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A super-political action committee urging former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to run for president in 2016 said it raised more than $1.7 million in the first three months of this year.

The super-PAC, Ready for Hillary, has collected $5.75 million from 55,000 people since the pro-Clinton effort was created a year ago, according to a release from the PAC today. In the quarter, 22,000 new contributors gave an average of $53, with 9,500 donating a symbolic $20.16, according to a statement.

Clinton, 66, has said she will make a decision on a White House bid by the end of this year. She has a big lead over other Democrats in early voter preference surveys. Eighty-two percent of Democrats want her to run for president, according to a New York Times/CBS poll in February.

I am thinking about it, Clinton, a former U.S. senator from New York, said April 8 after a speech in San Francisco. Im not going to make a decision for a while because Im actually enjoying my life.

Ready for Hillary will file a report to the Federal Election Commission by April 15 detailing its donors and spending for the first quarter.

It previously raised $4 million in 2013 from donors including billionaire Alice Walton, the daughter of Bentonville, Arkansas-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc. founder Sam Walton, and billionaire financier George Soros.

Walton and Soros each gave $25,000, the maximum donation Ready for Hillary is accepting even though super-PACs are permitted to accept contributions in unlimited amounts. The PACs leaders say they want to focus on building grassroots support by identifying supporters on Facebook, shipping bumper stickers and holding pro-Clinton events.

The PAC said it has identified 2 million Clinton supporters and have persuaded 700,000 people to sign a pledge to help her win if she runs. Contributions were received from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and U.S. territories, the group said.

Priorities USA Action, a super-PAC that aired television ads in 2012 promoting President Barack Obama and attacking Republican challenger Mitt Romney, is preparing to aid a Clinton 2016 campaign.

To contact the reporter on this story: Greg Giroux in Washington at ggiroux@bloomberg.net

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Hillary Clinton was noncommittal when asked about a presidential bid in 2016 during a Clinton Global Initiative event hosted by comedian Jimmy Kimmel. Clinton she said she's 'very concerned' about the country's direction. (Posted April 9, 2014)

5:51 a.m. CDT, April 9, 2014

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Asked again the question on the mind of everyone who follows U.S. politics, Hillary Clinton said Tuesday she was "thinking" about running for president in 2016.

"Part of it is because the hard questions are not: 'Do you want to be president? Can you win?' The hard questions are why. 'Why would you want to do this and what can you offer that could make a difference?'" Clinton said in a video of the exchange posted on the Internet.

"I saw it from afar when I was secretary and it was disheartening and even embarrassing to see people arguing about letting us default on our debt, really, and things that were just so beyond the pale," said Clinton, who served as secretary of state in Obama's first term.

Clinton, who has been giving speeches across the country since leaving the State Department last year, frequently deflects questions about her presidential ambitions. The former first lady has said she is considering a White House bid, but that she will not make a decision before the end of 2014.

"I'm not going to make a decision for a while because I'm actually enjoying my life," Clinton said on Tuesday. "I'm actually having fun."

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Lets assume that Hillary Clinton was serious the other day when she said that excessive partisanship was taking America backwards. That means shes on the phone right now reading the riot act to fellow Democrats Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer.

Yeah, right.

Clintons pose of rising above the political scrum made for a good headline just as her party is plumbing new depths of mud and smears. Reid and Schumer are tarring David and Charles Koch in ways that smack of McCarthyism, though Tail Gunner Joe at least found a few real Communists.

Reid, a nasty little man who demeans the office of Senate majority leader, called the Koch brothers un-American because they dare to spend their own money advancing causes he doesnt like. Reid, of course, spends public money advancing causes the public doesnt like.

Schumer, hoping to succeed Reid, obviously thinks the way to success is to ape his mentors worst instincts. In the process, he proves the adage that sometimes, party asks too much, though its hard to know where party ends and personal ambition begins.

To continue reading Michael Goodwin's column in the New York Post, click here.

Michael Goodwin is a Fox News contributor and New York Post columnist.

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