At 6.30 on a beautiful spring evening, 12 people have gathered at the Knickerbocker restaurant in Greenwich Village. On the table, between the white wine and the finger food, are blue bumper stickers which say: "Hillary for President." These people have organised themselves, via the internet, so that they will be ready when she announces her candidacy.

The "New York for Hillary" group met for the first time last month with just four people. This month there are 12, and it expects to grow. The group was started by Alfred Schreiber and his wife, Suri Harris. Some of the people who have come are friends, others just saw it on the net. Some are newly signed Democrats.

Faye says that she is an independent and that she hasn't made up her mind yet, but she is "very interested" in Hillary Clinton. They all think that the country is off track, and want to get rid of George Bush.

Harris ticks off her checklist of why Clinton would be a good president. Number one on her list is: time for a new government. Number three is that she is the most experienced candidate, with eight years "beside the president".

None of them seems at all fazed by the fact that the election is more than two years away, and their candidate has not even declared herself yet. In fact, it's hard to find anyone who doesn't think that, at the very least, Clinton is the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination in 2008.

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