Like a dope peddler on a dark, inner city block looking for junkies, Scott Rasmussen is back at it. He's giving poll addicts - jonesing since Nov. 2 - a new fix.

His Rasmussen Reports finds that Sen. Hillary Clinton would be starting off in the hole if she decides to run for president in '08:

If the next Presidential Election were held today, 46% of voters would vote for a generic Republican candidate over Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. A Rasmussen Reports survey found that 39% of voters would cast their ballot for Senator Clinton.

The reason? The dreaded gender gap:

The New York Senator holds a narrow 45% to 42% lead among women, but trails by 17 points among men.

That's OK: Another pro-Iraq War candidate started out slow during the last campaign, but still managed to pull out a win. And at this point in the '92 cycle, Sen. Clinton's husband was in single digits.