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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tends to be much more popular when she's out of politics rather than in the thick of it, a new poll finds.

The latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released Tuesday found that 43 percent of registered voters say they have a positive view of Clinton, a sharp drop from her approval rating of 59 percent in February 2009 when she had just been named President Obama's secretary of state. Forty-one percent of registered voters said in the most recent poll that they view Clinton negatively, compared with just 22 percent in 2009.

Polling from the same outlets has shown that Clinton's favorability remained over 50 percent during her entire tenure at the State Department and began their serious decline after she left office in the beginning of 2013.

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Other politicians have not seen the same trend. Two former presidents, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, both saw their approval ratings rise once they left office. The difference, of course, is that Hillary Clinton's political life is not over as she is thinking about running for president again.

Her approval rating is especially precarious among Republicans. Although roughly a quarter of registered GOP voters said they viewed Clinton positively in 2009, that number fell to just 14 percent in the latest poll. Her negative ratings also jumped from 52 percent in 2009 to 70 percent this month among Republicans.

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Washington (CNN) -- Ready for Hillary, a super PAC founded by Hillary Clinton devotees, has started to grease the wheels of state politics, currying favor with local Democrats by exchanging important data about the group's supporters with Senate and House campaigns ahead of the 2014 midterms.

The list exchanges are a clear attempt by the super PAC to build goodwill and to win over state parties ahead of a possible Clinton presidential run in 2016.

To date, the PAC has exchanged records with campaigns in 14 different states: Six U.S. Senate campaigns, four House races, four gubernatorial campaigns and three Democratic committees and organizations, according to a person familiar with the list swaps.

In return, Ready for Hillary is receiving data from each campaign and growing their list of possible volunteers and donors ahead of 2016.

Representatives from the group declined to name specific campaigns with which they have swapped names, citing confidentially agreements with each campaign.

Ready for Hillary has built the list a number of ways.

Supporters become part of the group's voter file when they give a donation or attend an event put on by the group. The PAC has held over 500 events across the country -- the majority of which were in early presidential primary and caucus states. All of those names, emails and phone numbers, along with some other details, go into the Ready for Hillary voter file.

Although seemingly simple, there is power in the names. Some political data experts argue a good data file is worth more than donations.

A former state party data director, who asked for anonymity to speak candidly, said getting names from a national organization is an "enormously helpful."

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Hillary Clinton explained how she sees technology fitting into the recovering US economy, at Nexenta OpenSDx conference. Here are nine things we learned.

Presumed presidential candidate and former Secretary of State and First Lady Hillary Clinton discussed her views on tech last week, speaking at the Nexenta OpenSDx conference in San Francisco. Addressing a crowd that included the CEOs of several major tech companies, she confessed to being a little out of her depth.

"I have to start by admitting I'm not an expert in software-defined storage. Or the intricacies of cloud computing," she said, drawing amused applause. "But I have learned enough to be tremendously excited about how the advances you are making are helping to build a 21st century American economy that is vibrant and dynamic, and if we make smart choices and investments, inclusive and broadly shared as well."

What could another Clinton administration mean for the tech industry and the nation at large? Here are nine things we learned from Hillary Clinton's appearance at OpenSDx.

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1. Clinton believes cloud computing, big data, and SDN are engines for US economic growth. Clinton emphasized that tech has and will continue to play a key role in America's recovery from the Great Recession. "The power of the Internet wasn't just dot-coms," she said. "It was wonderful to see new companies creating jobs, but more important were the productivity gains that computing and the Internet brought to industries we wouldn't think of as being high-tech."

Clinton argued current tech trends such as cloud computing, big data analytics, and software-defined architectures will fuel future rounds of US growth. She briefly cited a range of ways in which new technologies will change traditionally non-tech fields, from farmers' use of weather data to stores that use real-time data to optimize retail and distribution operations. She also echoed a favorite talking point of her husband, former president Bill Clinton, describing tech's potential impact on healthcare alone as "staggering."

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With a public record spanning more than two decades, there is little left to learn about Hillary Rodham Clinton except where she stands on a host of key issues.

As she gears up for a likely presidential run in 2016, the former secretary of state has been deliberately vague, analysts say, in her positions on National Security Agency snooping, the violence in Ferguson, Missouri, central aspects of the Obama administrations foreign policy and other issues.

With no obvious, viable threat to her partys nomination, Mrs. Clinton is able to straddle the fence on any number of controversial topics with little consequence, analysts say.

Last month, Mrs. Clinton offered seemingly strong comments on the unrest in Ferguson, where a white police officer fatally shot 18-year-old Michael Brown, who was black.

In a San Francisco speech late last month, she said the racial tensions in Ferguson and elsewhere, coupled with distrust between citizens and police, are real problems that must be confronted.

Behind the dramatic, terrible pictures on television are deep challenges that will be with them and with us long after the cameras move on, she said. This is what happens when the bonds of trust and respect that hold any community together fray. Nobody wants to see our streets look like a war zone, not in America. We are better than that.

But Mrs. Clinton also measured her words carefully and went out of her way to compliment police officers in Ferguson, who have borne the brunt of the blame for Browns death and the chaos that ensued.

We saw our countrys true character in the community leaders who came out to protest peacefully and worked to restrain violence; the young people who insisted on having their voices heard; and in the many decent and respectful law enforcement officers who showed what quality law enforcement looks like, she said.

Although Mrs. Clintons words about Ferguson highlight the benefits of having such a vast lead in the Democratic presidential primary process, she was in a similar position at this same point in the 2008 election cycle. Throughout 2006, she was the presumptive nominee with an overwhelming poll lead and no viable challengers, and was carefully staking out non-alienating positions.

However, she was in fact defeated and may have to learn (and not learn) from the man who beat her: Barack Obama.

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In this Sunday, Sept. 3, 2014, photo provided by CBS News, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger talks about his views and his new book World Order in a pretaped interview for CBSs Faith but Nation which aired Sunday, ... more >

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had nothing but praise for Hillary Rodham Clinton on her own leadership of the department, even going so far as to say she did a better job than he did.

Ive known her for many years now and I respect her intellect, Mr. Kissinger, 91, told USA Today. And she ran the State Department in the most effective way that Ive ever seen.

Even better than he did?

Yes, Mr. Kissinger replied. I was more chaotic.

Mr. Kissingers kudos comes on the heels of Mrs. Clintons own gift of high praise for his newly released book, World Order.

In a review published in The Washington Post, Mrs. Clinton wrote, It is vintage Kissinger, with his singular combination of breadth and acuity along with his knack for connecting headlines to trend lines.

Mrs. Clinton, widely seen as the most viable Democratic presidential candidate for 2016, was heavily criticized for her 2013 testimony on Capitol Hill on Benghazi when she responded to repeat questioning from lawmakers about the changing White House rhetoric: Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night and decided theyd go kill some Americas. What difference at this point, what difference does it make?

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