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A former top adviser to President Barack Obama suggested on Thursday that voters would perceive Hillary Clinton as a less complex alternative to Obama should she decide to run for president in 2016.
David Axelrod, a former White House senior adviser and a chief architect of both of Obamas presidential campaigns, said that he thought the contrast could play to Clintons advantage.
Even when a president is popular, people tend to seek the remedy and not the replica. They want someone who has the qualities that they miss in the president, Axelrod said at a breakfast hosted by The Wall Street Journal. This tends to be a pendular thing. I think in 2016 people are going to want someone who is a little less nuanced and a little less attuned to the complexity, someone who projects more of a sense of black and white certainty.
Axelrod added that such an environment favors Hillary Clinton more than the 2008 environment because she tends to be someone who speaks in simple, declarative sentences with great certainty.
In August, Axelrod publicly criticized Clinton after she said that Obama's foreign policy mantra of dont do stupid stuff lacked clarity.
Great nations need organizing principles, and 'Dont do stupid stuff' is not an organizing principle. It may be a necessary brake on the actions you might take in order to promote a vision, Clinton told The Atlantic.
Axelrod, who worked on Clintons 2000 campaign for U.S. Senate, fired back on Twitter, criticizing Clintons vote in support of the Iraq war in 2002.
"Just to clarify: 'Don't do stupid stuff' means stuff like occupying Iraq in the first place, which was a tragically bad decision," Axelrod wrote.
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Washington (CNN) -- Hillary Clinton is a New Yorker. And an Arkansan. And an Illinoisan. And at times also even a Pennsylvanian.
While the question -- Where is Hillary Clinton from? -- may seem simple, the answer was made harder as Clinton traveled the country over the last six months stumping for Democratic candidates during the midterms and peddling her memoir. People from at least four states like to lay claim to Clinton, and the former secretary of state never shied away from those signs of citizenship.
Born in Park Ridge, Illinois in 1947, Clinton rose to prominence during her 20-year stay in Arkansas from 1974 to 1992. After living in Washington, D.C., for eight years as first lady, Clinton moved to Chappaqua, New York and represented the Empire State for eight years in the Senate.
Geographical identity politics are a core part of the American campaign trail from local offices all the way up Pennsylvania Avenue -- just ask Dick Lugar or Scott Brown -- and having home roots that are considered authentic by voters is a key part of messaging for any presidential hopeful, and that includes Clinton.
At times, she plays up her Arkansas roots and slight southern accent. In other forums, she is the former senator from New York and resident of Chappaqua. And when she is anywhere in the Midwest, Clinton is the Chicago Cubs-loving child from Park Ridge, Illinois.
The Clintons currently maintain their primary residence in New York and another home in Washington, D.C.
Clinton's returning to one of these "home" states this weekend -- Arkansas -- for a 10th anniversary celebration of the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock.
Here is how Clinton is linked to four states -- Illinois, Arkansas, New York and Pennsylvania -- and why it matters.
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Little Rock, Arkansas (CNN) -- Hillary Clinton is the prohibitive favorite for the Democrats' presidential nomination in 2016. And there are countless political operatives with opinions on how she should run her all-but-certain campaign.
That combination has led to tons of unsolicited advice thrown at the former secretary of state, some of it counter intuitive and a lot of contradictory. Here are the five pieces of unsolicited advice being volleyed regularly at Hillary Clinton:
1.) Run from Obama
President Barack Obama took most of the blame for Democrats' losses on Nov. 4. So shortly after Election Day, a cacophony of anonymous allies were telling Clinton to run away from the president she served under for four years.
"She is not President Obama. Let's not forget, they were a team of rivals," one ally told The Hill. "Now is the time to further enunciate these differences."
Clinton allies expressed similar sentiments to CNN. The thinking goes that if the president is unpopular, Clinton should start distance herself now, as opposed to months down the road when it may be harder.
2.) Run to Obama
Clinton allies have also been telling reporters that because Republican pickups in Senate create a larger target for both her and the President, it would make sense for them to join forces.
"President Obama's legacy is now entirely dependent on the election of a Democratic successor as president who will protect and extend it, not demolish it," David Brock, the chairman of a pro-Clinton super PAC, told the Washington Post. "Should she run, they both now have a common enemy in a Republican Congress that will define politics through 2016."
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For the past five years, a prominent Democratic operative who is a leading contender to manage a Hillary Clinton presidential campaign has maintained a private email listserv for friends and associates that carries a provocative name: the Mook Mafia.
The listserv, which one member said reaches more than 150 fellow campaign veterans, has been a means for Robby Mook and a close friend Marlon Marshall to stay connected with many of the operatives who would likely populate a Democratic presidential campaign in 2016. Mook and Marshall have both been mentioned as possible Hillary Clinton campaign managers.
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PHOTO: DCCC's Robby Mook speaks with members of Emily's List in this Oct. 25, 2010 file photo.
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President Obama receives an update on the Affordable Care Act in the Oval Office, April 1, 2014. With the President, from left, are: Phil Schiliro, Tara McGuinness, Marlon Marshall, Jeanne Lambrew, DKristie Canegallo and Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett.
Copies of a cache of the emails obtained by ABC News, and revealed publicly for the first time, show Mook and Marshall demonstrating an aggressive tone in rallying their friends behind political causes, in exchanges that are often self-mocking and sometimes border on being profane.
They include rallying cries to, in Mooks words, smite Republicans mafia-style, and, to quote Marshall, punish those voters. Mook sometimes calls himself Deacon in the emails, while Marshall, now a senior White House aide, refers to himself as Reverend in many of the exchanges.
Their inside jokes sometimes come at the expense of fellow Democrats, including former President Bill Clinton. A November 2009 mock news release announcing the listserv in addition to a new website and an upcoming reunion for the Mook Mafia included a fabricated quote from the former president.
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