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Eighty-five percent of Democrats want to see former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, the partys frontrunner for the 2016 presidential nomination, enter the race, compared to just 11 percent who say they dont want to see her run, according to a new poll from CBS News.

Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. was actually the only other potential Democratic contender to be rated one way or the other by a majority of Democrats; 40 percent want him to run and 38 percent say they do not.

But about eight-in-10 Democrats say they have not heard enough about either outgoing Maryland Gov. Martin OMalley or former Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia to say. Mr. Webb is the only candidate on the Democratic side to have taken formal steps toward a run in 2016, recently forming an exploratory committee as he weighs a bid.

But 71 percent say they havent heard enough about Sen. Bernie Sanders, Vermont Independent, to say whether they think he should run, and 65 percent say the same about New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Even Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who has risen to become a populist hero among progressive groups and has fended off pleas to enter the race from liberals, wasnt well known enough for 57 percent of Democrats to say either way. Twenty-three percent say theyd like to see her enter the race and 20 percent say they wouldnt.

The survey of 1,001 adults was taken from Jan. 9-12 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 6 percent among the results compiled form Democrats.

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Hillary Clinton run wanted by 85 percent of Democrats: poll