During that discussion, a student asked Ventura if he would consider running for the presidency. Ventura responded by saying that he didn't want to run, but the citizens of the country could still try to draft him into the race.

At the time, Ventura also reiterated his promise to Minnesota voters that he would serve out his term of office unless they said otherwise.

In an interview yesterday with a Minnesota radio station, Ventura seemed less sure about the possibility of him running.

"I'm the natural candidate to do it, but I don't want to do it. You gotta want the job," Ventura told WCCO-AM in Minneapolis. "I don't want the job; it's that simple. I do not want the job."

After being informed about Ventura's comments to the Current yesterday afternoon, Donna Donovan, the spokesperson for the Reform Party, said, the party welcomes competition for its nomination.

"If the Republicans have had eight or nine candidates, the Democrats have had quite a few, so why shouldn't the Reform Party?" she said.

Still, she noted, many Reform Party leaders have expressed doubt about Ventura.

"Many of the people in the executive committee feel that he hasn't demonstrated a high moral and ethical character that Reform Party has fostered and wants to see in it its leaders," she said.