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*​**Correct The Record Monday November 3, 2014 Morning Roundup:*

*Headlines:*

*Politico: “Hillary Clinton ends campaign sprint, for now”
<http://www.politico.com/story/2014/11/hillary-clinton-2014-elections-112441_Page2.html>*

“Hillary Clinton’s Sunday in New Hampshire marked the end of her intense
campaign schedule for 2014, as she headlined a rally for Gov. Maggie Hassan
and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen.”

*Associated Press: “Clinton says New Hampshire taught her about 'grit'”
<http://bigstory.ap.org/article/097b622d2ef94d27b42d9093bce3a0cc/clinton-says-new-hampshire-taught-her-about-grit>*

“The former secretary of state campaigned in New Hampshire for the first
time since October 2008, joining with Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and Gov. Maggie
Hassan, who both face competitive re-election campaigns, in an all-female
pitch to voters in the midterm election's final weekend.”

*Associated Press via Yahoo: “In New Hampshire, Clinton shows family ties”
<http://news.yahoo.com/hampshire-clinton-shows-family-ties-073855072--election.html>*

“At a Nashua rally, the mere mention of Clinton by Shaheen or Hassan
prompted booming chants of "Hillary!" from about 700 activists in a
community college gymnasium.”

*Boston Globe: “Hillary Clinton returns to N.H., hints at 2016 issues”
<http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/11/02/hillary-clinton-campaign-with-jeanne-shaheen-maggie-hassan-new-hampshire/rNXPdVMI3umCS97hOY5ytK/story.html>*

“Hillary Rodham Clinton, in her first political appearance in this
first-in-the-nation presidential primary state since 2008, spoke to a crowd
of hundreds here Sunday, strongly supporting the reelection bids of US
Senator Jeanne Shaheen and Governor Maggie Hassan and offering a hint of
themes that might animate a potential second White House run.”

*Boston Herald: “Hillary Clinton fails to draw at Jeanne Shaheen event”
<http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/us_politics/2014/11/hillary_clinton_fails_to_draw_at_jeanne_shaheen_event>*

“New Hampshire Republican State Committee Chairwoman Jennifer Horn told the
Herald that reports Clinton’s speech campus drew 700 ‘must have been
disappointing’ because state Democrats ‘booked a space that could hold at
least twice as many.’”

*Tweet from BuzzFeed’s Ruby Cramer
<https://twitter.com/rubycramer/status/528956833739067392>*

*BuzzFeed’s Ruby Cramer* @rubycramer: Staff at Shaheen/Hassan rally with
@HillaryClinton says crowd on the floor will be capped at 675 + overflow on
upper level. [11/2/14, 12:08 p.m.
<https://twitter.com/rubycramer/status/528956833739067392> EST
<https://twitter.com/rubycramer/status/528956833739067392>]

*Real Clear Politics: “How the Midterms Will Set the Table for 2016”
<http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/11/03/how_the_midterms_will_set_the_table_for_2016__124526.html>*

“In becoming an active surrogate during the midterm campaign’s final weeks,
Clinton has had opportunity to test-drive a few potential messages that
could become central to her widely anticipated 2016 run.”

*CNN: “How presidential contenders are spending Election Night”
<http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/03/politics/2016ers-on-election-night/index.html>*

“For their part, representatives for Democratic presidential hopefuls
Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden wouldn't detail their Election Night plans,
although both have invested time on the trail campaigning for their party
candidates.”

*Real Clear Politics: “Megyn Kelly: Hillary Gave Women Permission To Reject
Her When She Said Being A Woman Is Not Enough”
<http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/11/02/megyn_kelly_hillary_gave_women_permission_to_reject_her_when_she_said_being_a_women_is_not_enough.html>*

MEGYN KELLY, KELLY FILE, “One thing she said this week that jumped out at
me when she was stumping in Iowa, she said it's not enough to be a woman,
you also have to forcefully advocate for policies that help women.”

