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*​**Correct The Record Sunday October 5, 2014 Roundup:*

*Headlines:*

*The Hill: “Webb won't criticize Clinton in interview”
<http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/219814-webb-wont-criticize-clinton-in-interview>*

“Former Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) refused to criticize former Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton, a potential rival for the White House, on Sunday,
instead focusing on his own concerns with the direction in which the U.S.
is headed.”

*The Hill: “Kerrey: Obama 'behind the ball' on ISIS”
<http://thehill.com/policy/defense/219799-kerrey-obama-dropped-the-ball-on-isis>*

“When asked about a favorite presidential candidate for 2016, Kerrey placed
his bet on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who he considers a
friend. ‘The odds of Hillary Clinton being the nominee of the Party are
almost 100% … I think people just trust that she can do the job.’”

*Slate: “Bill Clinton is Still the Most Influential Politician in the
Country”
<http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2014/10/05/bill_clinton_is_still_the_most_influential_politician_in_the_us.html?wpsrc=fol_tw>*

“Former president Bill Clinton’s seal of approval would make 38 percent of
people look more favorably on a candidate, versus 24 percent who would take
a less favorable view, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC
News/Annenberg poll.”

*Politico: “Can anyone fill the Competency Gap?”
<http://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/competency-gap-washington-dysfunction-congress-secret-service-ebola-111606.html>*

“In other words, ‘competence’ — the basic, unsexy quality that has fallen
flat in other elections — might become an actual selling point in 2016.”

*New York Daily News: “Gail Sheehy: Hillary's Hamlet moment”
<http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/gail-sheehy-hillary-hamlet-moment-article-1.1962563>*

[Subtitle:] “She has reservations about pursuing the presidency, including
some about Bill, but ultimately can’t resist the call of history.”

*Washington Post: “O’Malley has pair of appearances planned Monday in
Massachusetts and Rhode Island”
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/omalley-has-pair-of-appearances-planned-monday-in-massachusetts-and-rhode-island/2014/10/04/5463b8d2-4c21-11e4-b72e-d60a9229cc10_story.html>*

“Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) is headed to New England on Monday to
campaign for the Democratic gubernatorial tickets in Massachusetts and
Rhode Island, his political action committee announced Saturday.”

*Articles:*

*The Hill: “Webb won't criticize Clinton in interview”
<http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/219814-webb-wont-criticize-clinton-in-interview>*

By Cameron Joseph

October 5, 2014, 12:24 p.m. EDT

Former Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) refused to criticize former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton, a potential rival for the White House, on Sunday, instead
focusing on his own concerns with the direction in which the U.S. is headed.

"I don't think it's for me to talk about Hillary Clinton. I enjoyed working
with her when I was in the Senate. For me, I don't know what she's going to
do or if she runs what she would run on. I'm just very concerned about
these issues for the country," Webb said on "Meet the Press" Sunday morning.

"I'm very concerned about the issues of economic fairness and social
justice," he said when asked if he was to the left or to the right of
Clinton. "I believe in certain principles that I put out and whether they
are to the left or to the right, it doesn't matter to me."

Webb, a former Marine and former Republican with a populist streak, decided
to run for the Senate in 2006 over his opposition to the war in Iraq. He's
been critical of both parties' foreign policy, and continued his criticism
Sunday morning.

"We've not had a clear articulation of what American foreign policy is
basically since the end of the Cold War," he said. "In terms of a clear
doctrine we have been lacking that for a very long time."

The former senator has said he's considering a run for president. He
laughed when asked if he would announce by the end of the year, saying he's
"taking it one day at a time."

"What I'm trying to do is exactly the same thing that I did when I was
thinking about running for the Senate and that is to identify the issues
that America needs to focus on in order to regain the trust of the American
people," he said earlier in the interview.

*The Hill: “Kerrey: Obama 'behind the ball' on ISIS”
<http://thehill.com/policy/defense/219799-kerrey-obama-dropped-the-ball-on-isis>*

By Rachel Huggins

October 4, 2014, 10:01 p.m. EDT

Former Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.) criticized President Obama for
underestimating the impact of Islamic extremist groups, saying his decision
to remove U.S. troops from Iraq in 2011 "was a mistake."

