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SAN JOSE -- At a restaurant just off the San Jose State University campus Thursday evening, a young waitress, exasperated by the sudden crush of customers ordering salads and a white wine, paused from her exertions to explain why she was so slammed.

"They're all going to see Hillary Clinton," she said, sizing up the room.. "Everywhere you look, it's the same demographic."

A mostly middle-aged, conspicuously Caucasian crowd of women filled the university's Event Center for Clinton's appearance as part of Unique Lives & Experiences.

That was the demographic that was clearly top of mind for the former first lady, senator and secretary of state.

Looking by turns confident in her message and comfortable in her own skin, Clinton sounded like someone ready for her next campaign.

She could have been referring to her own presidential ambitions in 2016 when she declared early on, "All that most women need is a fighting chance to prove themselves."

Compared to the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries crowd she had squared off with earlier that day in Las Vegas, where a woman threw a shoe at her head (it missed), this felt like a Lilith Fair love fest with shoulder pads and sensible shoes.

In the carnivallike walk-up outside the arena, protesters held aloft signs that said "Clinton: Benghazi blood on her hands." A man taunted people streaming into the building, saying, "Go on, drink the Kool-Aid. Slurp it down."

Clinton confined most of her remarks to women's struggles, a word she invoked half a dozen times.

She also talked about her mother's plight as an abandoned child and several times quoted Eleanor Roosevelt, one of the great avatars of the women's movement.

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Hillary Clinton dazzles crowd at San Jose State