*Boston Herald: “Pols join throngs for public Tom Menino tribute”
<http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2014/11/pols_join_throngs_for_public_tom_menino_tribute>*

“Hillary Clinton, who had been expected to attend, was stumping in New
Hampshire for U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, but cited a mechanical issue with
her plane and called Angela Menino to offer her condolences instead, former
Menino spokeswoman Dot Joyce said.”

*The Daily Beast: “Bernie Sanders Is Showing Us the Socialist Way to Run
for President”
<http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/03/bernie-sanders-is-showing-us-the-socialist-way-to-run-for-president.html>*

[Subtitle:] “Let Hillary and Elizabeth stump for the big-ticket
candidates—the Vermont senator is jumping into a tiny California town’s
fight against Chevron and keynoting the ‘Fighting Bobfest.’”

*Articles:*

*Politico: “Hillary Clinton ends campaign sprint, for now”
<http://www.politico.com/story/2014/11/hillary-clinton-2014-elections-112441_Page2.html>*

By Maggie Haberman

November 2, 2014, 11:07 p.m. EST

NASHUA, N.H. – Hillary Clinton’s Sunday in New Hampshire marked the end of
her intense campaign schedule for 2014, as she headlined a rally for Gov.
Maggie Hassan and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen.

But for the likely 2016 Democratic presidential hopeful, it was the end of
the beginning – a transition from the two-year window in which she was able
to be half-in and half-out of public life, giving paid speeches and
selected interviews for a book tour without formally being in the political
realm — to an all-but-certain presidential campaign.

Clinton gave a warm greeting to the roughly 675 people on hand at the
close-out rally with Shaheen, who is in a close race with Republican Scott
Brown, and Hassan, who is comfortably leading in hers. It was the first
time back in the state since her joint event with Barack Obama in Unity,
New Hampshire, in June 2008.

And it was the final event in a string of 45 appearances Clinton made on
behalf of Democrats in the past two months, a figure that surpassed
expectations during a tough election season for her party.

Shaheen made one of the few references to Clinton and a potential campaign,
asking the crowd, “Are you Ready for Hillary?” It was a reference to the
ubiquitous shadow effort that launched in early 2013 and has helped freeze
the Democratic 2016 field. The “Ready for Hillary” bus, which followed her
everywhere during her summer book tour but which has been on hand for few
of the campaign events Clinton’s done for other candidates, was parked
prominently in the parking lot at the Nashua Community College gym.

“Hi-llary! Hi-llary!” the crowd chanted. Clinton smiled, nodding repeatedly
with her hands folded in front of her.

But that was one of the few references to presidential politics from any of
the speakers.

Clinton thanked Granite State Democrats, who kept her campaign alive in
January 2008 with a win over Iowa caucuses winner Barack Obama, for
bolstering her during that time.

“During the darkest days of my campaign, you lifted me up, you gave me my
voice back, you taught me so much about grit and determination, and I will
never forget that,” Clinton said, looking out at the crowd.

But Clinton, who has been forceful and energetic in most of her stump
appearances, was a notch more subdued in the state that marked the
beginning of the second phase of 2008’s brutal primary. She was widely seen
as a much better candidate after New Hampshire, where she wept a few days
before the vote in response to a question from a voter, than she was before
it. But the state is not without complicated memories.

Clinton mocked Brown for appearing to flub a geography question in the
final debate with Shaheen – a move intended to underscore the Republican’s
carpetbagger status. That same charge was made against Clinton repeatedly
when she moved to New York to run for an open Senate seat in 1999.

Clinton, in the final days of the 2014 midterms, has hit other candidates’
opponents with charges that have been used against her – she blasted Iowa
Republican Joni Ernst for not answering questions from a newspaper, and
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) as “a Washington fixture.”

But Clinton is not yet a candidate – and her allies insist she is not 100
percent decided – and so most of these moments have evaporated.

“Every election is about the future,” Clinton said at the event, saying
that there has been an imbalance among some officials who want to give “the
big bulk of the [economic] pie to people who’ve done very well indeed.” She
read from notes on the podium.