"We underestimated the threat of a global jihad … ISIS is just a part of
it," Kerrey said during an interview on John Catsimatidis' radio show to
air Sunday on New York's 970 AM. "This is a global jihad that comes out of
the Muslim religion. Our intelligence underestimated the threat, and the
president did as well.”

The former presidential candidate noted Obama's recent military
involvement, but said he would have launched the campaign against the
Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) earlier so the U.S. wouldn't be
"behind the ball."

"It’s not just about ISIS," Kerrey reiterated. "This is a global jihad with
many locations ... Nigeria, Somalia and elsewhere where organizations have
sworn themselves to kill as many Muslims, Christians and Jews as they can
to establish their religious order.”

A former Navy SEAL officer, Kerrey suggested that the Secret Service's
recent security lapses around Obama could encourage global terrorism.

"Our president should never be in that kind of security risk," he said of
the incident last month where an armed man jumped the White House fence and
wasn't apprehended until he entered the mansion's unlocked front door.

The backlash culminated in former director Julia Pierson's resignation this
week.

Kerrey also weighed in on the upcoming midterm election, which is less than
a month away. He predicted that Republicans would add Senate control to
their House majority.

When asked about a favorite presidential candidate for 2016, Kerrey placed
his bet on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who he considers a
friend.

"The odds of Hillary Clinton being the nominee of the Party are almost 100%
… I think people just trust that she can do the job.”

*Slate: “Bill Clinton is Still the Most Influential Politician in the
Country”
<http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2014/10/05/bill_clinton_is_still_the_most_influential_politician_in_the_us.html?wpsrc=fol_tw>*

By Daniel Politi

October 5, 2014, 10:46 a.m. EDT

The impeached president who left the White House almost 14 years ago is
still the politician who is most able to sway voters with a simple
endorsement. Former president Bill Clinton’s seal of approval would make 38
percent of people look more favorably on a candidate, versus 24 percent who
would take a less favorable view, according to a new Wall Street
Journal/NBC News/Annenberg poll. Among Democrats, the positive number soars
to 70 percent. Hillary Clinton comes a close second with 65 percent,
followed by President Obama with 60 percent and Michelle Obama, whose
endorsement would be seen as helpful by 56 percent of voters.

Republicans, for their part, still see Mitt Romney as their best campaign
aide, with 59 percent saying that a seal of approval from the former
candidate would help a politician’s image. And while other prominent
Republican figures do not rank nearly as high in what is seen as evidence
of the split, the only politician who is able to get independent voters to
like a candidate is Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky. And Bill Clinton, of
course.

The latest poll comes on the heels of another survey last month that
revealed Bill Clinton is the only politician who enjoys a broad positive
rating, with 56 percent saying they have a good view of the former
president, versus 21 percent who have a negative impression. Hillary
Clinton also had a net positive rating but a much narrower one at 43
percent—41 percent. They were the only two politicians that had an overall
net positive rating, according to the Los Angeles Times.

*Politico: “Can anyone fill the Competency Gap?”
<http://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/competency-gap-washington-dysfunction-congress-secret-service-ebola-111606.html>*

By David Nather

October 5, 2014, 7:03 a.m. EDT

Americans are ready for things to stop breaking. And after the events of
last week, they may show a new interest in political candidates who can
promise one simple skill: competence.

The public was already worn down by Washington gridlock and a general sense
that the United States is in decline. Now, people are being rattled by
examples of incompetence in places they had been assured were rock-solid.
Of course, the Secret Service can protect the president, they thought —
until they learned about the guy who ran deep into the White House and the
guy with a gun who got into an elevator with President Barack Obama.

And of course our hospitals were ready in case Ebola ever came to the
United States, as our public health officials repeatedly told us — until a
hospital worker in Dallas didn’t manage to spread the word that a patient
had just come from Liberia.

