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LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) Former First Lady Hillary Clinton on Tuesday aided Alison Lundergan Grimes' campaign mantra that she is a Clinton Democrat by stumping for Grimes in Louisville.

Clinton and Grimes held a fundraiser downtown and later a rally in front of a few thousand people at the Kentucky International Convention Center.

Hello Kentucky! Clinton said, before recounting her success in the state's 2008 Democratic presidential primary. I'm back for one reason, and that's because Kentucky deserves a change in Washington.

The Clinton visit came one day after the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee stopped airing TV advertisements in Kentucky. Grimes also faces criticism for repeatedly refusing to say whether she voted for President Barack Obama.

Clinton gave no insight as to whether she plans to run for president again in 2016, yet Kentucky Democrats including Grimes herself weren't shy about wanting Clinton to join the race.

This (U.S. Senate seat) is a six-year term, Grimes said. It's about a senator who will work for the next four years with whomever is in the White House, no matter who he or she may be.

Grimes' line, spoken while pointing in Clinton's direction, received one of the loudest cheers of the night.

The Grimes campaign told reporters that 4,500 people were in the crowd. The campaign created a presidential nominating convention-type atmosphere, including the use of signs that bore the name of each of Kentucky's counties.

Grimes raised nearly $4.9 million in the third quarter to McConnell's $3.2 million, but the senator still holds a cash advantage of $800,000.

And, without help from the DSCC, Grimes could be significantly outspent by McConnell and GOP allies in the last three weeks of the race.

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By Rachel Streitfeld

updated 9:41 PM EDT, Wed October 15, 2014

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Louisville, Kentucky (CNN) -- Hillary Clinton sounded a populist tone in a fiery campaign appearance Wednesday, as she continued to unveil a political message ahead of the midterm elections.

"The other side has done everything it can to divide you," she told several thousand raucous fans in Louisville. "This election is about the future."

Clinton's speech comes as the former secretary of state moves back into the political sphere with a series of rallies for Democrats up this midterm cycle. On Wednesday, she rallied supporters of Alison Lundergan Grimes, who is challenging Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in a high-profile race.

"Let's put another crack in the glass ceiling, and elect this incredible young woman to the United States Senate," Clinton exhorted the cheering audience.

Clinton criticized McConnell and politicians in Washington for causing gridlock and slowing economic growth, and she lamented the avalanche of money outside groups are dumping into the midterm elections.

She urged Kentuckians to send a new voice to the Senate.

Some of her biggest applause lines centered on pocketbook issues such as raising the minimum wage and equal pay.

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If Hillary Rodham Clinton runs for president in 2016, she may indeed run a very different campaign than she did in 2008. One area where there is unlikely to be change? Clinton still has no love for the media.

Delivering a keynote address at a Salesforce technology conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, Clinton once again demurred before a (very) supportive audience when asked about her presidential plans: I dont want to make any news today, she replied, offering what might well have been her mantra for the last year.

But in outlining the difficulties of modern leaders, she argued that the intensity ofmedia scrutiny has made it more difficult to govern in a thoughtful way.

If you look at how much time used to be spent reporting the news -- the real news, not analyzing it -- but reporting the news in the 1960s and '70s, compared to now, its dramatically shrunk, the former secretary of State said. People are looking for the best angle, the quickest hit, the biggest embarrassment.

Clinton has long maintained that the media treated her and her husband poorly during Bill Clintons years in the White House. Earlier this year in Politico Magazine, Glenn Thrush and Maggie Haberman detailed Hillary Clintons toxic relations with the media throughout those years, as well as during her 2008 campaign, when many of her aides believed that reporters were giving Barack Obama more favorable coverage.

On Tuesday in San Francisco, Clinton noted that former presidents including Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower had time to think and reflect as they made big decisions.

Human beings havent changed that much, but the scrutiny, the attention, the criticism about people in the public eye has accelerated dramatically, Clinton said. She noted that Roosevelt probably couldnt have been elected if people knew he was in wheelchair and couldnt stand. But, she noted, his physical condition remained out of the public eye by agreement of all parties.

We have created very difficult hurdles for people who want to serve, who believe they can lead, to be able to do so, Clinton said.

The voraciousness of the media was not the only concern that Clinton cited on Tuesday. She also decried the divisiveness of todays politics -- observing that Americans are most interested in listening to those who agree with them and no one else.