She blasted Brown, without naming him, for “dismissing” the issue of equal
pay.

“The wage gap in New Hampshire costs women here thousands of dollars,” she
said, adding that some people walk around saying, “Why do these Democrats
go around talking about women? Well, we are half the population. But it’s
bigger than that.”

“Women’s rights are..the frontier of freedom everywhere in the world,” she
added to loud applause.

Later Clinton made two “on-the-run” stops in a state that demands repeated
and involved retail politicking from presidential candidates. She also
appeared at a small fundraiser in Portsmouth at a private residence, for
Hassan’s campaign.

Clinton toured the Purity Backroom in Manchester, a diner known for chicken
wings and thick-cut fries, with Shaheen and Hassan trailing behind her.

“It’s a place where I really, really enjoy being,” Clinton told reporters,
roughly seven of whom followed her through the eatery as she stopped at
tables and took selfies with patrons.

There were knowing references from some patrons who told her they wanted to
support her again. She laughed and kept going, or asked people to keep
their focus on Tuesday’s vote. Others were people she’d worked with in the
past, like union leaders, who she greeted warmly.

There was also the occasional off-message moment, the type that Clinton has
had to experience little of over the last two years.

“I’ve got a life-sized picture of you” at home, one older gentleman told
her.

“Well, say hello to me!” she replied.

“You scare me sometimes,” the man told her. She laughed and moved on.

At the second stop, in Dover, at Farm Bar & Grille, Clinton climbed a
creaky wooden staircase to a small upstairs room with about 20 people who
had just come from get-out-the-vote exercises for Shaheen.

“I thought maybe we could do a group picture of several group pictures –
how does that sound?” she said to the group. “Does that sound good? Maybe
we could sorta organize…”

One of the people on hand called out, “Organize!”

Clinton nodded. “That’s right. And mobilize. And then Jeanne and I can go
around and I can say thank you for everything you’re doing for her. Okay
so, whatever groups you want to put yourself in.”

They took pictures over and over.

One woman told her she first met Clinton in New Orleans in 1992, saying, “I
feel like I’ve come full circle.”

“Thank you for working so hard for Jeanne,” Clinton said.

George Fleming, a veteran from Barrington who was on Clinton’s veterans’
committee in 2008, chatted with her quietly – bringing the conversation to
a close when he mentioned Jeb Bush, who is considering running for
president.

“We can’t have another one,” he said. “I mean, Jeb?”

Clinton laughed but didn’t respond. A nearby aide called out, “How about
another picture?”

*Associated Press: “Clinton says New Hampshire taught her about 'grit'”
<http://bigstory.ap.org/article/097b622d2ef94d27b42d9093bce3a0cc/clinton-says-new-hampshire-taught-her-about-grit>*

By Ken Thomas

November 2, 2014, 6:54 p.m. EST

NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — Returning to New Hampshire, Hillary Rodham Clinton
thanked voters Sunday for teaching her about "grit and determination"
during her 2008 presidential campaign, reaching for her family's old
political magic to help fellow Democrats.

The former secretary of state campaigned in New Hampshire for the first
time since October 2008, joining with Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and Gov. Maggie
Hassan, who both face competitive re-election campaigns, in an all-female
pitch to voters in the midterm election's final weekend.

Clinton's visit stoked speculation about another presidential run, capping
a two-month string of campaign appearances in the nation's top Senate and
gubernatorial battlegrounds.

"Starting way back in 1991 you opened your homes and your hearts to us,"
Clinton said, recalling the first presidential bid of her husband, former
President Bill Clinton. "And in 2008, during the darkest days of my
campaign, you lifted me up, you gave me my voice back, you taught me so
much about grit and determination."

The rally at a community college in the home of the nation's first
presidential primary was eagerly anticipated by Democrats, many of whom
still remember Bill Clinton's resiliency in 1992, a second-place finish for
which he famously nicknamed himself the "Comeback Kid."

