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SAN FRANCISCO In this midterm election season, it may not be good to be a Democrat but it is very good to be Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The presumptive Democratic front-runner for 2016 is among her partys best assets to raise money and energize voters amid a gloomy election landscape for Democrats this fall, and she is campaigning hard even on behalf of apparent lost causes.

As a pair of events this week in California illustrated, Clintons efforts to raise money and get out the vote for Democratic congressional and gubernatorial candidates often dovetail with her own political agenda. Her first political season after stepping down as secretary of state has combined political boosterism for Democrats including in key presidential states with high-dollar fundraising and lucrative paid speeches.

The appearances give revealing clues as to what kind of candidate Clinton might be in two years emphasizing womens issues and striving to thread the needle between her hawkish, centrist history and the more liberal base that rejected her in favor of Barack Obama in 2008.

Here in San Francisco on Monday, Clinton gave a spirited call to arms to Democrats as she road-tested what is likely to be her economic message if she runs again. The November midterms, she said, come down to a simple question: Whos on your side?

Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton urged Kentucky voters to put another crack in that glass ceiling and send Alison Lundergan Grimes (D) to the Senate during a rally in Louisville on Wednesday. (AP)

She sounded close to her partys populist marrow when she decried the erosion of economic security for many working Americans, and a long way from her tone-deaf remark earlier this year about being dead broke when she and Bill Clinton left the White House in 2000.

Its time to elect leaders who will fight for everyone to get a fair shot at the American dream, Hillary Clinton said, adding proudly that more than 100 women are running as Democratic candidates for Congress this year. I cant think of a better way to make Congress start working for American families again than electing every last one of them.

Clinton was the headliner at a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) event billed as the Ultimate Womens Power Luncheon, with ticket prices ranging from $500 a person to $32,400 per couple, for a total of $1.4 million raised. House minority leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was the undercard. Organizers said about 800 people attended.

Pelosi, who was speaker before Democrats lost the House in 2010, joked that while that made her the highest-ranking woman in U.S. politics, Id like to give up that title.

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Hillary Clinton is a bright spot on a gloomy Democratic election landscape

SAN FRANCISCO Continuing her 2014 evolution from mostly apolitical figure to fierce partisan, Hillary Rodham Clinton is accusing Republicans of national amnesia about their own failings in office and telling Democrats they will have themselves to blame if they dont come out to vote in midterm elections.

This is our chance -- our chance to elect Democrats who are fighting to jump-start the middle class, Clinton said at a $1.4 million Democratic fund-raising luncheon here Monday. Our chance to elect Democrats who are working for better jobs, better wages, for an economy that works for everybody.

Were in the home stretch, she continued, and it all comes down to who shows up.

After President Obama and other Democrats worked hard to avert financial disaster and begin rebuilding the U.S. economy after 2008, it is truly regrettable [that] we are having to work so hard to elect and reelect Democrats, Clinton said.

Its as though the other side wants to cast an air of amnesia, over the 2014 midterms, she said, warming to the theme.

You know, we werent really on the brink of the worst economic catastrophe since the Great Depression; we werent really fighting two wars; we werent really worrying about what was happening if the economy fell so far and peoples livelihoods and their homes and their healthcare and everything else they were depending on was swept away.

That didnt happen, seems to the other side, Clinton said. Were here to remind them and all of us, it did happen.

Although her own 2008 presidential loss had little to do with turnout, she playfully invoked it to remind Democrats of the dangers of staying home.

You never know what can happen in an election. You cant take anything for granted. You just have to get out there and work. I dont think any of us want to wake up the day after the election and wish we had done more, she said.

Clinton is also road-testing an unabashedly women-centered economic message heavy on outrage over pay inequality and the professional costs women pay to both raise families and bring in a paycheck.

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Hillary Clinton sharpens her stump speech

Hillary Clinton stumps for Colorado Democratic candidates at the Radisson Denver Southeast hotel on Tuesday afternoon, October 21, 2014. (Kathryn Scott Osler, The Denver Post)

Former secretary of state and potential presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will fire up volunteers and stump for key Colorado Democrats Tuesday afternoon at a rally in Aurora.

