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Vice President Joseph R. Biden, check. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, check. But noticeably absent from the guest list of the annual meeting of the Democracy Alliance, a progressive-minded group that funds similarly liberal causes, was former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

The meeting isnt explicitly designed to drum up support for the next presidential contender for the Democratic Party but past gatherings have indeed included debates and discussions about the emerging field of presidential hopefuls, Politico reported.

The fact that Mrs. Clinton wasnt invited to the gathering is raising eyebrows among some of her supporters who also recall the Democracy Alliances perceived jump to then-candidate Barack Obamas bandwagon in 2008, and abandonment of the former first lady, with a similarly sour taste, Politico reported.

On top of that, the Democracy Alliances former executive director, Kelly Craighead a loyalist of the Clinton family is no longer with the group. She was replaced by Gara LaMarche, whos not as cozy with the Clintons, after group members raised concerns that the Democracy Alliance was trending too Democratic and not enough progressive, Politico reported.

Mr. LaMarche, however, said his group wasnt playing favorites and that reading too much into Mrs. Clintons absence would be folly and little more than drummed-up media speculations. Politico said.

None of this has to do with presidential politics, and none of the people you asked about [Warren, Biden] are declared presidential candidates, he told a Politico reporter. Once we have an actual contest, if we do have one, the DA will have to thread carefully through it, since we are scrupulously neutral, and people like you are always looking for signs.

He also said we invited Sen. Warren because, as Secretary Clinton herself has said, she is a leading progressive voice on the economy and she is kicking off an economics discussion, Politico reported.

At the same time, some in attendance called it very surprising that Mrs. Clinton wasnt invited.

Ms. Warren a rock star among progressives, who see her as the solution to Mrs. Clintons perceived too-conservative approach to Wall Street and on U.S. military missions was due to speak on Thursday on An Economy That Works For All A Progressive Plan and the Path to Making It Happen.

Neither Mrs. Clinton nor Ms. Warren have announced candidacies for the White House in 2016. But a super PAC called Ready for Warren has been formed to convince her to run.

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David Axelrod has lots of thoughts about the probable Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential candidacy most of which come with some criticism of the woman he helped to defeat in the Democratic primary six years ago.

Speaking Thursday at The Wall Street Journals Capital Journal breakfast, the architect of President Barack Obamas winning presidential campaign messages said Mrs. Clinton could serve as a contrast to the Obama presidency.

Even when a president is popular, people tend to seek the remedy and not the replica. They want someone who has the qualities that they miss in the president, Mr. Axelrod said. This tends to be a pendular thing. I think in 2016 people are going to want someone who is a little less nuanced and a little less attuned to the complexity, someone who projects more of a sense of black and white certainty.

That environment favors Hillary Clinton more than the 2008 environment because she tends to be someone who speaks in simple, declarative sentences with great certainty, he said.

Not exactly a ringing endorsement.

Mr. Obamas 2008 campaign was hardly subtle. His campaign plastered CHANGE placards and banners at every event a direct implication that electing Mrs. Clinton would be more of the same. Sure, Mr. Obama often speaks in digressions something that hasnt always been helpful to his presidency.

Throughout the event, Mr. Axelrod attributed the Democrats midterm losses to a failure to articulate a coherent economic message. He included Mrs. Clinton among the offenders, saying that she must get out of the cocoon of inevitability and suggested she is already out in front of the rationale for her candidacy.

Afterward, Mr. Axelrod, who is now based in Chicago, said Mrs. Clinton is perfectly capable of delivering a strong economic pitch to the sort of middle-class voters who will decide the next presidential election. She did so, he said, while campaigning for Pennsylvania Gov.-elect Tom Wolf, but didnt always do so while stumping for other 2014 candidates.

I saw her deliver this message very effectively in 2008, he said. She just got to it way too late.

As far as his own political client, Mr. Axelrod attributed the presidents own communication failures to his inability to hew to an economic message of his own.

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Rudy Giuliani, the tough-talking former New York City mayor, has some advice for Republicans who want to beat Hillary Clinton in 2016: Dont be mean.

The wrong way is to be too aggressive, and be too mean, and to ever get personal, he said Wednesday in an interview with POLITICO. The right way to do it is on policy and on true contribution.

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In a wide-ranging, blunt and occasionally expletive-laden interview, Giuliani whose own 2008 bid for the White House fizzled quickly said Clintons central vulnerability will be what her allies have long argued is a strength: her policy rsum. He compared President Barack Obamas political charisma to Ronald Reagans and had a few choice words for former ally Charlie Crist.

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But he reserved his sharpest comments for Clinton, who represented New York in the Senate toward the end of Giulianis second term at City Hall and who has yet to announce whether shell make a second run for the White House.

Shes a candidate who, with her baggage, can be beaten by the right candidate who handles it the right way and by the right campaign who handles it the right way, he said.

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