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Did 2014 election help or hurt Hillary Clinton?
John King, Lisa Lerer and Ed O #39;Keefe weigh in on Clinton #39;s influence on the midterms and how it may affect her in 2016.
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She is the leading global voice championing the empowerment of girls and women, but of the eight Democratic women Hillary Clinton stumped for in the 2014 midterm cycle, only one was declared a winner.
She is the prospective frontrunner for her partys presidential nomination in 2016, but of the 26 Democrats Clinton campaigned for in the midterms, 12 won, 13 lost, and one Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana lingers in uncertainty, facing a Dec. 6 runoff election against her Republican opponent.
This cycle marked Hillary Clintons return to the arena of electoral politics for the first time since her failed presidential bid in 2008 secretaries of state traditionally abstain from partisan activity and for those scouring the newly refashioned landscape for indications of how Clintons White House prospects may be affected, the results are decidedly mixed.
Supporters of the former secretary of state argue that, despite having eschewed the rough and tumble of politics for six years, she used her time on the stump this fall to good effect, forging new and strong ties with local party chieftains in states where such connections will prove valuable to a presidential run in two years.
I think Hillary Clinton did yeoman's work in campaigning out there for Democrats, said Patti Solis Doyle, a former Clinton campaign manager in 2008, in an interview with Fox News. She did what she could to help her friends, and very strong Democrats out there. She raised money for them; she campaigned for them.
Solis Doyle emphasized that neither Clintons name nor her policies were on the ballot on Tuesday but that hasnt stopped some of her potential rivals from spreading the word that the big GOP gains marked a major setback for her aspirations. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., the GOPs 2012 vice presidential nominee, told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt that Tuesdays verdict tells you that shes not inevitable. I think shes very beatable.
More pointed was Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who took to Twitter with unabashed glee to brand the 13 unsuccessful candidates Clinton stumped for Hillarys Losers. The 1990s was a long time ago, Paul said on Fox and Friends on Friday morning. I don't think there is such a Clinton cachet as there once was. ... There is a message here about Hillary Clinton as much as there is a message about the president.
Doug Schoen, a former pollster for President Clinton, dismissed Sen. Pauls suggestions that Mrs. Clinton remains, in the public imagination, tied at the hip to the unpopular incumbent in the White House. This election was a repudiation, first and foremost, as every Republican I've heard say, of President Obama, Schoen said on Fox News' Happening Now on Wednesday. I think that the Clinton brand is separate and distinct from President Obama. I don't think this has an appreciable impact on her fortunes and future.
With long memories of the central role that Florida and Ohio have played in recent presidential contests, Clinton and her Democratic colleagues cannot have looked favorably upon the Republicans success on Tuesday in holding onto the governors mansions in those critical battleground states. Some have argued that she will benefit from the GOP wave by being able to run against the GOP Congress.
Yet in the actual business of campaigning the deployment of rhetoric and charisma to sway persuadable hearts and minds Clintons performance again left some feeling as though she has still not worked out the kinks on display in her rocky book tour this spring. Perhaps Clintons most memorable statement as a surrogate speaker during this cycle was her assertion, during an Oct. 24 appearance in Boston on behalf of (doomed) Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate Martha Coakley: Dont let anybody tell you that its corporations and businesses that create jobs.
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Washington (CNN) -- Election night was terrible for the Democratic Party, and Hillary Clinton was not spared.
Clinton visited 20 states and stumped for 26 candidates ahead of Election Day 2014. Her midterm record was an abysmal 11 wins, 14 losses and one runoff, according to CNN projections.
But there is an argument - Clinton advisers will spin it to you - in the context of what appears to be an all-but-certain run in 2016, that her Midterm record is far less important than what she gained while campaigning for Democrats.
Re-learning to stump
Going into the Midterms, Clinton's mostly paid speeches were corporate and dull. She addressed audiences that were full of executive types who did not alawys seem excited to see her; many of whom were attending conferences that had no connection to the former secretary of state.
That changed during Clinton's time on the campaign trail.
The former secretary of state stretched her long-dormant political legs and toyed with what will likely be her presidential message. She honed a new message based on women's rights and opposition to Wall Street and - perhaps most importantly - got some needed practice ahead of a possible presidential run.
When the former secretary of state took the stage at September's Tom Harkin Steak Fry in Iowa - her first real political speech of the year - she appeared to reporters on the ground to be flat and out-of-practice. That afternoon, the crowd responded with far more excitement to Tom Harkin, their retiring senator, and Bill Clinton, Hillary's husband and the former president.
But over time during the Midterms, Clinton became more comfortable on the stump.
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2014: Did Hillary Clinton got her groove back despite Democrats' loss?