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President Obama and Hillary Clinton sit down in first joint interview.
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Washington (CNN) -- New Hampshire remains Clinton country.
Sixty-two percent of Democratic primary voters in New Hampshire say that if the primary were held today, Hillary Clinton, the prohibitive favorite for the Democrats' 2016 presidential nomination, would be their top choice, according to a Bloomberg Politics/Saint Anselm College poll released Monday.
The number is a whopping 49 percentage points higher than second-place finisher Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont finishes in third with 6% and Vice President Joe Biden finishes in fourth with 5%.
Although Clinton has not declared her second run at the presidency, the former secretary of state has admitted she is considering a run and many close aides see a campaign as all-but-certain at this point.
New Hampshire has always been welcome ground for the Clinton family. Bill Clinton's surprising second place finish in the 1992 primary provided his campaign with a symbolic victory and re-energized the Arkansas governor as "The Comeback Kid." Likewise, in 2008, after finishing a disappointing third in the Iowa caucuses, Hillary Clinton used her New Hampshire primary win to right her campaign.
Despite her huge lead, even Clinton's most ardent New Hampshire supporters have cautioned her to not take the Granite State as already in the bag.
"Inevitability is not a message, it is not something you can run on. And in New Hampshire, we have a long history of (frontrunner) train wrecks," Terry Shumaker, a longtime Clinton aide in New Hampshire, said last week during a meeting of pro-Clinton Democrats.
Shumaker, who was with Bill Clinton when he filed his presidential bid papers in 1991, added: "As I caution all presidential candidates in New Hampshire, taking New Hampshire for granted is very dangerous. Last time I believe Hillary Clinton had an almost 30-point lead in the polls in our state in the summer and that lead melted like an ice sculpture on the mall in Washington in July."
Monday's poll, however, is not all good news for Clinton.
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WASHINGTON Does Jim Webb have what it takes to give Hillary Clinton a run for her money?
Webb thinks he does, and he fired his first salvo against her last week, announcing in a video on new campaign website that he had formed an exploratory committee as the first step in a possible 2016 run for the White House.
Without mentioning Clinton by name, the former Democratic senator from Virginia stated bluntly that government is paralyzed and that he wants to help not as a career politician, but as a public servant to re-establish a transparent, functioning governmental system in our country.
In my view the solutions are not simply political, but those of leadership, Webb said. I learned long ago on the battlefields of Vietnam that in a crisis, there is no substitute for clear-eyed leadership.
Obviously he is an incredible long shot, said Terry Madonna, who directs the Franklin and Marshall College Poll in Pennsylvania. But as sort of a moderate, more so a centrist, he will obviously have an appeal within the Democratic Party.
Plus, Madonna said, There are apparently some Democrats who are not willing to cede the nomination to [Clinton]. Conceivably she could have a real battle on her hands for the nomination by people who are saying, no, you are not just rolling away the nomination, its not necessarily yours.
A Marine Corps veteran, Webb, 68, earned two Purple Hearts, the Navy Cross, a Silver Star and two Bronze Stars in Vietnam. He is considered a blunt, independent-minded Democrat who is conservative on issues like gun rights, immigration and the military. But he is cautious on the use of military force overseas and he wields more of a progressive if not populist message on prison reform, income equality and reducing poverty.
He received a law degree at Georgetown University after Vietnam and authored several critically acclaimed war novels before serving as secretary of the Navy under President Ronald Reagan in 1987-88, a position he resigned from in protest of budget cuts. He was elected to the U.S. Senate as a Democrat in 2006, unseating Republican George Allen by less than 1 percent of the vote.
As a veteran and now somewhat of a blue dog Democrat, he has the street cred and experience to bring swing voters to the table, especially in the conservative South, said Donna Lorraine Barlett, a retired Army judge advocate general who lives in Georgia.
Webb was at the forefront in passing the sweeping reform of the GI Bill in 2008, and veterans consider him a champion of their issues. Coming from a family of citizen soldiers, he spoke strongly against the Iraq War before it was fashionable to do so and while his own son was fighting with the Marines in Ramadi.
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By Dan Balz Chief correspondent November 22
NEW YORK It was all Hillary Clinton, all day, Friday in New York, a day that helped crystallize how much already has been done for the prospective presidential candidate by others and, more importantly, what she has yet to do for herself.
The events included a day-long session for the donors to Ready for Hillary, the political action committee founded in early 2013 to help encourage Clinton to run for president. She did not appear at the event, but many of the Clinton clique were there.
In the evening, it was the former secretary of state herself in the limelight at a black-tie gala hosted by the New-York Historical Society Museum & Library, where she was given the History Makers award.
Ready for Hillary started on a shoestring, dismissed by some in Clinton world as a quixotic enterprise. It has grown into something far more important and valuable to a potential candidate whose top-down campaign in 2008 was one (but not the only) factor that led to her defeat to Barack Obama in the contest for the Democratic nomination.
Because of the work of Ready for Hillary, if Clinton decides to run for president, she will instantly have access to what the groups leaders say is a list of roughly 3 million people who have signed up as supporters, volunteers, donors or all of the above. Ready for Hillary will shut down if and when Clinton announces her candidacy. The list cant simply be handed over to her, but she will easily be able to convert fruits of the organizations efforts into a Hillary for President ground army.
Many people deserve credit for this. One is Adam Parkhomenko, the young and tireless co-founder of the group, who has been looking to help make Clinton president of the United States since he was in high school and who overcame the doubters with his energy and a strategic grasp of the techniques and imperatives of the most modern of campaigns.
Another who gets credit is Craig Smith, who has been part of the Clintons world for more than two decades and whose arrival at Ready for Hillary signaled to many longtime Clinton loyalists and donors that the organization deserved their backing, financial and otherwise. About $10 million has been raised since the founding.
Fridays gathering in New York seemed very much like both a Clinton political family reunion and the gathering-before-the-storm. In attendance were scores of people from across the country, many of them instrumental in helping Bill Clinton become president, some who served him as president, and all of them now are just as determined to see Hillary Clinton get to the White House in her own right.
The speakers constituted a whos who of Clinton loyalists, from strategists James Carville and Paul Begala to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to former White House deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes. Equally notable were those from Obamas political orbit and others who are now part of the Ready for Hillary operation or any of the other pro-Clinton political committees and organizations that have been founded in the past two years.
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