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Hillary Clintons presidential campaign late last week obtained access to the full Ready for Hillary email list, a data gold mine that will immediately bolster the Democratic front-runners fundraising and organizing efforts.

The campaign gained entry to the independent super PACs list through a swap with another independent group, a Democrat with knowledge of the list told POLITICO, and is expected to begin emailing it immediately. The source declined to identify the other group.

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Access to the list of close to 4 million names came after senior campaign officials admitted they were relying in part on an outdated supporter list from 2008. For two years, Ready for Hillarys primary purpose was to create a plug-and-play list of supporter names, with contact information, that represented an energized base of people who could be tapped for money or volunteering.

But for the first six weeks of Clintons 2016 presidential campaign, that data trove was unavailable and tied up with lawyers reviewing the options available to the campaign: they could trade an old list for the new list, or rent a la carte pieces of the list like, for example, names of volunteers in Iowa they would need before a campaign stop there. Eventually, however, the campaign decided it was easier to have access to the entire list.

I could offer about 4 million reasons why the Ready for Hillary list is an important resource, said Tracy Sefl, a Democratic strategist who served as a senior adviser to the independent super PAC before it shut down.

To understand why access to the list is so important, consider the recent experience of Lynette Hull, a 17-year-old high school student from Las Vegas who was one of the first interns to sign up with the campaign after Clinton announced she was running.

A national honors society student at Liberty High School, Hull was quickly put to work phone-banking working through an old database of Clinton supporters to sign up new volunteers.

The work proved time-consuming and unproductive. Its a lot of no pickups, Hull said of her experience. I recently did about 60 phone calls about 20 picked up, and a lot of those said they were too old to get out and volunteer.

There is some overlap of the Ready for Hillary list and the campaigns own list of supporters. For starters, when Clinton officially announced her presidential bid six weeks ago, Ready For Hillary emailed its list six times, encouraging them to sign up with the official campaign. Clinton staffers have also been signing up new supporters in the early states on their own.

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These are strange timesfor HillaryClinton.

Reportedly prepared to embrace and acknowledge the historic nature of her quest for the White House, this week candidate Clinton engaged in a particularly awkward and complicated political dance. Clinton, a second-wave feminist minted in Illinois and refined at Wellesley College and Yale Law School, is a former secretary of state, former senator and first lady who changed the rules of that last job, leading a contentious and ultimately failed effort to create a national health-care system during her husband's presidency. Clinton is a woman of substance. And, in South Carolina this week, she has been a woman eager to highlight her work ...to support, to assist and to aid Barack Obama in his own historic presidency.

Speaking to an audience of Democratic women in South Carolina on Wednesday -- many of whom the New York Times described as black -- Clinton joked aboutthe at-times-rancorous 2008 South Carolina primary in which shefaced then-candidate Obama. Then, she tried to make nice in a way that the campaign apparently believes will work.

I went to work for him as secretary of state because he and I share many of the same positions about what should be done in the next presidency, Clinton told the crowd, according to the New York Times.

Clinton, potentially the nation's first female president, was there to make it clear: She would be a good president because she supported and assisted Barack Obama and is ready to continue his work.

As the Times also noted, though, Clinton assiduously avoided any mentions of race or the nature of her 2008 campaign's clashes with the Obama camp. Back then, Bill Clinton angered some Obama supporters and some committed Democrats who were Clinton supporters when he described Obama's opposition to the Iraq war asthe biggest fairytale I've ever seen.Hillary Clinton irritated some with comments that seemed to minimize the contributions of Martin Luther King Jr. to civil rights reforms and emphasized the role of President Lyndon B. Johnson instead.

Both Clintons have described the reaction to their comments as overblown, misinterpreted and taken out of context. They have denied that they contained any racial subtext.

But the comments were understood by some in South Carolina where a substantial share of the electorate isAfrican American, very differently. When the primary was over and Obama had won, longtime Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.), who is black, told The New Yorker, "It's pretty widespread now that African Americans have lost a lot of respect for Bill Clinton."

That was the Clinton campaign that at least some of the Democratic women at Wednesday's event remembered when Clinton came to South Carolina this weekand gave a speech using a Southern twang that caught a little attention. And it's against that backdrop that what Clinton had to say in South Carolina this week was less a concession to anyone's ideas about the proper or traditional role of women asit was to say, I know. Barack Obama won. I supported his agenda and did work for Obama around the world. I'm an ally. Now, I'd like to lead.

That work was necessary in South Carolina in a way that it probably won't be elsewhere, because of the 2008 controversy.

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Story highlights Hillary Clinton will be in South Carolina for the first time since she announced 2016 campaign Clinton was damaged after a racially charged South Carolina battle against Obama in 2008

Rita Outen remembers everything that happened here the last time Clinton made her case for the presidency, slogging through a bitter and racially charged primary contest against Barack Obama in 2008.

Standing in the aisle of Reid Chapel A.M.E. church one recent afternoon, the retired nurse ticked off the lowlights: the "Jesse Jackson thing," when Bill Clinton seemed to dismiss Obama's victory in the state by noting the reverend won South Carolina twice without making it to the White House. And the time when Hillary Clinton accused Obama of working closely with a slumlord.

