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Apparently, even Hillary Clinton gets calls from telemarketers. (And yes, just like the rest of us, she cant stand them).

During a town hall at the Dover City Hall on Thursday, Clinton commiserated about telemarketing scams with a voter who stood up to ask what the Democratic presidential candidate could do to stop them.

Its really annoying. It's really annoying. I know, Clinton said. I mean, we have the same issue at home. It's really so annoying when you've told somebody I'm not interested, please don't call me, and they just kind of go through the cycle and they call you again and call you again, and all the rest of it.

The voter told Clinton that she was getting robocalls up to 20 times a day, despite putting her number on the national Do Not Call list, and was desperate for some help.

I've tried everything, the woman said. Short of me changing my phone number that everybody knows. I really don't want to do that. We have elderly, we have sick relatives, we have children that need to reach us, and this phone is constantly bouncing across the country.

Clinton, who said she had never before been asked about telemarketing, assured the woman she would look into it.

I dont know the answer, but I will try to find out if there is an answer, Clinton said.

Even so, the image of Clinton answering a telemarketing call over and over in her Chappaqua, New York, apparently left an impression.

Heres how we imagine Clinton will respond next time they call:

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This is an eight point increase in her unfavorable rate since an April AP-GfK poll was conducted.

A Washington Post-ABC News poll released just one day prior showed Clinton with a 45 percent unfavorable rating, but a 52 percent favorable rating.

There are two factors that may be driving the different ratings. First, polls conducted online, as the AP-GfK poll was, often find lower favorability ratings for well-known figures than most polling conducted via phone. This is partly because online polling makes it easier for respondents to say they don't have an opinion of the person they're asked about. For instance, in the ABC-Post poll, just 4% say they have no opinion of Clinton, compared with 11% in the AP-GfK poll. These differences often hit the positive side of any poll question more than the negative one.

Beyond the methodological differences, the storylines for each poll stem mostly from timing. The AP-GfK poll finds that Clinton's favorability ratings are down since April, shortly after she launched her campaign, without any data in the interim. The Washington Post-ABC News poll reports that her ratings are up since late-May, a time which marked a low point in Clinton's recent ratings in that poll and in others, including CNN/ORC data.

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The only other 2016 hopefully who rated higher in negative impressions among all Americans in the AP-GfK polls was Republican candidate Donald Trump with 58 percent.

The drop in Clinton's numbers appears to extend into the Democratic Party.

Seven in 10 Democrats gave Clinton positive marks, an 11-point drop from the April survey conducted by AP-GfK. Nearly a quarter of Democrats now say they see Clinton in an unfavorable light.

In the Washington Post-ABC News poll, Clinton's fellow Democratic candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders from Vermont, who has been rallying the masses at campaign events, had a 28 percent unfavorable impression among responders, but only a 27 percent favorable rating.

Republican candidates, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie were not far behind Clinton in negative impressions in the AP-Gfk poll, tied at 44 percent unfavorable ratings among all Americans. Christie had a 23 percent total favorable rating and Bush had a 31 percent favorable rating.

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Hillary Clintons Brooklyn campaign headquarters is finally ready for its close-up.

On Thursday, the campaign ended a three-month period during which its HQ was considered off the record to visitors and allowed POLITICO to tour and photograph the space.

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It has great views, said communications director Jennifer Palmieri, who on Wednesday posted online that tweeting, photos, visits now welcome! Her proclamation came after New York Times Magazine writer Mark Leibovich dinged the campaign for trying to keep its actual, physical workspace off the record.

After POLITICO asked for a tour, the campaign delivered on its promise the following morning, part of a new effort to engage with the national media that follows on the heels of Clintons first national television interview last week.

We want to make sure people can do their work, but otherwise were happy to have people come check it out, Palmieri said.

The original policy of prohibiting journalists from reporting on the campaign headquarters, she said, was misinterpreted as overly controlling. When people come in for meetings, you want the operation to continue to function and that if something is overheard, or a memo is seen, its not going to get reported on, Palmieri said. It seems like that was received the wrong way.

The Clinton campaign signed a lease on the 11th floor of 1 Pierrepont Plaza in Brooklyn Heights last April, and the campaign will expand to occupy a second floor in October.