Following a loss to Barack Obama in the 2008 Iowa caucuses, Hillary Clinton
staged her own rebound here in the state's presidential primary and later
joined with the future president in New Hampshire after ending her White
House bid — in a town appropriately named Unity.

Six years later, Clinton remains the dominant figure in a potential
Democratic presidential primary to succeed Obama, and the rally served
notice of her popularity here. The mere mention of her name by Shaheen and
Hassan brought loud chants of "Hillary," bringing a smile to Clinton's face.

"She is here to help keep us going so we can keep our state moving in the
right direction," Hassan said.

In her remarks, Clinton honed in on a number of local issues, noting
Shaheen's support for jobs at the Portsmouth Naval Yard and legislation to
help small businesses gain access to credit.

Clinton pounced on Republican Scott Brown's answer in a recent Senate
candidate debate that had Democrats claiming he was unfamiliar with New
Hampshire's geography, namely Sullivan County. Brown, who is competing in a
tough contest with Shaheen, moved to New Hampshire from Massachusetts last
year after losing a re-election bid for the Senate seat he won in a 2010 to
fill the remaining two years of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy's term.

Shaheen, Clinton said, didn't just know where certain communities were
located but understood their issues. The upcoming election, Clinton said,
offered a choice "between two very different visions."

"Either we're all in this together or we're all in this on our own,"
Clinton said. After the rally, she made off-schedule stops at restaurants
in Manchester and Dover and was raising money for Hassan in Portsmouth.

Republicans aimed to use Clinton's visit to tie Shaheen to Obama, who
remains unpopular. State GOP chair Jennifer Horn said Clinton and Shaheen
"share one thing in common — they have both supported Obama's failed
leadership, which has left America weaker at home and around the world."

*Associated Press via Yahoo: “In New Hampshire, Clinton shows family ties”
<http://news.yahoo.com/hampshire-clinton-shows-family-ties-073855072--election.html>*

By Ken Thomas

November 3, 2014

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton was born in Illinois,
learned the nitty-gritty of politics in Arkansas and represented New York
in the U.S. Senate. But her daylong visit here served notice that, should
she run for president, she intends to make New Hampshire her political home
turf.

Clinton's first trip to New Hampshire since October 2008 featured a rally
with state Democrats, where she linked arms with Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and
Gov. Maggie Hassan, as well as off-schedule stops at popular restaurants in
Manchester and Dover and, by nightfall, a fundraiser for Hassan in
Portsmouth.

Taken together, Clinton's appearances showed her ability to energize
Democrats and underscored the network in New Hampshire that she and her
husband, former President Bill Clinton, have nurtured for more than two
decades. At a Nashua rally, the mere mention of Clinton by Shaheen or
Hassan prompted booming chants of "Hillary!" from about 700 activists in a
community college gymnasium.

"Starting way back in 1991 you opened your homes and your hearts to us,"
Clinton said in a nostalgic turn, recalling her husband's first
presidential campaign. "And in 2008, during the darkest days of my
campaign, you lifted me up, you gave me my voice back, you taught me so
much about grit and determination and I will never forget that."

Clinton's political upbringing often allows her to cite her connections
around the country — and the world, for that matter. Growing up in
Chicago's suburbs, she was a self-described "Goldwater Girl" who supported
Republican Sen. Barry Goldwater in his 1964 landslide loss against
President Lyndon Johnson. She became a Democrat in college and her
political views were shaped by the Vietnam War as a student in
Massachusetts and Connecticut.

In Arkansas, Clinton joined her husband's fast ascent to governor, helping
him rebound from a failed re-election bid and serving as an influential
first lady, attorney and child advocate. She played a strategic role in
Bill Clinton's presidential campaigns and two terms in the White House,
overcame the couple's public struggles during the Monica Lewinsky affair
and moved to New York, winning an open Senate seat in 2000. After Barack
Obama defeated her in the 2008 primary, Clinton campaigned for him and then
logged nearly a million miles as secretary of state.

