Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama Most Admired people again
Despite a rocky year for Democrats, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Obama and have both held on to their reign as the most admired man and woman in America, coming in...
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Behold the Clinton Echo
You may hear that Hillary Clinton is stealing a page from Bill Clinton #39;s political playbook. Turns out she #39;s using his words too.
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FILE - In this Oct. 20, 2008 file photo, then-Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y. delivers a speech supporting Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., at a rally in Orlando, Fla. A still undeclared candidate, Clinton sits atop the prospective field of Democratic presidential candidates for 2016. But as she has said before, if Clinton runs again, she'll work as hard as any underdog. Clinton's 2008 presidential bid stumbled against President Barack Obama, undermined by anti-war activists who opposed her vote to authorize the Iraq war, infighting among her staff and a large entourage in the early states where retail politics matter. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) - A still undeclared candidate, Hillary Rodham Clinton sits atop the prospective field of Democratic presidential candidates for 2016. But as Clinton has said before, if she runs again, she'll work as hard as any underdog.
Clinton's 2008 presidential bid stumbled against President Barack Obama, undermined by anti-war activists who opposed her vote to authorize the Iraq war, infighting among her staff and a large entourage in the early states where retail politics matter.
How she attempts to address those deficiencies - assuming she runs for president, as expected - will be a big part of Clinton's efforts next year. Here's a look at five things to watch from Clinton in 2015.
ANNOUNCEMENT: Speculation about the timing of Clinton's announcement has been rampant. Some Democrats wanted her to make it official after the party's dreadful midterm elections. Clinton has scheduled some paid speeches into March, raising the possibility that she will hold off until spring. Democratic insiders expect a different approach this time - recall her January 2007 video declaring, "I'm in to win" - that harnesses the grassroots activists sowed by outside super PACs and allows her to make a big splash in online fundraising. "All of these supporters are a ready-made asset, eager to help promote her message and to stand by her in what we can safely expect to be a relentless, even unprecedented, swamp of negativity from her opponents," said Tracy Sefl, an adviser to Ready for Hillary.
RATIONALE: Clinton has said anyone who runs for president needs to have a specific agenda and have a reason to run. She offered hints at what her rationale might be during the fall campaign, advocating for middle-class economic prosperity, paid leave for working mothers and a hike in the minimum wage. The party's liberal wing will look for signs that she might offer a brand of economic populism that have made them gravitate to Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who says she's not running in 2016.
OBAMA: Where Clinton embraces the president's agenda, and where she seeks to separate herself from him, will be closely scrutinized. Obama was a liability for many Democrats during the 2014 midterm elections and saw his approval ratings sink during the year. Clinton will need to remain loyal enough to the president to maintain his voting coalition while displaying enough independence to appeal to those who have grown weary of Obama. Succeeding a two-term president in your own party is never easy.
TEAM: How Clinton assembles a campaign team could be instructive of what she's learned since 2008. Back then, her campaign was beset by internal tensions and fights over strategy. This time, Clinton will have her pick of the party's top talent and Democrats expect her to build upon the technical know-how of the Obama campaigns. White House adviser John Podesta, a former Bill Clinton chief of staff, could serve in a senior role. Her team could include Clinton veterans like Robby Mook, who ran Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe's 2013 race, Ace Smith, who advised California Gov. Jerry Brown's re-election this year, and Stephanie Schriock, the president of Democratic fundraising power EMILY's List. Guy Cecil, who led the Senate Democrats' campaign arm, said in a statement first reported by Politico last week that he was taking himself out of the running for a top campaign job.
GETTING OUT OF THE BUBBLE: Clinton often faced criticism in 2007 and 2008 that her large entourage and Secret Service protection made it difficult for her to connect with voters on a one-on-one basis. Some of her campaign trips this fall included off-schedule stops at restaurants and coffee shops. But Clinton has yet to interact with voters in a personal way that remains common in early states like Iowa and New Hampshire. "That is now her greatest challenge: to get into the field and be with the people who form the storyline of her narrative about women and America's economy," wrote California Democratic strategist Karen Skelton, a former political aide in Bill Clinton's White House. She suggested the former first lady's team "figure out how to use this time to allow her to go back to a stripped-down version of her life."
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5 things for Hillary Clinton in 2015
PRINCETON, N.J., Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Hillary Clinton topped Gallup's most admired women list for the 13th straight year, while President Barack Obama remained the most-admired man.
Clinton, former first lady, senator and secretary of state, has, in fact, been on top of the list for 17 of the past 18 years, losing out to Laura Bush in 2001 immediately after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Clinton has topped the list a total of 19 times, seven times more than Eleanor Roosevelt.
