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Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton may announce her 2016 presidential bid early next year. Clinton said while in Mexico Friday that she has a unique vantage point on the presidency and will soon decide whether to launch a campaign, reports CNN.

"I am going to be making a decision ... probably after the first of the year about whether I'm going to run again or not," Clintonsaid in Mexico City, where she is attending an annual charity event hosted by billionaire Carlos Slim.Though she has yet to make an official announcement, Ready for Hillary, her Super PAC, is already laying the groundwork for her candidacy by sending surrogates to raise money in early voting states.

Clinton, the first lady from 1993 to 2001 and then a senator for New York, first ran for president in 2008. She won more votes, primaries and delegates than any other woman in American history, but narrowly lost the nomination to then-U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, who went on to win the national election.

ACNN surveyfrom July 18-20 showed Clinton with 67 percent support among Democrats. In a distant second was Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., at 10 percent, the only other potential candidate in the double digits. Vice President Joe Biden was at 8 percent, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo polled at 4 percent and Maryland Gov. Martin OMalley received 2 percent.

"As strong as she was in '06, the tea has brewed for eight more years and she is much stronger,Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, told International Business Times last month. "It's going to be awfully tough to beat her."

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Hillary Clinton 2016: Presidential Campaign Announcement Could Come Early Next Year

Washington Stop the servers! Hillary Clinton is going to announce whether she is going to run for president on Jan. 1, or shortly thereafter.

Or maybe later than shortly thereafter. This bears watching, as time will tell.

OK, were being a bit snarky there, but when it comes to the former Secretary of State and a possible try for the White House even a vague bit of new semi-specificity can make news. And the US political world is chattering today about the hint Hillary dropped in Mexico during an appearance at a charity event.

Asked several times if she planned to run, Clinton said, I am going to be making a decision around probably after the first of the year.

Immediately the mediasphere was full of posts with heads like Hillary says will announce around January 1. Which is a true statement, given her words.

But . . . is this new? Shes said in the past she wouldnt announce until next year. Now shes saying that she wont announce until at least the day after the next year begins. Or around after then, which could be November, depending on your definition of around.

We agree completely with political scientist Jonathan Bernstein, who thinks all this coyness on the part of candidates is a mask over their true attitudes.

Clinton is running for 2016 already, and has been since she quite the State Department, Bernstein writes today. Whats she really saying with todays announcement is that sometime next year she might surprise everyone and say shes dropping out of a pre-presidential contest shes already engaged in.

There are good legal and strategic reasons for this. Campaign-finance laws discourage an early start, for one. Coyness freezes intra-party competition, as possible rivals such as Maryland Gov. Martin OMalley cant poach donors or activists whose first choice is Clinton. It shortens the glad-handing campaign grind.

Nor is she the only one doing this. On the GOP side, everyone from Rand Paul to Rick Perry is popping up to New Hampshire just to pick up some maple syrup and maybe meet a few voters. As Bernstein says, what everybodys running for is to remain viable into 2016, when primary voting starts.

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Hillary Clinton says she'll decide on 2016 around January 1. Maybe.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

(CNN) -- Mitt Romney and Hillary Clinton have dueling opinion pieces about foreign policy in The Washington Post on Friday, but neither former presidential candidate appeared to take a stand on the current debate dominating the foreign policy arena: how to deal with ISIS.

Reviewing former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's book "World Order," Clinton writes that she and President Barack Obama share a similar world view as Kissinger, one that's rooted in "a belief in the indispensability of continued American leadership in service of a just and liberal order."

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Clinton, who's thinking about another run for president in 2016, argues that what makes the country a leader is not only its military strength but its "soft power" -- its values, relationships and diplomacy. She likes to call it "smart power."

While she doesn't mention the emerging crisis related to ISIS, she writes, "it's time for another of our great debates about what America means to the world and what the world means to America."

"We need to have an honest conversation together -- all of us -- about the costs and imperatives of global leadership, and what it really takes to keep our country safe and strong," the Democrat writes.

Romney, in his op-ed, argues that the dominating force that keeps the U.S. on top is its military strength and that one can't equate that with soft-power values. Widely seen as the GOP's party elder, Romney warns that decreasing military budgets can lead to disastrous outcomes.

"The most ludicrous excuse for shrinking our military derives from the president's thinking: 'Things are much less dangerous now than they were 20 years ago, 25 years ago or 30 years ago.' The 'safer world' trial balloon has been punctured by recent events in Ukraine, Afghanistan, Libya, Egypt, Gaza, Nigeria, Somalia, Syria and Iraq," the 2012 GOP nominee writes.

" 'Failures of imagination' led to tragedy 13 years ago; today, no imagination is required to picture what would descend on the United States if we let down our guard," he continues.

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