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By Anne Gearan

The Washington Post

WASHINGTON -- The Republican takeover of the Senate could be good news for at least one Democrat: Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Clinton campaigned hard this fall for Democrats and spent much of her time trying to preserve a Democratic majority in the Senate -- an effort that failed dramatically in Tuesday's GOP midterm rout.

But many Democratic strategists said the switch to Republican control may have a silver lining for Clinton, helping her better define herself as she shapes a potential 2016 presidential campaign. By providing a convenient foil for her and other Democrats, a GOP-run Congress would make it less imperative for Clinton to highlight her differences with President Barack Obama, these strategists said.

Obama's damaged, lame-duck condition also makes Clinton the strongest Democrat left standing.

A Republican Senate is likely to "spend a lot of time trying to repeal some of the progress made in the Obama administration," Democratic strategist Erik Smith said.

"That would be a great situation for her, because she could both make the case against the Republicans while currying favor with the Obama base."

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Why the GOP takeover may help Hillary Clinton

By Jeremy Diamond, CNN

updated 8:15 AM EST, Thu November 6, 2014

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Washington (CNN) -- If presumptive Democratic 2016 front-runner Hillary Clinton decides not to run, at least one party strategist and CNN contributor thinks the Democrats' presidential bench isn't that deep.

"No one," said Paul Begala, a longtime Clinton ally, when asked by CNN's Jake Tapper if there were other party leaders who could lead the party in 2016. "No one."

While Republicans have a full bench of presidential hopefuls, Begala, who worked for President Bill Clinton and was an early Hillary Clinton supporter in 2008, said Clinton is the Democrats' best and perhaps only hope to capture the White House in 2016.

"It's not fair," Begala said. "There are impressive people who I think could be good presidents, but they don't have I think the electoral prospects that Hillary does."

Vice President Joe Biden has said he'll consider a run for the presidency after sitting in the No. 2 spot for six years, and parts of the party's progressive wing is clamoring for Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren to run.

CNN political commentator Van Jones, who served in the Obama administration, said Clinton hasn't yet proven that she can excite the Democratic base.

"We have to have a nominee that can excite our base and I don't know if Hillary Clinton can do that," Jones said. "I know one person can, it's Elizabeth Warren."

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The Republican takeover of the Senate could be good news for at least one Democrat: Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Clinton campaigned hard this fall for Democrats and spent much of her time trying to preserve a Democratic majority in the Senate an effort that failed dramatically in Tuesdays GOP midterm rout.

But many Democratic strategists said the switch to Republican control may have a silver lining for Clinton, helping her better define herself as she shapes a potential 2016 presidential campaign. By providing a convenient foil for her and other Democrats, a GOP-run Congress would make it less imperative for Clinton to highlight her differences with President Obama, these strategists said.

Obamas damaged, lame-duck condition also makes Clinton the strongest Democrat left standing.

A Republican Senate is likely to spend a lot of time trying to repeal some of the progress made in the Obama administration, Democratic strategist Erik Smith said. That would be a great situation for her, because she could both make the case against the Republicans while currying favor with the Obama base.

From the Senate to gubernatorial races, here are the key winners Republican from the 2014 midterm elections. (The Washington Post)

But GOP adviser Stuart Stevens, the chief strategist for Mitt Romneys 2012 presidential campaign, said the notion that an all-Republican Congress is good for Clinton wont bear out.

I dont buy it, he said, because Congress will pass legislation that Obama will then veto, and that wont leave Clinton much running room. Whats she going to say, I would have vetoed it, too, so Im going to be the third term of Barack Obama?

Two years before the 2016 presidential election, Clinton is in the enviable but precarious position of being the most popular, most famous and most scrutinized contender for a race that everyone assumes shes already running in stealth mode.

But first, she will have to overcome the short-term damage from Tuesdays Democratic losses. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), a likely presidential candidate in 2016, said on CNN Wednesday that the election result was not only a repudiation of the president, but I think really a repudiation of Hillary Clinton.

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