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Little Rock, Arkansas (CNN) -- Hillary Clinton is the prohibitive favorite for the Democrats' presidential nomination in 2016. And there are countless political operatives with opinions on how she should run her all-but-certain campaign.

That combination has led to tons of unsolicited advice thrown at the former secretary of state, some of it counter intuitive and a lot of contradictory. Here are the five pieces of unsolicited advice being volleyed regularly at Hillary Clinton:

1.) Run from Obama

President Barack Obama took most of the blame for Democrats' losses on Nov. 4. So shortly after Election Day, a cacophony of anonymous allies were telling Clinton to run away from the president she served under for four years.

"She is not President Obama. Let's not forget, they were a team of rivals," one ally told The Hill. "Now is the time to further enunciate these differences."

Clinton allies expressed similar sentiments to CNN. The thinking goes that if the president is unpopular, Clinton should start distance herself now, as opposed to months down the road when it may be harder.

2.) Run to Obama

Clinton allies have also been telling reporters that because Republican pickups in Senate create a larger target for both her and the President, it would make sense for them to join forces.

"President Obama's legacy is now entirely dependent on the election of a Democratic successor as president who will protect and extend it, not demolish it," David Brock, the chairman of a pro-Clinton super PAC, told the Washington Post. "Should she run, they both now have a common enemy in a Republican Congress that will define politics through 2016."

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For the past five years, a prominent Democratic operative who is a leading contender to manage a Hillary Clinton presidential campaign has maintained a private email listserv for friends and associates that carries a provocative name: the Mook Mafia.

The listserv, which one member said reaches more than 150 fellow campaign veterans, has been a means for Robby Mook and a close friend Marlon Marshall to stay connected with many of the operatives who would likely populate a Democratic presidential campaign in 2016. Mook and Marshall have both been mentioned as possible Hillary Clinton campaign managers.

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PHOTO: DCCC's Robby Mook speaks with members of Emily's List in this Oct. 25, 2010 file photo.

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President Obama receives an update on the Affordable Care Act in the Oval Office, April 1, 2014. With the President, from left, are: Phil Schiliro, Tara McGuinness, Marlon Marshall, Jeanne Lambrew, DKristie Canegallo and Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett.

Copies of a cache of the emails obtained by ABC News, and revealed publicly for the first time, show Mook and Marshall demonstrating an aggressive tone in rallying their friends behind political causes, in exchanges that are often self-mocking and sometimes border on being profane.

They include rallying cries to, in Mooks words, smite Republicans mafia-style, and, to quote Marshall, punish those voters. Mook sometimes calls himself Deacon in the emails, while Marshall, now a senior White House aide, refers to himself as Reverend in many of the exchanges.

Their inside jokes sometimes come at the expense of fellow Democrats, including former President Bill Clinton. A November 2009 mock news release announcing the listserv in addition to a new website and an upcoming reunion for the Mook Mafia included a fabricated quote from the former president.

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Former President Bill Clinton's political family reunited Friday in Arkansas, reminiscing about his two terms in office and relishing the prospect of a first for Hillary Rodham Clinton.

"In the world of Clinton, there is not an end. There is always tomorrow," said Skip Rutherford, dean of the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service. He first met Bill Clinton in 1973.

What the future might mean for the couple depends heavily on Hillary Clinton's decision on whether to make a second bid for president and if so, the degree to which she would defend or distance herself from President Barack Obama and her husband's terms in office.

Presidential politics in 2016 swirled around the reunion. In an hourlong address capping the first day, Bill Clinton made no mention of the possibility of another Hillary Clinton campaign but said his two terms had accomplished the goals that it had set.

"At the end, on foreign and domestic policy, economic and social, you could honestly say that people were better off when we quit," Clinton said.

Even as the Clinton alumni streamed to Little Rock, the former first couple took a touch of friendly fire from Vice President Joe Biden, a potential Clinton presidential rival, on her husband's record of creating jobs during the 1990s.

The Clintons often speak of having created 23 million jobs and cutting the poverty rate during Bill Clinton's presidency. But in a speech Thursday, Biden highlighted that how that period is remembered will be important to Hillary Clinton's ambitions.

The "middle class started to get into trouble in the late '80s," Biden said. "All through the '90s ... the middle class was declining except the last two years."

Republicans, still giddy about their midterm election triumph that handed them complete control of Congress, are busily preparing for 2016.

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul assembled his political team at a Washington hotel this week for strategy sessions while former President George W. Bush has encouraged his brother, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, to run. Govs. Chris Christie of New Jersey, Scott Walker of Wisconsin and Bobby Jindal of Louisiana will head to Florida next week for an annual Republican Governors Association meeting replete with presidential overtones.

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Last evening (November 13), attorneys Mike Aguirre and Maria Severson filed a suit in federal court saying that the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and Southern California Edison took 17.4 million ratepayers' property (money) by charging them $3.7 billion for electricity while the San Onofre nuclear plant was shut down, beginning in early 2012.

The theory is that the regulatory body and Edison were taking customers' private property without just compensation. That is banned by the Fifth Amendment.

Also named in the suit are Michael Peevey, president of the commission, and Mike Florio, one of the commissioners.

The only way that the California Public Utilities Commission could force customers to pay for failed generators at San Onofre would have been to show that Edison acted reasonably in obtaining the generators, according to the suit.

However, Edison deployed the steam generators without a safety license amendment from the Nuclear Regulator Commission. The decision came from the top of Edison, says the suit. Edison has admitted there were design errors causing steam generators to fail. A nuclear scientist was hired to do a study, but when he reported there had been errors, the CPUC obstructed his investigation, thus thwarting any determination of whether Edison was responsible for the failure, according to the suit, which notes that Peevey is a former president of Edison.

San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) owns 20 percent of the now-shuttered San Onofre, but is not named in the suit because it had opposed Edison's plans for replacing the old steam generators with four new ones.

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