Sen. Hillary Clinton’s supporters continued to press the Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama to include Clinton on the Democratic presidential ticket as his running-mate.

Reiterating her call for the former first lady to be invited to stand for veep, the Californian Senator Dianne Feinstein said, "Hillary Clinton is well known, certainly she had the popular vote in this election. That is something, and that is something tremendous. Now, I believe the [vice-presidential] nomination is up to [Obama]. I can't tell him what to do. Nobody else can tell him what to do. All I can say is I agree with [the Pennsylvania Governor] Ed Rendell, that if you really want a winning ticket, this is it."

According to a poll in USA yesterday, one in five Clinton supporters may switch over to John McCain, if Clinton is not offered veep ticket. Obama may to have difficulty attracting white, working-class voters who backed Clinton in large numbers during the primary contest.
 
When asked about the veep post, Clinton's campaign director, Howard Wolfson, said, "It is not a job that she's seeking, and it's not a job that she is campaigning for. But she has made it clear, during the campaign and now, that she will do whatever she can and whatever she is asked."

Meanwhile, Mr. Obama named a three-member team, headed by John F Kennedy's daughter Caroline to help him search his running mate. Some of the possible front-runners include Evan Bayh (former Governor of Indiana; served on both armed services and intelligence committees in the Senate), Joseph Biden (six-term senator and the Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations), Michael Bloomberg (mayor of New York), Wesley Clark (former NATO commander; staunch Clinton supporter), Hillary Clinton (former first lady; Obama’s rival), Chris Dodd (strong foreign policy credentials), Ed Rendell (outspoken Clinton supporter; Governor of Pennsylvania), Bill Richardson (New Mexico governor; Hispanic; strong foreign policy credentials as a former United Nations ambassador), and Kathleen Sebelius (two-term governor of Kansas).

Some other names include Jim Webb (former Secretary of the Navy), Tom Daschle (former South Dakota Sen.), John Edwards (former North Carolina Sen.), Tim Kaine (Virginia Gov.), Claire McCaskill (Missouri Sen.), Janet Napolitano (Arizona Gov.), Sam Nunn (former Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman), and Ted Strickland (Ohio Gov.).