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A new ABC News/Washington Post poll shows thatHillary Clinton continues to maintain strong leads over any of her potential Republican challengers:

Hillary Rodham Clinton holds double-digit leads over potential Republican challengers Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney as the likely Democratic presidential candidate moves closer to entering the 2016 race, anew Washington Post-ABC News pollfinds.

Although Clinton, Bush and Romney are all longtime politicians and members of political dynasties, registered voters are less likely to count that familiarity against Clinton. That is a good sign for Clinton, a failed 2008 presidential candidate and the focus of Republican criticism that her time has come and gone.

Clintons potential to make history as the first female U.S. president makes little difference to most voters and is a net positive for others.

The former first lady, U.S. senator from New York and secretary of state has said she is considering a second run for the White House. She joked about the anticipation surrounding her decision during remarks in Canada on Wednesday but did not offer hints about her thinking or the timing of a possible announcement. Democratic strategists say she is likely to enter the race in late March or April some 10 months before the Iowa caucuses open the 2016 primary contests.

Clinton approaches the nominating season in a dominant position, leading Bush by 54percent to 41percent among registered voters and Romney by 55percent to 40percent.

Beyond Bush and Romney the two Republicans who have made the firmest moves toward a 2016 run Clinton holds equally large leads over other potential Republican hopefuls. She tops Rand Paul and Chris Christie by 13percentage points each, and leads Mike Huckabee by 17points.

Additionally, while much has been made about the issue of political dynasties and the problems that public distaste for the same old faces in politics could pose for potential campaigns by candidates such as Clinton, Jeb Bush, and Mitt Romney, the poll indicates that Bill Clinton is far from being a drag on a potential Hillary 201 6 campaign:

Clintons husband, former president Bill Clinton, appears to create little drag on her potential.

Among all voting-age adults, more than 6 in 10 say the fact that Bill Clinton served as president has no bearing on whether they would support Hillary Clintons candidacy. And among those who say her spouses presidency will matter, 23percent say it will make them more likely to support her, while 14percent say less likely.

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Hillary Clinton, the presumed Democratic Party front-runner for the 2016 presidential nomination, doesn't have her own Facebook page.

Currently, when you search Hillary Clinton on Facebook, you get a "topics" page:

This is a far cry from the official public figure pages that both Mitt Romney and Jeb Bush are operating:

Yes, Hillary Clinton has a page for book "Hard Choices." But that presumes all her Facebook activity is limited to the goal of selling books, which we can all bet isn't quite true.

"I am obviously thinking about it," Clinton said of running for president in April at a marketing summit in San Francisco.

Compared to the pool of possible 2016 contenders, Hillary Clinton's book page (at the time of this writing) has 46,469 "likes." Mitt Romney, on the other hand, amassed a significant fan base on Facebook during the 2012 election cycle, reaching more than 11 million "likes."

Recently, Romney's activity on the page has spiked with speculation that me might take a third run for president in 2016. Since September, he's posted everything from the ice bucket challenge with his former vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan, to behind-the-scenes Thanksgiving photos and family grandbaby announcements. He was also quick to provide his own State of the Union reaction and post about March for Life -- signaling his return to the political conversation.

Jeb Bush, who doesn't have nearly the following of Romney but still higher than Clinton's book page, falls at 150,876 "likes." He, like Romney, is using both Instagram and Facebook to communicate his position on tax reform, State of the Union and promoting his Rise to Right PAC with a short native video.

But how do Clinton, Romney and Bush stack up against each other in overall engagement on Facebook?

According to data provided by Facebook, a snapshot of activity on Dec. 24, 2014, shows 11,377 people were talking about Hillary Clinton, with a total of 15,339 interactions: likes, comments and shares. Flash-forward to this week, Jan. 21, 2015, and 874,812 were talking about her, with a new total of 1, 472,100 interactions -- an increase of more a million engaged users.

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Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged governments to fight online campaigns aimed at recruiting for extremist movements spreading in the Muslim world.

We still have to do a better job protecting online space, including websites and chat rooms where extremists inspire and recruit followers, Clinton, a possible 2016 Democratic candidate for U.S. president, said in a speech Wednesday in Winnipeg, Manitoba. We started work in this area but there is so much more to be done.

Clinton spoke a day after President Barack Obama, in his sixth State of the Union address, asked Congress to authorize military action against Islamic State extremist groups. Public opinion polls show mounting support for stronger U.S. global leadership, especially in light of threats from Islamic State.

Clinton, who lost the 2008 Democratic race to Obama, said terror attacks in Europe are a stark reminder that threats exist as an ideology of hate spreads. Clinton said nations need to do more to stop online recruiting, and democracies need to stand against values that conflict with their beliefs.