In New Hampshire, Clinton offered a glimpse of her family's political
staying power in the state that holds the first presidential primary. Her
remarks pointed to specific ways Shaheen had helped voters — protecting
jobs at the Portsmouth Naval Yard, efforts to wide Interstate 93 — and she
echoed Democrats' contention that Republican Scott Brown, Shaheen's
opponent, displayed a poor understanding of the state's geography in a
recent debate.

Later, she plunged into the type of retail politics New Hampshire is known
for, stopping by the Puritan Backroom in Manchester. The restaurant has
long attracted political leaders and is co-owned by an up-and-coming
Democrat, Chris Pappas, who serves on the state's executive council.

That type of campaigning helps maintain Clinton's base here: a network of
Bill Clinton loyalists, supporters of Hillary Clinton's first presidential
campaign and the melding of the Clinton and Obama teams in Ready for
Hillary, a grassroots group encouraging her to run for president.

Democrats here said the dynamics would make it difficult for potential
challengers like Vice President Joe Biden, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley,
former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

New Hampshire, as many Democrats note, is full of Clinton-related
landmarks: the Elks Lodge in Dover where Bill Clinton promised in 1992 to
"be there for you until the last dog dies," or the cafe in Portsmouth where
Hillary Clinton got emotional a day before the 2008 primary, telling a
group of voters "this is very personal for me."

The Clintons have maintained their political network amid these memories,
sending handwritten notes and checking in by phone when a local Democrat
becomes a grandparent or loses a loved one.

"She doesn't take people or relationships for granted," said Terie Norelli,
the outgoing New Hampshire House speaker who received a personal letter
from Hillary Clinton this year after announcing she would step down as
speaker.

Unlike Iowa, which has never sent a woman to Congress or the governor's
mansion, New Hampshire Democrats regularly elect women — with Shaheen and
Hassan at the top. "We're past due for a woman president," said Rita
MacAuslan, a candidate for state representative who wore a white Bill
Clinton 1992 campaign T-shirt at the Nashua rally. "And she brings a
co-president with her."

But few expect Clinton to receive a free pass.

"New Hampshire is Clinton country," said Terry Shumaker, a Manchester
attorney and veteran of Bill Clinton's campaigns. "But if Hillary runs, she
can't take it for granted — as is our tradition, she's going to have to
campaign here and earn it."

*Boston Globe: “Hillary Clinton returns to N.H., hints at 2016 issues”
<http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/11/02/hillary-clinton-campaign-with-jeanne-shaheen-maggie-hassan-new-hampshire/rNXPdVMI3umCS97hOY5ytK/story.html>*

By Joshua Miller

November 2, 2014

[Subtitle:] Economy, equality highlight her push for reelecting Hassan and
Shaheen

NASHUA — She’s back.

Hillary Rodham Clinton, in her first political appearance in this
first-in-the-nation presidential primary state since 2008, spoke to a crowd
of hundreds here Sunday, strongly supporting the reelection bids of US
Senator Jeanne Shaheen and Governor Maggie Hassan and offering a hint of
themes that might animate a potential second White House run.

Clinton spoke in New Hampshire about expanding economic opportunity,
raising the minimum wage, and protecting women’s rights.

She acknowledged that, across the country, there is “a lot of anxiety and
insecurity.” But the former secretary of state and US senator from New York
struck a hopeful note: She bookended her remarks talking about her new
granddaughter and said seeing another generation in the family focuses the
mind on what’s important.

Clinton said she and her husband were raised to believe the American Dream
was within your reach if you worked hard.

“You should not,” Clinton told a packed gymnasium, “have to be the
grandchild of a governor or a senator or a former secretary of state or a
former president to believe that the American Dream is in your reach.”

That, Clinton said to hundreds at Nashua Community College, is what this
election is about. The crowd cheered.

She also told the fired-up audience that the Republican agenda for this
election, stripped down, is fear.

