The Hill News

The White House is not discussing the possibility of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton joining President Obama's reelection ticket as vice president in 2012, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Wednesday.

"No one in the White House is discussing this as a possibility," Gibbs told CNN. 

Speculation mounted that Clinton could replace Vice President Joe Biden when Obama runs for reelection after veteran Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward said in an interview Tuesday that the arrangement is "on the table." 

"It's on the table," Woodward said in an interview Tuesday on CNN. "Some of Hillary Clinton's advisers see it as a real possibility in 2012."

Some have speculated that Biden could would vacate his post in 2012, but the White House has generally dismissed that speculation.

An Obama-Clinton ticket would unite the two former rivals who ran a down-to-the-wire race in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary.

A recent Gallup poll also sparked talk th! at Clinton could re-enter presidential politics in the next re! election cycle. Fifty-two percent of Democrats said they would vote for Obama in a hypothetical Democratic primary rematch against Clinton, opposed to 37 percent who say they would vote for Clinton.