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She is the leading global voice championing the empowerment of girls and women, but of the eight Democratic women Hillary Clinton stumped for in the 2014 midterm cycle, only one was declared a winner.

She is the prospective frontrunner for her partys presidential nomination in 2016, but of the 26 Democrats Clinton campaigned for in the midterms, 12 won, 13 lost, and one Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana lingers in uncertainty, facing a Dec. 6 runoff election against her Republican opponent.

This cycle marked Hillary Clintons return to the arena of electoral politics for the first time since her failed presidential bid in 2008 secretaries of state traditionally abstain from partisan activity and for those scouring the newly refashioned landscape for indications of how Clintons White House prospects may be affected, the results are decidedly mixed.

Supporters of the former secretary of state argue that, despite having eschewed the rough and tumble of politics for six years, she used her time on the stump this fall to good effect, forging new and strong ties with local party chieftains in states where such connections will prove valuable to a presidential run in two years.

I think Hillary Clinton did yeoman's work in campaigning out there for Democrats, said Patti Solis Doyle, a former Clinton campaign manager in 2008, in an interview with Fox News. She did what she could to help her friends, and very strong Democrats out there. She raised money for them; she campaigned for them.

Solis Doyle emphasized that neither Clintons name nor her policies were on the ballot on Tuesday but that hasnt stopped some of her potential rivals from spreading the word that the big GOP gains marked a major setback for her aspirations. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., the GOPs 2012 vice presidential nominee, told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt that Tuesdays verdict tells you that shes not inevitable. I think shes very beatable.

More pointed was Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who took to Twitter with unabashed glee to brand the 13 unsuccessful candidates Clinton stumped for Hillarys Losers. The 1990s was a long time ago, Paul said on Fox and Friends on Friday morning. I don't think there is such a Clinton cachet as there once was. ... There is a message here about Hillary Clinton as much as there is a message about the president.

Doug Schoen, a former pollster for President Clinton, dismissed Sen. Pauls suggestions that Mrs. Clinton remains, in the public imagination, tied at the hip to the unpopular incumbent in the White House. This election was a repudiation, first and foremost, as every Republican I've heard say, of President Obama, Schoen said on Fox News' Happening Now on Wednesday. I think that the Clinton brand is separate and distinct from President Obama. I don't think this has an appreciable impact on her fortunes and future.

With long memories of the central role that Florida and Ohio have played in recent presidential contests, Clinton and her Democratic colleagues cannot have looked favorably upon the Republicans success on Tuesday in holding onto the governors mansions in those critical battleground states. Some have argued that she will benefit from the GOP wave by being able to run against the GOP Congress.

Yet in the actual business of campaigning the deployment of rhetoric and charisma to sway persuadable hearts and minds Clintons performance again left some feeling as though she has still not worked out the kinks on display in her rocky book tour this spring. Perhaps Clintons most memorable statement as a surrogate speaker during this cycle was her assertion, during an Oct. 24 appearance in Boston on behalf of (doomed) Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate Martha Coakley: Dont let anybody tell you that its corporations and businesses that create jobs.

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Clinton faces tough fight in 2016 after midterms