“It’s trying to instill fear. They’re staking everything on it. Fear is the
last resort of those who have run out of ideas and run out of hope,” she
said, adding that Shaheen and Hassan are “fearless.”

In one of the most passionate parts of her 22-minute speech, Clinton spoke
about protecting and expanding women’s rights. She told the crowd it is
astonishing, that in 2014, the country is having a debate about “equal pay
for equal work” and at stake in this election is whether women have the
right to “make our own reproductive health care decisions.”

Clinton said some have questioned why Democrats talk so much about women.
Her answer: “Women’s rights, here at home and around the world, are like
the canary in the mine. You start taking away, you start limiting women’s
rights, who’s next?”

Clinton, who has said she will probably decide on a second White House bid
after 2015 begins, won the New Hampshire Democratic primary in her
ultimately unsuccessful 2008 campaign for her party’s presidential
nomination and is seen as the leading Democratic contender to succeed
President Obama.

She thanked people in the state for opening their homes and hearts to her
and her husband, former president Bill Clinton, and said, in the darkest
days of her presidential campaign, “you lifted me up. You gave me my voice
back. You taught me so much about grit and determination.”

And while she did not explicitly mention a new run Sunday, it was on the
minds of many at the event.

Before the rally, Joyce Armstrong, a 68-year-old from Pembroke, N.H., said
she voted for Clinton in the 2008 primary and will be ready if she makes
another bid. “If she does, I’ll be 100 percent behind her,” Armstrong said.
“There isn’t anybody that has more experience than she does.”

As he was waiting in line with his wife and daughter to get in to the
rally, Frank Cavignano, a 59-year-old from Amherst, N.H., said he had voted
for Barack Obama in the 2008 New Hampshire primary but is now a Clinton
supporter.

“I think she’d be a great follow-on to President Obama,” he said. “And I’m
hoping that she does get elected next time around.”

Cavignano said he hoped she would expand upon on what Obama has achieved in
the realm of health care.

The event with Clinton came two days before Shaheen and Hassan, both
Democrats in competitive races, face voters.

Nationally, analysts predict strong currents of displeasure with Obama will
pull down Democrats, who are poised to lose seats in the US House of
Representatives and, potentially, control of the US Senate.

But recent polls have found Shaheen leading Republican challenger Scott
Brown, a former Massachusetts US senator, and Hassan leading Republican
businessman Walt Havenstein.

Brown, Havenstein, the GOP nominees for the state’s two congressional
districts, and top New Hampshire Republicans held a rally Sunday evening in
Manchester.

Jennifer Horn, the New Hampshire Republican State Committee chairwoman,
released a statement ahead of Clinton’s visit. It said, in part, that
Clinton and Shaheen “share one thing in common — they have both supported
Obama’s failed leadership.”

Clinton’s New Hampshire visit comes after a series of campaign stops across
the country, from Kentucky to Colorado to Pennsylvania.

In September, Clinton also paid a visit to Iowa, a key presidential proving
ground.

In recent days, Democrats a cross New Hampshire have expressed mixed
feelings about the potential of Clinton making another run.

At a cafe in Manchester, 79-year-old Pat Collins, a Democrat, said she felt
“mezzo mezzo” about Clinton.

The reason? “I don’t think you should have the same family: like the Bushes
and the Clintons and all of that,” said Collins, who lives in Manchester.

Emily Jacobs, chairwoman of the Coos County Democratic Party in northern
New Hampshire, said some Democrats in the area have concerns about
Clinton’s ties to corporations. “We’re a Bernie Sanders area,” she said
with a chuckle, referring to the self-described democratic socialist US
senator from nearby Vermont.

But Jacobs said emphatically, “When it comes down to it, she has the best
shot, and we’re going to have her back. Overall, there’s a good feeling for
her.”

She added she is excited about the prospect of a woman president: “It’s
time.”

