Poll: Women see woman in White House

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- Most U.S. women think there will be a woman president in the next decade, and about a third think it'll be Hillary Clinton, a Lifetime Network poll indicates.

The poll, released Tuesday, is part of the network's Every Woman Counts campaign to engage women in the political process, the network said in a news release.

The survey indicates women favor likely Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois over his likely Republican challenger Sen. John McCain of Arizona, 49 percent to 38 percent with 6 percent indicating they were only leaning toward a candidate. Ten percent of women were undecided.

Forty-four percent of women polled said they thought the country would have a woman in the Oval Office within eight years, including 23 percent who said it will be in 2012, Lifetime said. Three in 10 indicate they believe Clinton, the U.S. senator from New York who challenged Obama during the Democratic primary, will be the first female president.

Results were compiled by interviews with 500 women by telephone July 25-29, plus an additional 100 women for several subgroup questions. The margin of error for the main sample is plus or minus 4.4 percentage points.