The American Dream: Hillary Clinton Writing A New Chapter
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Top Economist: Hillary Clinton Will Lead Us To WWIII
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By Dan Balz Chief correspondent November 22 at 11:36 AM
NEW YORK It was all Hillary Clinton, all day, Friday in New York, a day that helped crystallize how much already has been done for the prospective presidential candidate by others and, more importantly, what she has yet to do for herself.
The events included a day-long session for the donors to Ready for Hillary, the political action committee founded in early 2013 to help encourage Clinton to run for president. She did not appear at the event, but many of the Clinton clique were there.
In the evening, it was the former secretary of state herself in the limelight at a black-tie gala hosted by the New-York Historical Society Museum & Library, where she was given the History Makers award.
Ready for Hillary started on a shoestring, dismissed by some in Clinton world as a quixotic enterprise. It has grown into something far more important and valuable to a potential candidate whose top-down campaign in 2008 was one (but not the only) factor that led to her defeat to Barack Obama in the contest for the Democratic nomination.
Because of the work of Ready for Hillary, if Clinton decides to run for president, she will instantly have access to what the groups leaders say is a list of roughly 3 million people who have signed up as supporters, volunteers, donors or all of the above. Ready for Hillary will shut down if and when Clinton announces her candidacy. The list cant simply be handed over to her, but she will easily be able to convert fruits of the organizations efforts into a Hillary for President ground army.
Many people deserve credit for this. One is Adam Parkhomenko, the young and tireless co-founder of the group, who has been looking to help make Clinton president of the United States since he was in high school and who overcame the doubters with his energy and a strategic grasp of the techniques and imperatives of the most modern of campaigns.
Another who gets credit is Craig Smith, who has been part of the Clintons world for more than two decades and whose arrival at Ready for Hillary signaled to many longtime Clinton loyalists and donors that the organization deserved their backing, financial and otherwise. About $10 million has been raised since the founding.
Fridays gathering in New York seemed very much like both a Clinton political family reunion and the gathering-before-the-storm. In attendance were scores of people from across the country, many of them instrumental in helping Bill Clinton become president, some who served him as president, and all of them now are just as determined to see Hillary Clinton get to the White House in her own right.
The speakers constituted a whos who of Clinton loyalists, from strategists James Carville and Paul Begala to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to former White House deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes. Equally notable were those from Obamas political orbit and others who are now part of the Ready for Hillary operation or any of the other pro-Clinton political committees and organizations that have been founded in the past two years.
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Balz: For Democrats, Hillary Clinton just has to say Go. For voters, shell have to say much more.
Washington Is Hillary Rodham Clinton inevitable?
That question arises Friday because top Clinton supporters are meeting in New York City in a prelude of sorts to more intense political activity aimed at 2016.
Leaders of Ready for Hillary, a big super PAC that is not officially linked to Ms. Clinton but is preparing the way for her possible presidential bid, will join representatives of other Democratic groups to review US politics following the midterms and plan for whats next.
Everyone has a lane. We are going to work together and seamlessly so theres no infighting, former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, a Ready for Hillary adviser and co-chair of Priorities USA Action, told the Associated Press in advance of the meeting.
Hillaryland wants Clintons road ahead to be open, of course. Fighting off serious challengers in the primaries would be hard, expensive, and risky.
And Hillaryland may get its wish.
Yes, some opponents are beginning to stir. Ex-Sen. Jim Webb has already formed an exploratory committee. Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont hes an independent who would presumably switch his registration back to Democrat is hiring campaign staff and mulling a run. Maryland Gov. Martin OMalley has dispatched staffers to Iowa and begun amassing cash.
But look, these guys have very little chance of winning. Clintons dominance of her partys presidential field at this point is historically unprecedented.
She is 52 points ahead of any other Democrat in the RealClearPolitics (RCP) rolling average of major polls. Fifty-two points! Thats crushing it.
And the second-place Democrat in question is VP Joe Biden, who may not run if she does. The third-place contestant is Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who insists shes not running. Clinton is 61 points ahead of Senator Sanders and 62 points ahead of Governor OMalley.
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Could anyone beat Hillary Clinton? Yes, of course. (+video)
NEW YORK Hillary Clinton loyalists anticipate the 2016 presidential race will be exceedingly close and that possible Republican candidates Jeb Bush and Rand Paul could prove attractive to voters in battleground states.
At an event Friday hosted by the super PAC Ready for Hillary, some of her most ardent supporters said they dont expect Mrs. Clinton to breeze into the White House if she runs, in part because the nation might be unwilling to extend Democratic control of the White House another four years.
Harold Ickes, a top adviser on Mrs. Clintons 2008 presidential bid, told reporters that a Republican ticket made up of Mr. Bush and Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio would be a formidable one.
As the Spanish-speaking ex-governor of Florida, Mr. Bush could potentially attract Hispanics who voted heavily for President Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, Mr. Ickes said. For his part, Mr. Portman represents a swing state that is perennial a great prize in the competition for the 270 electoral college votes needed to win the White House.
I would think that a Jeb Bush and a Rob Portman, just as a hypothetical, would be a strong ticket for them for a couple of reasons, said Mr. Ickes, who served in Bill Clintons White House. Should a Bush-Portman ticket win Ohio and Florida, that would put added pressure on the Democrats to capture Colorado, Mr. Ickes said.
Because Mr. Bush brother of the 43rd president and son of the 41st president appears to have very strong credentials with Hispanics that puts Colorado very much in play, Mr. Ickes said.
Seen as a centrist, Mr. Bush would have difficulty capturing the Republican nomination, given the propensity of GOP primary voters to support conservative candidates.
Other possible Republican candidates stand to do well in important swing states, some of the other Ready for Hillary attendees said.
Kentucky Sen. Paul, for example, might draw independent voters in New Hampshire, a state with libertarian leanings, Terry Shumaker, a top adviser to Ready for Hillary, told reporters. Mr. Paul has been a sharp critic of the federal governments surveillance practices and has taken a wary view of U.S. military intervention overseas.
I would think that Rand Paul would have significant appeal in New Hampshire because there is a very strong libertarian streak in our state, Mr. Shumaker said. We believe that people should be left alone. We believe in the right to privacy.
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Hillary Clinton Supporters See an Especially Tight Race in 2016