*Boston Herald: “Hillary Clinton fails to draw at Jeanne Shaheen event”
<http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/us_politics/2014/11/hillary_clinton_fails_to_draw_at_jeanne_shaheen_event>*

By Jack Encarnacao

November 3, 2014

Locked in an intense battle with Scott Brown to hang on to her New
Hampshire congressional seat, U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen sought a last-minute
boost yesterday from a Granite State presidential primary darling, but the
state’s GOP said Hillary Clinton’s stump speech drew an underwhelming crowd
and shows Shaheen is in lockstep with President Obama.

Clinton got loud cheers as she took the stage between Shaheen and N.H. Gov.
Maggie Hassan at Nashua Community College, and praised Shaheen’s support
for jobs at the Portsmouth Naval Yard and legislation to help small
businesses get access to credit.

Clinton took a dig at Brown’s newcomer status in New Hampshire, and said
the race offered a choice “between two very different visions.”

“Either we’re all in this together or we’re all in this on our own,”
Clinton said.

New Hampshire Republican State Committee Chairwoman Jennifer Horn told the
Herald that reports Clinton’s speech campus drew 700 “must have been
disappointing” because state Democrats “booked a space that could hold at
least twice as many.”

“Certainly I think that everybody in the community is surprised at the
turnout, and it doesn’t seem to have created quite the energy that maybe
they had hoped for,” Horn said. “I would suggest that having Hillary
Clinton there is the next best thing to having Barack Obama there. She’s
spent the past six years supporting his policies, executing his policies,
and she is a voice for the policies of Barack Obama.”

Horn said Obama’s policies “have failed, and they have failed with
particular pain here in New Hampshire,” citing some 20,000 residents she
said lost their health insurance in the transition to Obamacare and a state
economy that is “sluggish at best.”

New Hampshire is particularly friendly ground for Clinton — who took the
state in 2008 over Obama after he had won the Iowa caucuses — and her
husband, President Bill Clinton, who consistently did well in the state.

*BuzzFeed’s Ruby Cramer* @rubycramer: Staff at Shaheen/Hassan rally with
@HillaryClinton says crowd on the floor will be capped at 675 + overflow on
upper level. [11/2/14, 12:08 p.m.
<https://twitter.com/rubycramer/status/528956833739067392> EST
<https://twitter.com/rubycramer/status/528956833739067392>]

*Real Clear Politics: “How the Midterms Will Set the Table for 2016”
<http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/11/03/how_the_midterms_will_set_the_table_for_2016__124526.html>*

By Scott Conroy

November 3, 2014

For Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Tuesday's stakes are about as high as they
come.

If he wins his re-election fight against Democrat Mary Burke, Walker not
only will earn a second term in Madison. He’ll acquire a coveted slot as a
top-tier contender for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, if he
decides to pursue it.

But if Walker loses, not only will he be out of a job -- his status as a
serious prospect for the nation’s highest office will evaporate overnight.

With Walker holding on to a slim two-percentage-point lead over Burke in
the latest RealClearPolitics average of polls, neither outcome would be
particularly surprising.

And that’s just one reason why anyone curious about the early jockeying for
2016 should pay close attention to what happens on Tuesday.

After all, the next campaign for president begins on Wednesday.

Walker’s fate is merely the most glaring 2016-related question that will be
answered on Election Day 2014, as the results of the midterms could have a
profound effect on the contours of the next race for the White House.

On the Republican side, in particular, several likely presidential hopefuls
have campaigned aggressively for GOP candidates in tight races around the
country, hoping to collect chits while also boosting their party’s
electoral hopes.

Now they will learn the extent to which their efforts paid off.

***

Two midterm races also considered central to the 2016 landscape have been
closely contested Senate battles in the presidential kickoff states of Iowa
and New Hampshire.

If Republican Joni Ernst defeats Democrat Bruce Braley to become Iowa’s
first female senator, among the out-of-state pols she will have to thank
for bolstering her campaign are Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Mike Huckabee, Rand
Paul, Rick Perry and several others who have their eye on a possible White
House run.

And if Scott Brown is able to come from behind to defeat incumbent Democrat
Jeanne Shaheen in the Granite State, Chris Christie can expect a thank-you
note, too.