It doesn’t all speak to the failures of government or elected leaders, but
it adds to the general sense of incompetence that has bombarded Americans
through the news stories of recent weeks. Sure, the Secret Service knows
how to protect the president — they just don’t always do it. And sure,
American hospitals know how to isolate and treat Ebola patients with
training and resources far better than West Africa — unless the hospital
workers just put notes in electronic medical records but don’t actually
talk to each other.

There’s even a continuing story line of dysfunction in the Ferguson,
Missouri, police department, where — after the community seemed to be
settling the tensions over the shooting of an unarmed African-American
teenager — the police force has gone back to taking provocative actions,
like wearing “I am Darren Wilson” bracelets in solidarity with the officer
who shot the teenager.

All of these events, layered on top of Americans’ general frustration with
Washington leaders and the political system, may present a new opening for
political leaders who can offer experience — and a sense that somebody
actually knows what they’re doing, according to political operatives and
analysts from both parties.

In other words, “competence” — the basic, unsexy quality that has fallen
flat in other elections — might become an actual selling point in 2016.

“It’s a pretty sure bet that 2016 will not be won with a message of hope
and change. More like: ‘I know where the trains are, and I will make them
run on time,’” said Mark McKinnon, a Republican strategist and former
adviser to President George W. Bush.

William Galston, a former domestic policy adviser to President Bill
Clinton, says the impact will extend to races all across the country, not
just the next White House race.

”I’ve long believed and argued that the events of recent years are setting
the stage for candidates at every level — including the presidential — who
can credibly make the case that ‘I can get it done,’” Galston said. “Vision
without managerial competence yields little except disappointment and
disillusion.”

It also means 2016 could become a referendum on Obama’s competence.
Democrats leave him out of the discussion, but Republican strategists are
quick to tie the general theme to him, without any prompting. Even though
some of the most recent incidents are clearly beyond his control —
presidents can’t personally oversee hospital workers in Dallas, for example
— he has plenty of stumbles that did happen on his watch, like the Veterans
Administration scandal and the sputtering launch of Obamacare last year.
And Republicans believe the public is worried enough about the government’s
general track record that they’ll be ready for a candidate who’s just a
good manager.

That atmosphere has already been building for months. In August, a Wall
Street Journal-NBC News poll found that 71 percent of Americans thought the
country was on the wrong track and that six out of 10 thought America was
in decline. They were pessimistic on the economic prospects for younger
generations, and seven out of 10 Americans blamed Washington leaders.

“The one constant is the sense that leaders in Washington aren’t on top of
things. What keeps happening on top of that are the external events that
raise the level of uncertainty,” like the Secret Service and Ebola
debacles, said Democratic pollster Fred Yang, who worked on the survey.

Yang compared the challenge of Washington’s political leaders to a waiter
at a restaurant who struggles as customers pile more and more plates on his
tray: “Can he get back to the kitchen without breaking them?”

So who stands to gain? Mostly governors, who can run for president on a
platform of executive experience and managerial competence — as long as
their records hold up to scrutiny. The new market for competence would be
less helpful to senators like Rand Paul, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, who,
despite their personal star qualities, wouldn’t be able to prove that they
had managed anything. It’s especially unhelpful to Cruz, whose main claim
to fame was last year’s government shutdown in a failed attempt to defund
Obamacare.

Republican operatives and fundraisers believe the new environment would
help former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and governors like Scott Walker of
Wisconsin, John Kasich of Ohio, or Mike Pence of Indiana if they get into
the race — and even Chris Christie of New Jersey or Rick Perry of Texas,
despite their recent troubles.

Democrats are less bullish on governors as presidential candidates, given
how completely Hillary Clinton still dominates that party’s potential White
House field. But they believe sitting governors like Jerry Brown of
California and Andrew Cuomo are having easy reelections because they have
already demonstrated competence, and they’re less impressed by Christie’s
presidential prospects, given the damage his reputation has suffered
because of the bridge scandal.

“As a general proposition, we live in an age of distrust … every day is
filled with stories raising questions of trust, of which competence is a
subset,” said Democratic strategist Chris Lehane. The result, he said, is
“a desire for candidates who are perceived as antidotes to address these
challenges.”