If youre not in dialogue, if youre not listening to one another, you cannot build a relationship, Clinton said in her conversation with Klaus Schwab, the founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum.

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Hillary Clinton: Reporters today spent too little time reporting

If Hillary Rodham Clinton runs for president in 2016, she may indeed run a very different campaign than she did in 2008. One area where there is unlikely to be change? Clinton still has no love for the media.

Delivering a keynote address at a Salesforce technology conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, Clinton once again demurred before a (very) supportive audience when asked about her presidential plans: I dont want to make any news today, she replied, offering what might well have been her mantra for the last year.

But in outlining the difficulties of modern leaders, she argued that the intensity ofmedia scrutiny has made it more difficult to govern in a thoughtful way.

If you look at how much time used to be spent reporting the news -- the real news, not analyzing it -- but reporting the news in the 1960s and '70s, compared to now, its dramatically shrunk, the former secretary of State said. People are looking for the best angle, the quickest hit, the biggest embarrassment.

Clinton has long maintained that the media treated her and her husband poorly during Bill Clintons years in the White House. Earlier this year in Politico Magazine, Glenn Thrush and Maggie Haberman detailed Hillary Clintons toxic relations with the media throughout those years, as well as during her 2008 campaign, when many of her aides believed that reporters were giving Barack Obama more favorable coverage.

On Tuesday in San Francisco, Clinton noted that former presidents including Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower had time to think and reflect as they made big decisions.

Human beings havent changed that much, but the scrutiny, the attention, the criticism about people in the public eye has accelerated dramatically, Clinton said. She noted that Roosevelt probably couldnt have been elected if people knew he was in wheelchair and couldnt stand. But, she noted, his physical condition remained out of the public eye by agreement of all parties.

We have created very difficult hurdles for people who want to serve, who believe they can lead, to be able to do so, Clinton said.

The voraciousness of the media was not the only concern that Clinton cited on Tuesday. She also decried the divisiveness of todays politics -- observing that Americans are most interested in listening to those who agree with them and no one else.

If youre not in dialogue, if youre not listening to one another, you cannot build a relationship, Clinton said in her conversation with Klaus Schwab, the founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum.

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WBKO) -- With less than three weeks to go in the election, United States senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes called in Hillary Clinton to campaign for her.

The two women along with several prominent Kentucky democrats fired up the crowd of about 4,500 in downtown Louisville.

They all said it was time for a change after 30 years of Sen. Mitch McConnell and talked about a need to raise the minimum wage as well as equal pay for women.

"Isn't just amazing that it's 2014 and we are still debating whether women deserve equal pay for equal work. That is not preferential treatment, that is fairness and common sense, and the women of Kentucky deserve to have somebody who knows that and will fight for it," said Hillary Clinton.

Clinton, Governor Steve Beshear and others also talked about the need to keep affordable health care in Kentucky and touted what Kynect has done insuring more than 500,000 Kentuckians.

The event was all for Grimes to try and take down the 30 year incumbent republican Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell.

"My name may be on the ballot, but your backs have to be in this with me if we are going to make history. Eric Cantor won't be the only republican leader going down this year. We need your time. We need your talents. We need you phoning your neighbors and going door to door. Mitch McConnell can buy the air waves, but can he buy Kentucky? Let me hear you say no," said Alison Lundergan Grimes, democratic candidate for United States Senate.

"She, with her energy, with her intelligence, her commitment, will make a difference in your lives. There is no limit to what you can achieve together. I have believed that my whole life. I believe that's what we're put on this earth to do, to make it better for our children and yes, our grandchildren. I know Alison believes that as well. That's what this election is about, get out there, knock on every door, e-mail and text everybody you know. Make it possible for everyone to know what the stakes are. Let's put another crack in that glass ceiling, and elect this incredible young woman to the United States Senate," said Clinton.

Clinton is widely expected to run for President in 2016 and she received several shouts of that tonight from people like Gov. Beshear and Attorney General Jack Conway.

The McConnell campaign released a statement to WBKO about the event, "The only possible reason why Alison Lundergan Grimes would throw a party for Hillary Clinton but refuse to admit she voted for Barack Obama is that she thinks we're all too stupid to figure out they have the exact same policy views."

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