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By TOM RAUM, Associated Press Writer

 

WASHINGTON - The day that dropped the curtain on the 2004 presidential race raised one for the 2008 contest, with Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (news - web sites) and John Edwards (news - web sites) jockeying for advantage among Democrats and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist the first on the stage for Republicans.

 

 

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Bush 279 51%

Kerry 252 48%

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It's only four more years to go — minus a day. Who's counting? Lots of folks.

 

 

"You can be disappointed, but you cannot walk away. This fight has just begun," Edwards told Democratic loyalists in Boston in a concession speech that also could qualify as the leadoff stump speech of the next presidential campaign.

 

 

The Democratic decks are cleared with John Kerry (news - web sites)'s defeat, and Edwards and Clinton start off as early favorites within their party for 2008. Not that they — or Kerry — are talking about any plans so soon.

 

 

Since Bush cannot run again, the race is wide open on the Republican side as well, even more so than it would normally be. Usually the outgoing incumbent's vice president is the automatic favorite for the nomination. For instance, Democratic Vice Presidents Walter Mondale in 1984 and Al Gore (news - web sites) in 2000, Republican Vice President George H.W. Bush in 1988.

 

 

But Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites), who is 63 and has a history of heart disease, has ruled out a run on his own for president.

 

 

That leaves a potentially crowded field — including Sens. Frist of Tennessee, John McCain of Arizona, George Allen of Virginia, Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania and Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani (news - web sites), New York Gov. George Pataki and Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney — with no early favorite.

 

 

Frist wasted no time in putting himself into play, beginning a "victory tour" of the South on Wednesday that included stops in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina with victorious GOP Senate candidates.

 

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