It's hard to imagine Hillary Rodham Clinton not running for president again – and easy to imagine the result of such a decision: political chaos. 'It would be shocking,' says Tad Devine, a Democratic strategist who is advising Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont Democrat who is considering a presidential campaign himself. Early polling shows Clinton in a dominant position but at least ten other Democrats stand ready if she declines to accept her brass ring-in-waiting. Outside groups have been promoting her candidacy for more than a year. SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEOS WILL SHE? Hillary Clinton is still the odds-on favorite to coast to a Democratic presidential nomination, but the rest of the potential field is still waiting to see what she'll do
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Elizabeth Warren would emerge as the new standard-bearer for activists trying to elect the first female US president
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Joe Biden could look like less of an afterthought after eight years as vice president
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Jim Webb was secretary of the Navy under President Ronald Reagan and could appeal to war-hawkish centrist Dems
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Other long-shots, including an avowed socialist and a former Catholic missionary, could reclaim some of the oxygen Clinton has sucked out of the Democrats' room
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