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Washington (CNN) -- The staffing search for a Hillary Clinton campaign manager is heating up, and a Clinton spokesman acknowledged Thursday that the former secretary of state is "casting a wide net" when talking to different people about about a would-be presidential bid.

Clinton met with Guy Cecil, the outgoing head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, on Wednesday in Washington, according to Politico, and has talked with Robby Mook, a former Clinton aide, about 2016. Both are seen as frontrunner for the top job in a Clinton campaign.

Although Clinton's spokesman said he wouldn't confirm or deny the meeting and conversations occurred, Nick Merrill acknowledged that Clinton is talking with a wide array of people about 2016.

"As she decides, she's casting a wide net and wants to hear from a variety of people on a range of specific topics, from policy ideas to what a successful campaign would look like," Merrill said in an email.

Democrats have repeatedly said that Clinton has yet to make up her mind, but according to people close to Clinton, there have long been four names in the campaign manager race: Cecil, Mook, Stephanie Schriock and Ace Smith.

Here is what you need to know about each.

Cecil:

Although Cecil, as executive director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, was at the helm when Democrats lost the Senate in 2014, he is close with the Clintons -- particularly Bill Clinton -- and worked as Hillary Clinton's national political and field director in 2008.

Cecil is an unpretentious figure and has won the trust of many on Capitol Hill. Earlier in his career he led the standard journeyman campaign life, working for campaigns in Arkansas, North Carolina and Colorado (where he led Sen. Michael Bennet's dark-horse win in 2010).

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While Hillary Clinton has not yet officially announced her expected candidacy in the 2016 presidential election, someone out there is eager to get the country music audience on her side early. Whether it'll work or not is another matter.

Katy Perry Offers to Write Hillary Clinton Campaign Theme Song

We all know that most states where country music is most popular also tend to lean right politically, so a new Super PAC called Stand With Hillary has released a country ballad bearing the same name with a video targeting working families. And, well, it's kind of odd.

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Though the clip was released last month, today it got the Internet's attention and Twitter users have been ready to make a mockery of it.

The track is written by Miguel Orozco, who's only other writing credit with ASCAP is the Obama Spanish Reggaeton track "Como Se Dice...Como Se Llama (Obama, Obama)." And as TMZ directs us, the clip's country musician is played by actor Jason Tobias, who is convincing in the role but will probably hold little weight with true country music fans.

Bill and Hillary Clinton Musical to Make U.S. Debut

The super PAC is run by Daniel Chavez, reports Fusion, a longtime Democratic operative with experience in former President Bill Clinton's administration and Hillary Clinton's 2008 campaign. He told the website that the PAC's intent is to promote Clinton to working-class people, young people and Latinos, and the country ballad was geared towards men specifically. There will be at least four more similar videos, as well, with one aimed at Latinos and others at millennials. So be sure to look out for those too.

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Hillary Clinton #39;s demands for her $300,000-fee speaking appearances On The Record (11.28.14)

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Backers and allies of Hillary Rodham Clinton are increasingly worried about the threat posed by a motley field of Democratic presidential hopefuls who could complicate, or even derail, a Clinton candidacy in 2016 by focusing attention on her weaknesses.

All of the possible challengers are long shots against Clinton and would face a steep climb against the well-known former secretary of state. Many Clinton supporters also say competition would help her by honing her campaigning skills and discouraging the sense of entitlement that damaged her White House bid in 2008.

But each of the emerging challengers also appeals to a constituency within the Democratic Party that Clinton has struggled with in the past. And unlike Clinton who has yet to formulate a clear message for a potential campaign each has distinct issues to build a campaign around.

Jim Webb, the former senator from Virginia who just formed an exploratory committee, is a populist native of Appalachia with potential appeal to working-class and Southern whites. Maryland Gov. Martin OMalley has been laying the groundwork of a campaign for months, focusing his energies on wooing the kind of progressive activists who view Clinton with suspicion. Sen. Bernard Sanders (I-Vt.), the gadfly socialist who is also pondering a run in the Democratic primaries, represents the antiwar left still bitter with Clinton over the war in Iraq.

Longtime Clinton family political adviser Harold Ickes said it would be a mistake to dismiss such challengers and the dangers they pose.

[What if] this were 2007 before Obama got into the race and youd said, Do you think Senator Obama is a threat to Hillary? Ickes asked rhetorically. The clear answer, he suggested, is that most would have dismissed Obama as little more than an annoyance.

But the biggest concern among many Clinton acolytes is someone who says she is not running Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), an economic populist who has come to personify a longing among liberal Democrats for someone further to Clintons left.

Warren especially interests and worries Bill Clinton, the unofficial top strategist for his wifes shadow campaign, according to two people who know the former president well. Bill Clinton admires Warrens stemwinder speaking style, and Hillary Clinton echoed parts of Warrens sticking-up-for-the-little guy economic message during midterm speeches this year.

During their one midterm appearance together, Clinton lavished praise on Warren and kept her own remarks brief. Elsewhere, she tried out appeals to working-class and underemployed voters that strategists expect to hear again if Clinton runs.

Many Clinton backers insist that some Democratic opposition is both inevitable and welcome, since it tends to toughen up the eventual winner for the head-to-head contest with a Republican in the general election. Looking at the lessons of Clintons bitter primary contest with Obama in 2008, Democrats also hope that Clinton will be polite, even deferential, to potential opponents such as Webb if she runs.

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