This installment in U.S. Sen. Mark Udall's nearly three-week get-out-the-vote bus tour puts the focus on the 6th Congressional District. Democrat Andrew Romanoff, a former Colorado House speaker, is challenging three-term Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman in one of the most competitive districts in the nation.

Last week, Udall who's been trailing or deadlocked with Republican Rep. Cory Gardner in several polls was joined by Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who fired up crowds in Englewood and Boulder.

On Thursday, First Lady Michelle Obama will take part in rallies in Denver and Fort Collins.

Clinton will speak Tuesday during the 1 p.m. event at the Radisson Denver Southeast hotel. Also set to talk are Udall, Romanoff, U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet and Gov. John Hickenlooper, who's running for re-election against Republican Bob Beauprez.

Campaign offices gave out all available tickets to supporters and volunteers.

Ahead of Tuesday's appearance by "the Clinton campaign machine," as Coffman's campaign characterized it, Coffman seized on the moment to hit up supporters for contributions in a fundraising e-mail.

"This is the No. 1 race in America," Coffman campaign manager Tyler Sandberg told The Denver Post, adding: "Liberals are pulling out all the stops" to help Romanoff.

Republicans also have been bringing in big names to help them campaign. On Monday, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie appeared at an event with Beauprez.

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Hillary Clinton to stump for Udall, Romanoff Tuesday in Aurora

Hillary Clinton tonight told a room full of Hollywood heavyweights that the midterm elections are very important to make sure the Democrats retain the Senate so they can move forward on important issues like immigration reform. What she also told the 60 or so guests in attendance is, to use some of the introductory remarks by co-chair Jeffrey Katzenberg, is the amazing drawing power of the former Secretary of State. A fact not lost on anyone as tonights event raised $2.1 million forDemocratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, a fundraising record.

The presumptive predominant 2016 Presidential candidate was the headliner at a Brentwood fundraiser co-hosted by big Democratic Party bundler Katzenberg. The DreamWorks Animation boss and his wife Marilyn were joined at event sponsored by the DSCCby fellow co-chairs and big donors Casey Wasserman and Laura Wasserman, Steven Spielbergand Kate Capshaw, Disney Studios chairmanAlan Hornand Cindy Harrell Horn, and Live Nation president and CEO Michael Rapino and Jolene Rapino. Katzenbergs political consigliere Andy Spahn and Jennifer Perry were also co-chairs. Although named on the invite that went out last week fortonights 6 PM starting event, Spielberg and Horn was not actually at the fundraiser. Big time Dem supporter Cindy Harrell Horn was as were the Rapinos and the Wassermans.Avengers director Joss Whedon was there, sources say. Also there was long time Democratic supporter Eva Longeria, Big Bang Theorys Jim Parsons and Cameron Diaz.

DSCC Chair Sen. Michael Bennet spoke first followed by the DWA boss who praised the success of the evening. Clinton then spoke and took questions from the paying audience.

Clinton herself didnt bring up her assumed Presidential run in two years tonight sources tell me but Hillarys return to the White House and the campaign trail was on the minds and lips of LA and DC powerhouses today. Earlier in the day at a Clinton headlined fundraising lunch in San Francisco, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told the crowd that if the former First Lady does decide to run for President, she will win. An industry attendee at tonights event told me the person I saw tonight acted like and was treated like an anointed Presidential candidate. Clinton worked the room like her hat was already thrown into the ring, he added.

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Californias senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer were both supposed to be attendance with their former Senate colleague. However while the latter was there , the former was not. Boxer was also at the Ready For Hillary Super PAC fundraiser September 21 the Pacific Palisades home ofHomeland producer Howard Gordon and his wife Cami that raised cash for a Clinton 2016 campaign.Though she has been to LA for speaking and charity events since leaving the State Department last year, tonights fundraiser isClintons first direct cash-seeking eventoutside of a stop last October for her longtime pal, former DNC chair and now Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe.