Governors aren’t necessarily the only beneficiaries. Some Republicans
believe Rob Portman of Ohio could have a more receptive audience if he gets
in as a long-shot White House candidate — because even though he’s a
senator now, he was also Bush’s budget director and has a reputation for
substance and competence.

Even Clinton could benefit from the new emphasis on competence. McKinnon
calls her “a perfect competency candidate,” noting that “even those who
might disagree with her politics would agree that she has years of
experience in and around the federal government and knows how things work.”
That’s not a universally shared view, though — other Republicans are sure
to go after her about the security weaknesses that preceded the Benghazi
attack.

The biggest partisan disagreement, naturally, is about what the public’s
desire for competence says about Obama.

For Republicans, the general atmosphere of incompetence can be traced to
the voters’ decision in 2008 to elect a senator who was a skilled and
charismatic speaker but had no real managerial experience. In 2016, they
believe, voters will react to that decision by turning in the other
direction.

“We might just be creating an atmosphere where voters will be seeking out
the un-Obama,” said Republican strategist Kevin Madden, a former spokesman
for Mitt Romney. “No more drama, no more grand, sweeping rhetoric and
speeches. Maybe voters will look for a political and personality course
correction by favoring a steady, competent, focused leadership style.”

Republican fundraiser Fred Malek said governors will make the strongest
candidates in 2016 because “what they can say is, ‘Don’t just trust what I
say. Look at what we’ve done. We’ve created jobs, we can do this, we can do
that. You don’t just have to rely on a good speech.’”

And McKinnon noted that “even voters who like and support President Obama
believe there has been a general lack of competence in this administration.
And every presidential election is more than anything a reaction to whoever
has held the office.”

White House officials declined to comment.

To be sure, Republicans won’t be able to pin every stumble on Obama. And
even the ones that happen get fixed. It will take a long time to get the
bumbling Secret Service back on track, but Obama took the first step
quickly by shoving Secret Service Director Julia Pierson out of her job.

In addition, Obama administration officials pride themselves on quietly
working to fix problems after the media spotlight has faded. With the
Veterans Administration scandal, for example, Obama quickly eased out VA
Secretary Eric Shinseki and replaced him after the true extent of the
agency’s efforts to conceal delays in medical care became clear.

And the Obamacare enrollment website, which made its disastrous debut a
year ago Wednesday, didn’t do any favors for the administration’s
reputation for competence. But the White House organized a “tech surge” to
get it patched up — and fired the original contractor — and the website
held up under the strain and under a large crush of last-minute signups in
the spring. The new Health and Human Services secretary, Sylvia Mathews
Burwell, has been making more management changes since then so the next
enrollment season goes more smoothly.

Democrats, meanwhile, argue that Republicans won’t be able to make the case
that they can restore government competence as long as tea party activists
continue to have such a strong influence — and as long as the party keeps
pushing budget cuts for important government functions, especially public
health. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which has been
taking the lead on preparations to treat Ebola patients and watch for sick
travelers, has already been hurt by budget cuts over the past few years.

“I don’t want to fear for my kids in a public health crisis,” said Jeff
Rotkoff, a Texas Democratic consultant.

Even Republican operatives aren’t all convinced that it will be easy for
GOP candidates — even governors — to run on governing competence. But
that’s mainly because they believe that after the past few years, voters
will be that much more skeptical about candidates who claim to be competent
managers — because they’ve been bombarded by too many stories of
incompetence, in government and seemingly everywhere else.

“I think they’ll look at those claims with a more jaundiced eye than they
did in 2008,” said Republican pollster Glen Bolger.

The bottom line for candidates in both parties, though, is that they’ll
have a tough sell given the overall atmosphere of incompetence and
dysfunction — with voters worried about their economic futures, and now the
new layers of uncertainty being added by the latest breakdowns.

“This is not about Obama or Republicans. It’s about leaders in Washington,”
said Yang. “Are they on top of this? Because all most people see is that
they just want to fight with each other.”