Gunmen this month killed 17 people in three days of attacks in and around Paris, including nine journalists at satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Belgian police arrested suspects who they said intended to kill several policemen.

Clinton spoke to about 2,000 people at a Winnipeg Convention Centre event sponsored by the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.

We need to target extremist propaganda, Clinton said. We have to show the world that free people and free markets, human rights and human dignity and respect for our fellow men and women is our core strength.

Law enforcement officials in Europe have pressed companies such as Google Inc. (GOOGL), Facebook Inc. (FB) and Twitter Inc. (TWTR) to do more to help support the fight against terrorism. The officials are concerned about the Internets role in luring Europeans to join Islamist militants in Syria and Iraq.

European Union interior ministers met informally with executives from Facebook, Twitter, Google and Microsoft Corp. in Luxembourg on Oct. 8 to discuss ways to combat Islamic States use of websites for glossy recruitment publications and for posting videos of executions.

During her comments, Clinton said she was not going to express an opinion of the Keystone XL pipeline, a project proposed by Calgary-based TransCanada Corp. (TRP) and reviewed by the State Department while she was secretary. The review is continuing.

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As 2016 approaches one of the big questions for Hillary Clinton is whether she can reach beyond President Barack Obama's coalition of young people and minorities to attract more white rural voters. The latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll suggests she has an opportunity to do that.

The poll shows that Clinton comes close to matching Obama's support in big cities and dense suburban areas. But her real advantage may be in more rural communities where views of Clinton are far less negative than they are for Obama.

The breakdown of the poll results was performed with the county typology of the American Communities Project at American University's School of Public Affairs, and while 2016 is still almost a year away, the numbers are good news for Clinton.

In the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, 62% Big City counties said they had positive feelings about Obama versus 61% for Clinton. And in Urban Suburb counties, Obama also does a little better 50% positive for him versus 48% for Clinton.

But out of those core urban areas, Ms. Clinton's advantage is her negatives are much lower as you can see on these charts. Click the buttons on the top left to see the results from different areas.

In rural conservative areas - Graying America, Evangelical Hub and Working Class Country counties - 64% have negative views of Obama, but only 48% have negative views of Clinton. And in the huge swath of counties known as Rural Middle America in the ACP, 53% have negative view of Mr. Obama, but only 40% have negative views of Clinton.

You can see all the county types on this map.

To be clear, these aren't great numbers. Clinton's negatives are still fairly high in those places, but they suggest voters in those counties could possibly be open to her candidacy - at least compared to how they feel about Obama.

Rural reach is particularly important for Clinton because political analysts have wondered if she can ultimately match the enthusiasm and votes Obama drew from big urban centers. These poll numbers suggest that even if Clinton can't match that enthusiasm, she may be able to draw some support from other places - even if she can't win them.

Of course, polls always represent just a snapshot of a moment in time. It could be that Obama's negatives are so much higher than Clinton's in those rural communities because they also tend to vote Republican so they are more likely to have a strong dislike for a sitting Democratic president.

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New tensions are emerging in the relationship between allies of President Obama and Hillary Clinton.

At issue is the fate of the political equivalent of gold dust the enormous email list, comprised of many millions of supporters and donors, that the Obama team has compiled over the course of his two presidential campaigns.

The Clinton camp would dearly love to get its hands on the list, but there is no promise as yet that the presidents aides will comply.

There are large concerns about the lists among Clinton supporters, one Hillary ally told The Hill.

But Team Obama has long believed that the presidents support is built upon the bedrock of his personal qualities rather than mere party identification. His people are loath to be seen as treating the passion of his supporters in a cavalier fashion.

Theres a lot of data voter data, massive email lists that Obama built and there are a lot of people who want to make sure that he spreads that wealth, the Clinton ally said. They want to make sure he doesnt take it in a suitcase back to Chicago and move on. No one wants to see it disappear or have it used just to build a library.

But a senior Democratic strategist familiar with the Obama operation noted that, among the millions of names and emails on the famous lists, there were many people whose primary loyalty was to Barack Obama rather than to the Democratic Party.

Asked about the likely fate of the data, the strategist expressed uncertainty as to how the internal discussions would shake out. The person floated the idea of a compromise under which Obama could send out emails to his own list, but then include a link to a Hillary-specific site to which his supporters could donate.

The gathering storm over the email lists is just the latest example of the complicated dynamics that underpin the Obama-Clinton relationship. It is revealing that the tensions have flared before the former first lady has even officially launched her 2016 campaign.

Obama himself might have made the first big speech of the 2016 election last week, with his State of the Union address. The president asserted that he had been vindicated by events in the face of Republican opposition, tweaked the GOP a number of times, and made appeals to key demographic groups, including women and Latinos.

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