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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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Hillary Clinton is trying to build a disciplined and loyal campaign team that can avoid one of the very things that plagued her last presidential bid: unflattering leaks to the press.

Reporters covering Clintons 2008 White House bid relished the dirty laundry her senior staffers dished about each other as then-Sen. Barack Obama surged ahead of the pack.

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Now, as Clinton blends longtime loyalists and Obama campaign alumni to staff whats expected to be her next presidential run, a major question surrounding the efforts is exactly how to minimize the damage from inevitable press leaks while maintaining focus on her overarching, still-TBD campaign message.

The test of a good campaign is how it deals with adversity and whether people pick each other up, support each other or whether they start leaking on each other and trying to purge each other, David Axelrod, the former top Barack Obama campaign strategist, said last week on MSNBCs Hardball. Thats what plagued their campaign the last time.

Leaks are a challenge for any major presidential bid, but the stakes are especially high for Clinton as she takes the early 2015 pole position in a diminished Democratic primary field. Her early dominance of the race carries an enhanced risk of leaks: So many high-profile Democratic operatives will be jostling for influence in her inner circle that they may be tempted to make their disputes public.

Clinton loyalists insist that if everything goes smoothly and she wins Iowa next year, she will enjoy a largely leak-free run to the nomination. But if the campaign hits a speed bump or two?

When things go south, leaks come out, many of them not even truthful, as everyone is trying to get out of the way of the loss, said a former senior Clinton political aide. When things go north, leaks are fewer because everyone is jockeying for the win and so the penalty of leaking is greater.

Clinton has shown in recent years she can run a leak-free operation. Her tenure leading Obamas State Department, covered by the diplomatic press corp rather than political reporters, didnt include many front page stories detailing tensions with the White House. But a presidential campaign in todays hyper-caffeinated, Twitter-obsessed media environment is an entirely different beast, and interviews with more than a dozen Clinton veterans who span her career as first lady, New York senator, presidential candidate and secretary of state suggest a slew of obstacles for someone who in the past has had many more self-destructive moments than other top-tier politicians.

For starters, Clintons campaign is expected to mix some of her closest allies with Obama veterans and less experienced operatives. The approach sounds similar to her 2000 Senate bid, which had its rocky moments but successfully incorporated veteran Clinton hands like campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle, deputy campaign manager Neera Tanden,and strategists Harold Ickes and Mark Penn alongside native New Yorkers like communications director Howard Wolfson and Bill de Blasio, now the citys mayor. But just on sheer numbers alone, her presidential campaign will be much larger, much more competitive and much more at risk of leaking.

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Hillary Clinton: She has big lead over Republican rivals for the White House, even if book on years at the State Department was a snoozer.

Ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton impersonated Vladimir Putin and joked about a run for the White House during a Winnipeg gig on Tuesday, while a new national poll was giving her double digit leads over a 2016 field of potential Republican rivals.

The new ABC News/Washington Post finds Clinton doing well against such establishment Republicans as Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney, as well as libertarians and religious right conservatives in the GOP field. Bill Clinton is more an asset than a liability to his spouses ambitions.

A rundown of figures from the poll, taken January 12-15:

Clinton leads former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush by a 54-41 percent margin. A majority of those polled said it would make no difference that Bush is a brother and son of former presidents. Among those who feel it does make a difference, the result is negative toward busy.

Ex-Florida Gov. Jeb Bush: Hes scoping out a run for President in 2016, says legacy of George W. Bush presidency wont hold him back: Im proud to be a Bush.

Clinton has a 55-40 percent advantage over 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney. Romney has begun testing waters for a third run for the White House.

Clinton runs ahead of Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, by a 54-41 percent margin. Paul is the libertarian in the GOP field, advocating a less interventionist foreign policy. His father, ex-Texas Rep. Ron Paul, ran for the Republican nomination in 2012.

Clinton enjoys her biggest lead, at 56-39 percent, over former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. Huckabee has quit his show at Fox News to explore a new run at the White House, and lately made news with denunciations of Jay-Z and Beyonce.

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