WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts , the Democratic presidential nominee in 2004, won't make a second bid for the White House, sources familiar with Kerry's thinking told CNN Wednesday.
Since his 2004 loss, Kerry has struggled to gain support for his re-nomination within the Democratic Party.
In the latest CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll, less than one percent of Democrats said Kerry was their top choice for the 2008 nomination, and nearly half -- 51 percent -- did not want him to be the 2008 nominee.
The telephone poll was conducted January 19-22, 2007, and involved 467 registered voters who describe themselves as Democrats or independents who lean to the Democratic Party.
The poll's margin of error was plus-or-minus 4.5 percent.
This is not really a shocker to me. Kerry has had foot-in-mouth disease since his failed presidential bid and it is quite obvious to anyone that both Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Osama Obama have more momentum than Kerry and a better chance of carrying the party's nomination. The last thing the Democrats want is an expensive, bloody, three way nomination process.
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