*New York Daily News: “Gail Sheehy: Hillary's Hamlet moment”
<http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/gail-sheehy-hillary-hamlet-moment-article-1.1962563>*

By Gail Sheehy

October 5, 2014, 5:00 a.m. EDT

[Subtitle:] She has reservations about pursuing the presidency, including
some about Bill, but ultimately can’t resist the call of history.

Hillary Clinton is the only political figure in America who doesn’t have to
run for President to assure her place in history as a world-changer. She’s
right up there alongside her avatar, Eleanor Roosevelt. And as she says in
interviews, she has a very nice life now — money, sleep, a portable bully
pulpit wherever she goes, and a long-awaited grandchild.

Friends counsel her not to run. Some tell me she is sorely conflicted, one
day waking up to think of another amazing thing she could accomplish as
President Clinton, the next morning waking up with a recoil: What were you
thinking? It takes guts to open herself, again, to the inevitable lying and
sliming that for a dozen years were a cottage industry of right-wingers,
even though some of them have since repented.

At the recent Clinton Global Initiative conference, Hillary hinted that she
felt guilty for leaving her young child when she worked long hours as the
breadwinner wife in Little Rock. She said she sees in her presence as a
grandmother the chance for a “do-over.” But if she ran for and was elected
President, she wouldn’t be around for her grandchild either.

Even so, Hillary has waited for more than 50 years to make her dream come
true. As a little girl, she spent hours dancing in the sun and, as she
wrote from Wellesley College to a former high school classmate, she
imagined the sunlight was intended for her — beamed down by God, “with
heavenly movie cameras watching my every move.”

Once she hitched her wagon to Bill Clinton’s star, the cameras that watched
Bill’s every move were hellish for her.

It took a Hillary to raise a President. It took a Hillary to save his
presidency from permanent infamy. It wasn’t until she was 53 that she
gained a sense of independence. While Bill Clinton was sweating out his
impeachment vote in the Senate, Hillary was in the West Wing planning her
own candidacy as a senator.

It sounded strange coming from a woman seen by the world as iron-willed,
but on Feb. 12, 1999, she told her chief political strategist, Harold
Ickes, “Now, for the first time, I am making my own decisions. It’s a great
relief.”

Her favorability ratings began to climb. She charmed the claws off her
Republican Senate colleagues, even hard cases like Sen. Orrin Hatch, who
had voted for her husband’s impeachment. As secretary of state her ratings
consistently soared above 60%. She was the most admired woman in the world.

But as soon as she made the passage from being America’s top diplomat to
flirting with a reentry to partisan politics, her approval ratings began to
slide — they’re now down in the mid-to-low 50s. As she saw last time, when
Barack Obama spoiled the party, early inevitability is fleeting.

So, will she or won’t she? Should she or shouldn’t she? How she answers
will be guided by three major factors.

Could she sell the country on buying another two-for-one deal attached to
unpredictable, ego-driven and, yes, potentially dangerous Bill Clinton?
Would her health hold up through a grueling campaign and beyond? And,
finally, does she have the proverbial fire in the belly.

Let’s start with Bill, who wants so desperately to be back in the White
House. “I’d be happy as a clam; I’d do whatever the President asks me to
do,” he told CNN.

Forty years ago, Hillary Rodham shocked her friends by deserting her
prestigious job in Washington D.C. and declaring, “I’m going to Arkansas to
marry Bill Clinton.”

His first campaign manager’s wife was put in charge of running Bill’s
girlfriend out the side door before Hillary entered the front. Finally,
Hillary had to ask her oldest brother to come to Fayetteville and run the
“college girl” out of town. The Starr Report revealed that Secret Service
agents had watched Monica Lewinsky come and go from the Oval Office without
a question.

It’s no wonder that, as I travel the country on a book tour, I hear
variations on the same apprehensive question: What if Bill is still
“misbehaving”?

Hillary would have to be beyond certain that the answer is no, and that she
would be her own person as President, while the First Husband would be as
obedient as the family dog. Whenever the West Wing door opened, he’d be
held on a choke leash.