"There was also that fairy tale comment," Outen said, recalling yet another Bill Clinton gaffe from the campaign that was interpreted as an effort to diminish the man who would become the first African-American president.

Obama routed Clinton 55% to 27% in the 2008 primary, when she won just one of South Carolina's 46 counties -- a drubbing that sparked shouting matches between old friends and fears of a permanently fractured party. It left many African-Americans feeling disenchanted about the Clintons, a political couple adored by many minorities during their years in the White House.

The Southern test for Clinton now centers on whether she can move past the wounds of that campaign. In the past few months, Clinton's team has moved aggressively -- if quietly at times -- to heal lingering damage from 2008 and solidify black support in early states and among prominent African-Americans.

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For now, Clinton is enjoying some goodwill. Outen, for instance, voted for Obama in 2008 and despite what she called the "nastiness" of that race, she now says she's a Hillary Clinton supporter.

"When you run for political office, everybody makes statements you shouldn't make and some of the statements back then were derogatory," recalled Outen. "At first, my support was a little wavering, but you get over it. She now has a chance to redeem herself."

Shortly after Clinton lost in 2008, Rep. Jim Clyburn got an angry phone call from Bill Clinton, who blamed him for the defeat in part because he didn't endorse the former first lady. Seven years later, tensions have calmed and the divisions that were feared haven't come to pass, Clyburn said.

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Story highlights Hillary Clinton has faced controversy over keeping her State Department emails on a personal server Errol Louis: More damaging may be the potential conflicts revealed in the emails that are being released

The emails demonstrate that one of Clinton's main assets as a presidential candidate -- the alliances and personal connections she has painstakingly built over decades spent at the highest levels of government service -- can also be her greatest weakness.

Errol Louis

At least a dozen of the 296 emails made public are detailed missives from Sidney Blumenthal, a talented writer and ferocious partisan warrior who has been a defender of the Clinton family since Blumenthal, as a journalist, began writing one favorable analysis after another about then-Gov. Bill Clinton of Arkansas as he emerged on the national stage.

Blumenthal eventually traded in his press card for a White House pass, becoming a high-ranking adviser and speechwriter for the President though his impeachment and beyond, and authoring a book, "The Clinton Wars," detailing his days battling in the political trenches for Bill and Hillary.

As an adviser to Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign, Blumenthal did enough damage during the bruising primary against Barack Obama that the administration later reportedly barred him from working for Clinton at the State Department.

Fast forward to 2012: the recently released emails show Blumenthal was back on Clinton duty at the height of the crisis that engulfed Libya in the chaotic months following the 2011 overthrow and death of ex-dictator Moammar Gadhafi, sending a stream of detailed memos to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about the ins and outs of the power struggle among Libyan leaders seeking to replace Gadhafi.

Blumenthal's missives featured information on what he called private statements and thoughts of Yussef el Magariaf, a well-known leader of the opposition to Gadhafi who eventually became president of Libya's General National Congress and served as de facto leader of the country for about a year.

Clinton forwarded many of Blumenthal's emails for circulation to Jake Sullivan, her deputy chief of staff, who in some cases copied and pasted the information before sending it to top State Department officials as coming from "HRC friend," according to the New York Times.

Clinton made time to act on Blumenthal's information even in periods of emergency; Blumenthal even sent (and she circulated) emails on September 12, 2012, the day after a mob destroyed the U.S. consulate in Benghazi and killed American personnel, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens.

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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton took a short break from the campaign trail today to participate in her favorite Memorial Day tradition: the annual New Castle Memorial Day Parade in Chappaqua, New York.

Clinton, who loves the parade (like really, really, really loves it), was joined this year by her husband, Bill Clinton -- marking their first public appearance together since the announcement of her presidential campaign.

The two arrived in Clintons famous Scooby van just before 11 a.m., when the parade was scheduled to start, and were instantly swarmed by crowds of locals, young and old, clamoring for a moment with their towns most famous couple.

Hi! Oh, hi! Hi! So good to see you! Mwah! Clinton called out as one after the next, she greeted friends and neighbors.

The crowds were eventually asked to step aside so the Clintons could take their position at the front of the parade, where they walked alongside friends and other local elected officials.

It's a wonderful tradition, Clinton said as she began walking. Obviously it happens in towns and cities across our country but it's a good way to remember our veterans particularly those who gave their lives or were grievously injured, and we just need to, you know, make sure that it continues from year to year, generation to generation."

Hillary Clinton has attended the parade nearly every single year since she and Bill Clinton moved into the town, about an hour north of New York City, in 1999 -- and its something she does not like to miss no matter what.

"I put this on my calendar every year, and I basically tell my staff I really, really, really want to do this," the then-secretary of state told the New York Times on Memorial Day in 2012. "So unless there's some crisis of significant proportions, I'll be here, and I've had a few crises where I've had to take phone calls as I've marched."

This year, Clinton was greeted by crowds cheering their support for 2016, some even wearing t-shirts reading: It Takes a Village: Chappaqua for Hillary.

But when asked by a reporter about the signs of support along the parade route, Clinton didnt engage.

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