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Formerly the First Lady and a senator from New York, Hillary Rodham Clinton was the U.S. Secretary of State from 2009-13. She is the wife of former President Bill Clinton, and the first American First Lady to be elected to national office. After graduating from Wellesley College in 1969, Hillary Rodham went to Yale Law School, where she met Bill Clinton, a fellow student. She served as a staff attorney for the Childrens Defense Fund and was also on the congressional Impeachment Inquiry staff in 1974, at the tail end of Richard Nixons Watergate scandal. Hillary married Bill Clinton and left Washington for Arkansas in 1975. She raised their daughter Chelsea and practiced law during Clintons 12 years as the states governor. Bill Clinton was elected president in 1992 and Hillary Clinton became a somewhat controversial First Lady, weathering criticism about everything from her hairstyles to her involvement in public policy to her role in a questionable Arkansas land deal (the so-called Whitewater affair). She also endured her husbands much-publicized affair with intern Monica Lewinsky and supported him during the subsequent impeachment hearings. In 2000 the Clintons took residency in New York and Hillary Clinton was elected to the U.S. Senate, in the same year that George W. Bush was elected to succeed her husband. She was re-elected to a second term in 2006. She ran for the Democratic nomination for president in 2008, finally conceding to fellow senator Barack Obama after a lengthy campaign. After winning the general election that November, Obama nominated Hillary Clinton to the post of Secretary of State. She was confirmed and took office on 21 January 2009, the day after Obamas inauguration. She served throughout Obamas first term, but stepped down in 2013; she was succeeded as Secretary of State by former senator John Kerry. On April 12, 2015, Hillary Clinton announced that she would again be a candidate for president in 2016.

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For much of 2015, the political questions concerning former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have been whether or not she can hold the lead. She entered the year the clear favorite to win the Democratic nomination. She was, in fact, the most dominant frontrunner since, well, Hillary Clinton eight years ago.

And thats what made some of her supporters nervous. She never should have lost that lead to then-Senator Barack Obama. But she did.

Clinton appears to have learned from that experience. Despite a shaky start to the formal campaign and the self-induced email debacle, she has held onto her dominant lead all year. Next summer, Clinton is almost certain to become the first woman ever nominated for president by a major political party.

At that point, though, the challenge for Hillary Clinton is likely to be much different. Rather than worrying about whether she can hold the lead and run out the clock, the question will become whether or not she can pull off a come-from-behind victory. In all likelihood, the Republican nominee will start off the general election season as the favorite.

That perspective may sound crazy to Clinton supporters and many in the DC media club. They see the Democratic frontrunner as obviously experienced and qualified in contrast to the leading GOP candidates.

But fundamentals drive elections more than candidates. The most important measure of the political climate is the presidents job approval rating. At the moment, President Obamas ratings are in the low-to-mid 40s. Thats a danger ground suggesting that he will be a drag on his partys nominee. At the moment, its a problem for Clinton rather than a crisis. But if the presidents ratings go much lower, it will become extraordinarily difficult for the Democrats to retain the White House.

On top of that, consumer confidence has just fallen to its lowest level in over a year. An index of manufacturing sentiment is now at the lowest level in more than two years. The country may not be in a recession, but the economic recovery is anemic.

And then theres the foreign policy disarray in the wake of the Paris attacks. Foreign policy generally has only a modest impact on elections and 2016 is not likely to be any different. However, to the degree that national security becomes an issue at all, its a double whammy for Clinton. First, because voters tend to trust Republicans more than Democrats on national security issues. Second, because any national security claims will turn Clintons experience as Secretary of State from a positive to a negative.

Finally, Clintons very success at clearing the Democratic field is likely to haunt her general election campaign. Senator Bernie Sanders and Governor Martin OMalley are not really pushing her the way she pushed Barack Obama eight years ago. Obama became a much better debater and candidate because of Clinton. The current president also gained stature merely by defeating her. Clinton will enjoy no such advantage.

Obviously, there is a lot of time before Election Day in November, 2016. Anything could happen. Its possible the GOP could self-destruct and split in two or that Donald Trump could run as an independent candidate. But barring such a lucky break, Hillary Clinton will likely begin her fall campaign as an underdog.

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In New Hampshire Thursday, Clinton called directly for gun control, telling audiences throughout the state that the shooting proved the government needs "to take action now" on guns. At the time, the shootings' link to terrorism was tenuous.

"I don't see any conflict at all between going after the terrorists with everything we have got... and doing more on gun safety measures," Clinton said in response to a CNN question during a press conference at the end of a swing through Iowa. "I know that we can save lives and we shouldn't be conflating the two."

Asked if she had any regrets in the way she pushed for gun control yesterday, Clinton said, "No, not at all. We don't know how they got that arsenal inside their house, we have no idea. We don't know if it was stolen, if it was bought by someone else and handed off to them. We don't know."

Republicans hit Clinton -- and other Democrats -- on Friday for pushing gun control.

"Not only was @HillaryClinton wrong about San Bernardino, she wants to deny Americans their #2A right to self defense," the National Rifle Association, a group Clinton has directly gone after for much of her presidential campaign, tweeted on Friday.

Sen. Marco Rubio, a Republican candidate for president, said the push for gun control after the attack is "just typical of the political left in America."

"I mean they didn't even know any of the facts about this and they immediately jumped on it as an opportunity to push their gun control agenda even though no gun laws would have prevented this from occurring," Rubio said in New Hampshire. "We need terrorist control."

Clinton said during the presser that questioning whether one of her top gun issues -- banning people on the "No Fly List" from purchasing weapons -- would have prevented what happened in San Bernardino was "like the question: 'How do you prove a negative?'"

"I don't know exactly what it would have or could have prevented," she said. "I do know we've got to start implementing sensible gun safety measures and this seems among the most sensible that I know of."

Clinton's comments came at the end of her daylong swing through Iowa, where she headlined an event in Sioux City with the latest member of Obama's cabinet to endorse her, Secretary of Labor Tom Perez. Clinton then headlined a town hall at a Fort Dodge, Iowa community college, where she spoke how the shooting was now being considered "an act of terrorism."

"It is incumbent upon all of us to understand that this is going to be a long struggle," Clinton said, ruling out putting American troops on the ground but pushing for more work combating ISIS online.

Clinton did not directly answer a question about whether the United States has become too sensitive to civil liberties concerns given that law enforcement now say one of the attackers used the internet and social media to interface with possible terrorists.

"I think we are always trying to get the balance right between liberty and privacy and security and safety and that has been a balancing act from the very beginning of our country," Clinton said, touting her support for the USA Freedom Act, a law that ended the bulk collection of phone metadata and reformed surveillance practices.

"We just have to have a broad, very careful analysis of what we think will work to try to cripple them in cyberspace," Clinton said. "I will be promoting and looking for ideas about it."

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