Time Poll: Hillary Defeats GOP Contenders

Hillary Rodham Clinton is emerging as the most formidable non-candidate candidate heading into the 2012 presidential election.

A new Time magazine poll shows Clinton easily defeating the major Republican candidates, were she somehow to become the 2012 Democratic nominee for president, according to USA Today.

Clinton leads Mitt Romney, 55 percent to 38 percent; Rick Perry, 58 percent to 32 percent; and Herman Cain, 56 percent to 34 percent, among likely voters in a general election.

"The same poll found that President Obama would edge Romney by just 46 percent to 43 percent, Perry by 50 percent to 38 percent and Cain by 49 percent to 37 percent among likely voters," Time magazine wrote.

Clinton --- who lost the 2008 nomination fight to Obama -- says she has no interest in another White House run.