Then again, what an ambassador he would make — probably the only man in the
world who could schmooze with Kim Jong Un. So suffice to say, Bill cuts
both ways.

More pressing — and an issue over which Hillary would have no control — is
one that many prospective candidates must confront as they wrestle with the
reality of carrying the weight of the world’s most demanding job: age.

A State Department diplomat who worked with Hillary in the Clinton White
House and at State, and is close to her in age, questions whether or not
Hillary’s health and energy level could hold up under the merciless travel
and sleep deprivation that ages every President at double time:

“She needs to retreat to replenish her energy, the opposite of Bill, who
has to be outgoing 24-7,” I was told. After six years of wrestling with a
world in chaos, Obama looks like a zombie.

President Reagan could fake nonchalance because he was an actor. But
apparent symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease surfaced well before the end of
his second term.

Hillary has always needed eight hours of sleep. Fortunately, she is able to
cat nap almost anywhere. There is the lingering concern that she wore
herself out toward the end of her grueling four-year, globe-circling job as
Secretary Clinton.

On the downside, she is prone to blood clotting as a result of repetitive
lengthy air travel. In her memoir, “Living History,” she attributed the
clot that developed in her left leg, in 1998, to “my nonstop flying around
the country” as First Lady.

On the upside, Clinton has a far better life expectancy than Reagan did
when he entered the Oval Office at the same age as Hillary would be — at
69. When her longer-lived gender and generation are factored in, a
combination of federal data calculate her likely life expectancy as 86.

Finally, there is the passion factor, which is likely to be decisive.

Hillary Rodham Clinton has a lifelong passion for improving the lives of
women and girls. As a condition for accepting the role of Secretary of
State, she told president-elect Obama “I have my own agenda.” She demanded
that he allow her to work for gender equality and make it a part of
official foreign policy. She pursued that agenda in every country she
visited.

Yes, Hillary may be a natural warrior woman. But the other strong core of
her character is the nurturer-rescuer. Fighting for gender equality and
empowerment of women, she says “is one of the great causes of my life.”

If she runs in 2016, there are strong hints that she will mount an
aggressive campaign for extended maternity leave and quality, affordable
childcare for working mothers.

“The absence of paid leave is a strong signal to women, and particularly
mothers, that society and our economy don’t value being a mother,” she has
said recently. Women shouldn’t have to choose between motherhood and
advancing their careers.

As secretary of state, Clinton imagined a world that ensures that girls and
women are as educated and healthy as men and free from violence,
trafficking and abuse. The Clinton Global Initiative projects a much
bleaker reality: by current standards, women will not comprise half of the
world’s elected representatives until 2065 and won’t be half the world’s
leaders until more than 100 years from now.

Hillary knows well the biggest mistake she made in her failed 2008 campaign
for President. She listened to Bill Clinton and her chief strategist, Mark
Penn. Both men insisted, more or less, that she not run as a woman.

They presented her to the voters as tougher than any man. Hillary loyalists
repeatedly challenged Obama’s manhood, openly proclaiming to reporters that
she was the only candidate with the “testicular fortitude” to be President.

When she finally conceded the 2008 primary election to a man, women of her
age wept bitterly. She lifted them up with inspired words: Do not dwell on
the what ifs, she said. “Life is too short. Time is too precious. We have
to work together for what still can be.”

Millions of women around the world took those words to heart and found in
them salve for their own crushing disappointments in life. Could Hillary
betray the hopes of women the world over and dash the dreams of their
daughters?

I hear women everywhere saying, “If she doesn’t run, I’d never forgive her.”

And Hillary, it seems almost certain, would never forgive herself.

*Washington Post: “O’Malley has pair of appearances planned Monday in
Massachusetts and Rhode Island”
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/omalley-has-pair-of-appearances-planned-monday-in-massachusetts-and-rhode-island/2014/10/04/5463b8d2-4c21-11e4-b72e-d60a9229cc10_story.html>*

By John Wagner

October 4, 2014, 8:06 p.m. EDT

Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) is headed to New England on Monday to
campaign for the Democratic gubernatorial tickets in Massachusetts and
Rhode Island, his political action committee announced Saturday.

