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WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 23: Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks at the Center for American Progress March 23, 2015 in Washington, DC. Win McNamee, Getty Images

By Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Anthony Salvanto, and Fred Backus

Most Americans (65 percent) say their opinion of Clinton has not changed in the wake of the email controversy, but 29 percent say their opinion of her has grown worse. Forty-nine percent of Republicans say their opinion of her is worse, as do 28 percent of independents.

More generally, 26 percent of Americans now have a favorable view of Hillary Clinton, while 37 percent view her unfavorably; another third are undecided or don't have an opinion of her. As Clinton weighs a presidential bid, her favorable views are 12 points lower than they were in the fall of 2013, just months after leaving her position as secretary of state. Her unfavorable views have ticked up slightly, but the percentage that is undecided about her has risen eight points.

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Clinton's highest favorable rating in CBS News polling occurred in March 2009, early in her tenure as Secretary of State, when 58 percent of Americans viewed her favorably. Clinton received her lowest favorable rating - 24 percent - in June 2003, soon after the publication of her memoir Living History.

Negative views of Clinton have risen among Republicans. Seventy-two percent hold an unfavorable view of her today, compared to 60 percent almost two years ago. Also, the percentage of independents who view Clinton favorably is now half of what it was in the fall of 2013. Many independents now say they are undecided or don't know enough about Clinton to have an opinion. Most Democrats (55 percent) continue to hold favorable views of Clinton but that percentage has dropped eight points since November 2013.

When asked to evaluate Hillary Clinton on some key characteristics, the public gives Clinton her most negative marks on honesty. Fewer than half - 42 percent- say she is honest and trustworthy, while more - 47 percent - don't think she is.

Clinton gets more positive assessments on leadership and empathy. Fifty-seven percent says she has strong qualities of leadership, while 38 percent don't think she does.

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Joe Biden may come under pressure to decide whether he will challenge Hillary Clinton for the White House sooner than anticipated, as liberal anxiety has prompted multiplying grassroots supporters to wonder if the vice-president might be knocked from his perch of studied neutrality and into a presidential bid.

A third-party political action committee urging Biden to challenge Clinton from the left in the smoldering controversy over her email arrangements has ballooned tenfold in the past week alone, the Guardian has learned, even as advisers close to the vice-president insist that he will wait and see about a 2016 run they say he is still seriously considering.

Hints that the Democratic search for alternatives to Clinton may be more heartfelt than previously thought an earnest progressive case for an Al Gore candidacy emerged last week, and the email controversy has created air pockets in Clintons popularity ahead of her expected run has some eyes wandering anew in the direction of the current White House.

Now, with Republican candidates launching formal campaigns and the Clinton machine not far behind, Biden supporters are for the first time displaying organizational structure: a Draft Biden web site last week that has gone from a list of 2,000 supporters to 20,000 backers nationwide, director Will Pierce told the Guardian.

Whats more, Pierce said, they are getting help from old Biden hands.

Since we started this, a lot of people from Bidens past, from when he was a United States senator as well as when he ran for president, have been coming out and supporting it and getting involved, said Pierce, who said he has worked on political campaigns for about 10 years. Weve been feeding from their firehose, just because its been a lot of support.

Biden has said for months that he will wait until summer before deciding whether to jump into what would be a battle against Clinton for the Democratic nomination for president. In January, Biden told ABC News that theres a chance he would run. I dont think you have to make up your mind until the summer, he said. I think this is wide open on both sides.

But from the vice-presidents perspective, the question has not changed, said Ted Kaufman, who was chief of staff for Biden for two decades in the Senate and was appointed to succeed him as senator after Bidens elevation to the vice-presidency.

His situation is the same as he talked about at the end of last year, that he was going to decide this summer, Kaufman told the Guardian on Tuesday. The main criterion is, what would he bring to the race, in terms of the ideas he cares most about.

Nothings really changed, the last four-five months, in terms of his position on running.

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Hillary Clinton has been in the public eye for a very long time, which means much has been written about her -- including quite a few adjectives.But some of these adjectives are now off-limits.

That'saccording tothe Clinton "Super Volunteers," who havepromised to track the media's use of words theybelieve to be sexist code words.The New York Times's Amy Chozick tweeted amissive she received from the group (which we would note is almost definitely not connected to official Team Clinton) on Wednesday:

So these words are now off the table: "polarizing," "calculating," "disingenuous," "insincere," "ambitious," "inevitable," "entitled," "over-confident," "secretive," "will do anything to win," "represents the past," and "out of touch."

Also apparently off the table: "tone deaf" -- at least according to a new Twitter account that appears to be from the group:

The thinking here, of course, is that these kinds of words are attached to Clinton in a way that they wouldn't be attached to male candidates -- thatpeople wouldn't call Clinton "ambitious" if she weren't a woman, that there is a double-standard for such traits.

But do the media actually use these words to describe Clinton? Well, yes, but only if you loosely define "the media" as "the conservative media" and "people who don't like Hillary Clinton."

In fact, if you Google "Hillary Clinton" and "calculating," there are 140,000 results. The first slew of results come from conservative outlets like The Daily Caller, The Blaze, Breitbart, the Daily Telegraph and also the Republican "America Rising" super PAC. One result comes from the Los Angeles Times, but it's a defense Bill Clinton lodged in 2007 against the attacks.

"Calculating" is almost completely something used to attack Clinton or describe the attacks on her. The same goes for "disingenuous," "insincere," "entitled," "secretive," "over-confident," "represents the past" and "out of touch." These are all loaded words and not terms used casuallyby mainstream media journalists like Chozick to describe a politician.

The same cannot be said for some other words. "Polarizing" is a word that has long followed Clinton, as has "ambitious," and "inevitable."

And some of thesewords should indeed be reined in -- ifnot necessarily for the reason this group wants.

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The "Ready-For-Action Figure" sports a blue pantsuit and beige heels. The Kickstarter campaign set up by its Brooklyn-based designers has already reached its $15,000 fundraising goal.

And they've promised to make a version in a pink pantsuit as well if they hit $60,000.

The superhero version of Clinton "can solve any international crisis with a single joke, (is) strong enough to wrestle Russian bears, yet cool enough to diffuse any Korean missile," quips the promotional video.

"Smart, bold, and stylish -- the world has never seen a woman quite like this."

The action figure was designed by a small studio called FCTRY, which also created an Obama action figure in 2008.

The firm's crowdfunding campaign still has 14 day left, but the money raised so far is enough to get manufacturing started, according to FCTRY, which is taking donations as small as $1.

For every donor, they'll send a postcard to Clinton encouraging her to run for president. Anyone who gives $15 gets an action figure and for $40, donors will also get a "Run Hillary. Run" t-shirt.

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The makers of the action figure, who clearly hope that Clinton will become the first woman president, stress that she's not a "doll" like Barbie, which can send the wrong message to girls.

Hillary Clinton is a "positive female role model," they write.

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Sen. Rand Paul wants Hillary Clinton to return foreign donations to foundation
Sen. Rand Paul attacks Hillary Clinton, saying the Clinton Foundation has accepted donations from countries with bad records on women #39;s rights.

By: Boston Herald

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