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What word starts with "pro", ends with "ive", and means generally-accepted or -expected

A front page article in USA Today this morning refers to Hillary Clinton as the "prohibitive Democratic front-runner." I know that prohibitive is the wrong word here, but I can't remember the right one, which I am sure also starts with "pro" and ends with "ive", and means something like generally-accepted or generally-expected. What's the word the writer was trying for here?