Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney leads the Republican Party's presidential bet for 2016 while the Democrats go for former State Secretary Hillary Clinton, according to a poll conducted by Fox News last Tuesday.

Romney garnered 19 percent of the votes among Republicans and was followed by former Florida governor Jeb Bush who came in with 10 percent. Other candidates did not reach a double-digit percentage mark leaving NJ Gov. Chris Christie, former governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee, and Senator Rand Paul at 8 percent.

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Ben Carson, a retired physician, and Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin both followed at six percent, while Sen. Ted Cruz from Texas came in at five percent.

Other possible candidates gained the four  percent to one percent including Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, Gov. John Kasich of Ohio, Gov. Rick Perry of Texas, and former senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania.

This was actually the very first time that Fox included the names of Carson, Huckabee, and Romney on the 2016 Republican sample ballot.

"Rumors about Romney running again are likely to get a further boost with these numbers," said Daron Shaw, a Republican researcher for Fox News.

The Democrats, on the other hand, appear to bestow their full support on their primary presidential bet, Hillary Clinton, giving her a 62 percent mark on the recently conducted poll. This is still, however, a minor setback from her 63 percent rate in July and 69 percent rate in April.

The fall seems to have benefitted Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren who got a 12 percent mark in the survey. This figure mirrors a three percent increase from her nine percent survey results last July, and a double shoot up from her April's six percent survey.

The poll conducted by Fox News was based on mobile and land line interviews that involved 1,043 registered voters who were chosen randomly from December 7 to 9 of this year.

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