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There's a lot of discussion about her powers and how they stack up to Naruto and Sasuke, but its really kind of irrelevant. Kakashi couldn't stack up to either of them and he was a Hokage, and Sakura is easily on par with Tsunade who was also a Hokage.

If the other two didn't exist, would she be a Hokage candidate? Maybe. Hard to say as we can't assume how she would've progressed without either of the boys. If we just juxtaposed the Sakura we know? Probably not. She really doesn't have a whole lot of leadership experience, and she doesn't have the same resume that Tsunade did, where she literally wrote the book on medical ninjutsu and then proceeded to teach a whole village how to do it.

Of course, if you look at their current roster, they also don't have many other ninja that could take on the role. The Rookie 9 are all pretty underwhelming when you compare them to Sakura.