Obama has been the most admired man throughout his presidency. This year, he was the choice of 19 percent of respondents.
While Clinton was chosen by 12 percent of those polled by the Gallup Organization, 8 percent selected Oprah Winfrey, who in recent years has had a lock on the No. 2 spot. Clinton's lead was the smallest since 2007, when she was only 2 percentage points ahead of Winfrey.
Malala Yousafzai, this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, was in third place with 5 percent, followed by former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice with 4 percent and Michelle Obama at 3 percent. Angelina Jolie, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and the Duchess of Cambridge, referred to by Gallup as Princess Kate, were tied at 2 percent. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Laura Bush rounded out the top 10 with 1 percent each.
Obama was followed by Pope Francis at 6 percent, President Bill Clinton, 3 percent, and the Rev. Billy Graham and President George W. Bush with 2 percent each. Six men were tied at the bottom of the list with 1 percent each: Dr. Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon and potential Republican presidential contender, physicist Stephen Hawking, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, conservative TV personality Bill O'Reilly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Gallup said Hillary Clinton's numbers tend to go down when she is seen as a partisan figure -- at the moment as the likely Democratic presidential nominee in 2016. A CNN/ORC poll released Monday reported she was the choice of two-thirds of Democrats, far ahead of Warren, in second place with only 9 percent.
Carson was the only person in the crowded field of possible Republican presidential contenders to make it to the Top 10 most admired list. The CNN poll found that Jeb Bush, George W.'s brother, is emerging as a frontrunner, the choice of 23 percent of Republicans.
Queen Elizabeth II, who did not make it to the Top 10 this year, has been there a record 46 times since Gallup began compiling the list in 1946, followed by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Winfrey and Clinton. On the men's side, Graham holds the record with 58 appearances in the Top 10, followed by President Ronald Reagan, President Jimmy Carter, Pope John Paul II and President Bill Clinton.
Gallup polled 805 U.S. adults by telephone between Dec. 8 and Dec. 11 for this year's list.
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TIME Politics 2016 Election Hillary Clinton Hillary Clinton gazes pensively into the distance at Iowa Senator Tom Harken'a annual Steak Fry in Indianola, Iowa on September 14, 2014. Brooks KraftCorbis for TIME
Like other presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton had an opinion on just about everything in 2008. How to reform the U.S. health care system? Check. What to do about climate change? Check. Even minor issues like how to lower the price of gas required her to come up with a plan.
But when she became Secretary of State, Clinton followed tradition and kept her opinions to herself, especially on domestic policy. And since leaving Foggy Bottom in 2013, shes mostly avoided specifics.
She says shes in favor of protecting the environment, for example, but has yet to stake out her position on fracking or the Keystone XL pipeline. She says shes against eliminating net neutrality, but has yet to say what, exactly, the government ought to do to protect it. And while shes talked a big game about U.S. military engagement abroad, its unclear how her positions on, say, Ukraine or Iraq would differ from those of President Obama.
That ambiguity is understandable. She doesnt hold public office. Shes not officially on the ballot. And committing to a position publicly limits her future options, politically. But given how many times she hasnt taken a position on the issue of the day, its worth noting the handful of times she has.
Heres a look at the nine most substantive policy positions Clinton has staked out since stepping down as Secretary of State.
1) The U.S. needs serious immigration reform. When President Obama announced his controversial executive order in November shielding up to five million undocumented immigrants, Clinton tweeted her approval within minutes, and then followed up with a statement calling for immediate, bipartisan and comprehensive immigration that would focus finite resources on deporting felons rather than families.
2) The U.S. should have armed the rebels in Syria. In an interview with the Atlantics Jeffrey Goldberg in August, Clinton blamed the rise of the so-called Islamic State, or ISIS, on the U.S. not doing enough to support moderate rebels when the Syrian civil war first broke out. The failure to help build up a credible fighting force of the people who were the originators of the protests against Assad there were Islamists, there were secularists, there was everything in the middle the failure to do that left a big vacuum, which the jihadists have now filled, she said. That said, Clintons ideas on how to rout ISIS now appear to be more or less the same as Obamas.
3) Gay people should be allowed to marry. In March 2013, Clinton formally announced in her support for gay marriage, marking a major reversal of the position shed held for decades. Her rivals criticized her for jumping on the bandwagon only after the issue of gay marriage had become widely acceptable, but she defended herself as a thinking human who is allowed to evolve on issues.
4) Americans shouldnt torture people. At a human rights awards dinner in December, Clinton made her first public comments about torture since the Senate released its controversial report on the issue earlier this month. She said unequivocally that she is against illegal renditions and brutal interrogation methods. The U.S. should never condone or practice torture anywhere in the world, she said.
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