With top tickets for tonights dinner, reception and a photo with Clinton going for $32,400, the fundraiser for the Grassroots Victory Project 2014 was held at the upmarket Tavern restaurant on San Vicente Blvd, as Deadline revealed earlier this month. Attendees were also able to give $211,200 to Grassroots directly. While the ever present gaggle of protesters were there and Clintons visit to LA came with a very apparent security force, it did not have the sweeping Service Service road closures causingtraffic chaoslikePresidentObamas trip 10 days ago fora fundraiser at the home of Gwyneth Paltrow.

In line with the recent visits by Vice President Joe Biden and Obama, Clintons hoovering up of Hollywood dough comes midway through a multi-state foray withthe Congressional midterm elections looming. Before arriving in LA this afternoon, Clinton was in San Francisco earlier today and raised $1.4 million for the DCCC. Tomorrow she is in Colorado tomorrow and Massachusetts on Friday among other stops in the tried-and-true pattern of a candidate looking to gather chits to cash in later. Speaking of cash, the financial support of Katzenberg and other Hollywood deep pockets is another fundamental component of any Clinton 2016 run support the ex-NY Senator clearly has at this point.

Among her previous stops on the campaign trail over the pastmonth, Clinton stumped for Kentucky Senate hopeful Alison Lundergan Grimes last week. The Grimes campaign has special significance for the primary host of tonights event as Katzenberg has made unseating Senate Minority Leader and Kentuckys current senior senatorMitch McConnell his primary aim of this years midterms. To that end, the DWA CEO has contributed the maximum allowed to the current Bluegrass state Secretary of States coffers and has introduced Grimesto other big Tinseltown donors at fundraisers in both LA and NYC.

Clinton of course needs no introduction.

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Hillary Clinton Raises Record $2.1M At Jeffrey Katzenberg Co-Hosted Hollywood Fundraiser

Former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton's ultra-elite Hollywood fundraiser at Tavern restaurant in Brentwood on Monday raised $2.1 million for Democrats in tight Senate races, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

Tickets for the dinner, co-hosted by Jeffrey Katzenberg and Steven Spielberg, sold for $32,400 per person, but donors also were given the option of contributing up to $211,200 to the Grassroots Victory Project 2014, a joint fundraising committee authorized by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee to benefit candidates around the country, making the fundraiser the largest of the season.

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In April, aU.S. Supreme Court decision struck down campaign contribution limits that prevented donors from giving more than $123,200 to candidates, political party committees and political action committees per two-year election cycle. The decision also nixed limits on contributions to parties and PACs, making way for super-sized joint fundraising committees, like the Grassroots Victory Project.

According to campaign finance reports, Grassroots raised $1.3 million during the July through September reporting period, with Boston-based investor Ian Simmons accounting for the single largest donation of $150,000. Now, with Hollywood's deep pockets focused on the group, expect the names of industry bigwigs to turn up in the next filing.

An invitation to the Clinton event, obtained by THR, singled out a number of Hollywood favorites as beneficiaries. They included Kentucky candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes, Georgia candidate Michelle Nunn, West Virginia candidate Natalie Tennant, Colorado Sen. Mark Udall, Alaska Sen. Mark Begich, Arkansas Sen. Mark Pryor and North Carolina Sen. Kay Hagan.

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The event's lengthy list of co-chairs included Walt Disney Studios chairman Alan Horn and wife Cindy, Casey and Laura Wasserman, and LiveNation CEO Michael Rapino and wife Jolene Blalock. Also attending the event were Cameron Diaz, Eva Longoria and Jim Parsons.

Katzenberg introduced Clinton to a crowd of about 60 people at Tavern, where the former secretary of state talked about the importance of keeping a Democratic majority in the Senate to implement immigration reform and other key Obama initiatives. Although Clinton did not specifically talk about whether or not she would seek election in 2016, people in the room treated her like she was already running, according to one source.

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Hillary Clinton Hollywood Fundraiser Nets $2.1M for Democrats