Visitors are required to sign in on an iPad, and sign a confidentiality agreement. You agree not to disclose any Confidential information or any information derived therefrom to any third person and to take all reasonable precautions to protect the confidentiality of such Confidential Information with the highest degree of care, the statement reads.

By 10 a.m. Thursday, the open-plan office was teeming with staffers, volunteers and interns, many wearing official Clinton campaign apparel. Campaign manager Robby Mook and other senior officials were in their daily senior staff meeting when POLITICO arrived to photograph the office.

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WASHINGTON -- Hillary Clinton focused on the problem of stagnant middle-class wages on Monday in the first major economic policy speech of her presidential campaign.

In sweeping remarks at the progressive New School in New York City, the Democratic candidate said that higher wages are driven by strong, fair and long-term growth, offering policy proposals that fit into each of those three categories. Clinton praised the policies pursued by President Barack Obama, but suggested that more needs to be done to help middle-class families. Her message echoed themes espoused by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who has made her mark on the Democratic Party by arguing that the economy is rigged against the middle class.

Clinton's speech also name-checked three of the leading Republican presidential hopefuls -- former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio -- and criticized their economic philosophies.

At the beginning of her address, Clinton suggested that the economy is "not delivering the way that it should" for the middle class.

"It still seems to most Americans that I have spoken with that it is stacked for those at the top," Clinton said, criticizing the concept of trickle-down economics for concentrating wealth at the top while leaving middle- and lower-income Americans with less.

"Twice now a Democratic president has had to come in and clean up the mess left behind," she said, praising the economic records of her husband, former President Bill Clinton, and Obama. "We have to build a growth and fairness economy -- you can't have one without the other."

Though Clinton lauded Obama for saving the automobile industry, proposing new rules for overtime pay and passing the Dodd-Frank and Affordable Care Acts, the crux of the speech was that other policies that could further boost paychecks have yet to be enacted.

"The defining economic challenge of our time is clear: We must raise incomes for hardworking Americans so they can afford a middle-class life," Clinton said. "We must drive strong and steady income growth that lifts up families and lifts up our country."

Progressives have criticized the former secretary of state for not coming out against the Trans-Pacific Partnership being pushed by the Obama administration. While Monday's speech did not add to the remarks Clinton has already made on the subject, she did say that the expansion in global trade has hollowed out America's manufacturing industry. She added that the United States needs to "set a high bar for trade agreements" but also "be prepared to walk away" if the agreements don't meet the administration's standards.

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When Clinton launched her campaign in April, her staff -- armed with the list of 2.5 million email addresses from the former secretary of state's failed 2008 campaign -- hit send on their first 2016 message.

The realization they received shortly after that stunned them: Less than 100,000 of Clinton's 2008 emails addresses were still active and usable.

Teddy Goff, Clinton's top digital strategist, had thought going into the campaign that around 1 million of the 2008 emails would still be active. But the realization that only a fraction of those emails still worked was a slightly sour point on an otherwise "successful" day for the campaign, he said.

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"It wasn't as if we all kind of retreated into a bunker to drown our sorrows or anything like that," Goff said Wednesday. "In the midst of that day, discovering that we were really rebuilding a list virtually from scratch, it was a realization that there was going to be a tough road ahead."

To respond to this problem, Goff and the campaign launched what they dubbed The "Hillbuilder Project," an internal campaign push that urged all staff members to think about and act on how they could build the campaign's email list. Goff called building the email list the "the single highest priority, for now" on the tech and digital side of the campaign.

Signs were put up around the Brooklyn headquarters that read, "What are you doing to grow the list today?" Organizers in New Hampshire, Iowa and other states were urged to get emails from everyone they spoke with and add them to the database. And at an all staff meeting on June 12, the day before Clinton's first big rally in New York, campaign manager Robby Mook included list building as one of the campaign's top three priorities for the summer.

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"This is not just a digital thing," Goff said, "this is a campaign priority."

The campaign's goal, Goff added, was to provide "relevant content" and allow people to connect with the campaign so that they can "provide an experience that people are going to like."

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