O’Malley, who is weighing a 2016 White House bid, is booked to appear in
Boston at an event with Steve Kerrigan, the Democratic candidate for
lieutenant governor in Massachusetts, according to a Facebook posting. The
event, scheduled to take place at Northeastern University, is sponsored by
the College Democrats of Massachusetts.

Details for the Rhode Island event were not immediately available.

The stops are part of a busy travel schedule for O’Malley as he campaigns
for Democrats on the ballot in November and contemplates a 2016
presidential primary bid that would likely pit him against Hillary Rodham
Clinton.

O’Malley appeared last weekend at events in the early presidential
nominating states of New Hampshire and Nevada.

*Calendar:*

*Sec. Clinton's upcoming appearances as reported online. Not an official
schedule.*

·  October 6 – Ottawa, Canada: Sec. Clinton speaks at Canada 2020 event (Ottawa
Citizen
<http://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/hillary-clinton-speaking-in-ottawa-oct-6>
)

·  October 8 – Chicago, IL: Sec. Clinton stumps for Illinois Gov.
Quinn (Chicago
Sun-Times
<http://politics.suntimes.com/article/washington/hillary-clinton-hitting-illinois-stump-gov-quinn/mon-09292014-1000am>
)

·  October 8 – Chicago, IL: Sec. Clinton keynotes AdvaMed 2014 conference (
AdvaMed
<http://advamed2014.com/download/files/AVM14%20Wednesday%20Plenary%20Media%20Alert%20FINAL%209_30_14(1).pdf>
)

·  October 9 – New York, NY: Sec. Clinton fundraises for Arkansas Sen.
Pryor (AP
<http://bigstory.ap.org/article/03fe478acd0344bab983323d3fb353e2/clinton-planning-lengthy-campaign-push-month>
)

·  October 9 – Philadelphia, PA: Sec. Clinton fundraises for gubernatorial
candidate Tom Wolf (AP
<http://bigstory.ap.org/article/03fe478acd0344bab983323d3fb353e2/clinton-planning-lengthy-campaign-push-month>
)

·  October 13 – Las Vegas, NV: Sec. Clinton and Sen. Reid fundraise for the
Reid Nevada Fund (Ralston Reports
<http://www.ralstonreports.com/blog/hillary-raise-money-state-democrats-reid-next-month>
)

·  October 13 – Las Vegas, NV: Sec. Clinton keynotes the UNLV Foundation
Annual Dinner (UNLV
<http://www.unlv.edu/event/unlv-foundation-annual-dinner?delta=0>)

·  October 14 – San Francisco, CA: Sec. Clinton keynotes
salesforce.com Dreamforce
conference (salesforce.com
<http://www.salesforce.com/dreamforce/DF14/highlights.jsp#tuesday>)

·  October 20 – San Francisco, CA: Sec. Clinton fundraises for House
Democratic women candidates with Nancy Pelosi (Politico
<http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/hillary-clinton-nancy-pelosi-110387.html?hp=r7>
)

·  October 20 – San Francisco, CA: Sec. Clinton fundraises for Senate
Democrats (AP
<http://bigstory.ap.org/article/03fe478acd0344bab983323d3fb353e2/clinton-planning-lengthy-campaign-push-month>
)

·  November 2  – NH: Sec. Clinton appears at a GOTV rally for Gov. Hassan
and Sen. Shaheen (AP
<http://bigstory.ap.org/article/03fe478acd0344bab983323d3fb353e2/clinton-planning-lengthy-campaign-push-month>
)

·  December 1 – New York, NY: Sec. Clinton keynotes a League of
Conservation Voters dinner (Politico
<http://www.politico.com/story/2014/09/hillary-clinton-green-groups-las-vegas-111430.html?hp=l11>
)

·  December 4 – Boston, MA: Sec. Clinton speaks at the Massachusetts
Conference for Women (MCFW <http://www.maconferenceforwomen.org/speakers/>)