Not only did the New Jersey governor lend some star power to Brown’s uphill
campaign effort, he also dispatched two of his former aides to New
Hampshire as part of a concerted effort to reap GOP gains in the state
vital to his 2016 hopes.

In addition, Christie’s role as chairman of the Republican Governors
Association lent him the capacity to campaign extensively in critical
governor races around the country, dispensing tens of millions of dollars
to grateful GOP candidates in the process.

On Thursday, Christie began a five-day, 19-state marathon of events around
the nation --a test run for the kind of grueling national schedule he would
have to carry out as presidential candidate.

In a situation rife with 2016 intrigue, it was Christie’s visit to
Wisconsin on Friday that drew the most scrutiny of all his visits.

Earlier in the week, Walker complained to reporters about the relatively
meager spending that outside groups have contributed to his campaign,
adding for good measure his assessment that Christie was only visiting
Wisconsin because “he asked if he could come and we weren’t going to say
no.”

Walker subsequently sought to clarify that he had not intended to criticize
the RGA. Nonetheless, the perception that Christie had not been overly
enthusiastic about throwing a political life line to a potential 2016 rival
in duress had already become a topic of discussion in conservative circles.

If Walker loses, Christie’s path to the Republican nomination might be made
easier, but it may also come at the expense of some lost goodwill.

***

It is rare that statehouse races have immediate and glaring impacts on
presidential politics, but such is the case in Kentucky where Rand Paul
will be watching closely as the local returns come in Tuesday night.

Under current Kentucky law, Paul -- who is up for re-election to the Senate
in 2016 -- would not be able to run simultaneously to keep his seat and for
the presidency.

The ambitious lawmaker’s allies in the Republican-controlled Kentucky
Senate have already drafted a bill that would change that statute and allow
him to run for both offices, but Paul needs the Kentucky House to flip from
Democratic to Republican control if he wants that legislation to be passed.

And he has made it abundantly clear that he does.

Over the last few months, Paul has campaigned and raised money on behalf of
Kentucky House candidate, in the hopes that the chamber will flip.

***

On the Democratic side of the 2016 equation, Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley
has been by far the most active campaign surrogate among the possible
presidential contenders, making frequent trips to the early voting states
and elsewhere around the nation as he winds down his eight-year tenure in
Annapolis.

If a few Democrats pull out narrow victories in states where O’Malley
helped out, he could find himself in a position to ask for a returned favor
down the line.

But given the nature of the 2016 campaign narrative, all eyes will be on
Hillary Clinton, who twice visited Iowa during this campaign cycle before
headlining a large rally with Shaheen in Nashua, N.H., on Sunday.

In becoming an active surrogate during the midterm campaign’s final weeks,
Clinton has had opportunity to test-drive a few potential messages that
could become central to her widely anticipated 2016 run.

One outcome that Clinton and all of her potential Republican foes will be
paying particularly close attention to is the tight Florida governor’s race
between incumbent GOP Gov. Rick Scott and
Republican-turned-Independent-turned-Democrat Charlie Crist.

In a presidential race, it always helps to have as many members of your own
party as possible in governor’s offices around the nation -- particularly
in the swing state that offers more electoral votes than any other.

*CNN: “How presidential contenders are spending Election Night”
<http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/03/politics/2016ers-on-election-night/index.html>*

By Chris Moody

November 3, 2014, 5:57 a.m. EST

They say you always remember your first.

That's why, as election results pour in Tuesday night, Rick Santorum will
be ready with a fully-charged cell phone and a spreadsheet loaded with
names and numbers of Republican candidates to call as soon as their
victories -- or defeats -- are announced.

"We'll be hitting the phones," Santorum told CNN. "I'm one of the folks who
calls either way. Sometimes it's more important to call the folks who
didn't win than it is the folks who did because the folks who did get a lot
of calls and the folks who didn't don't get many."

For the possible 2016 hopefuls, Election Night calls are about much more
than who controls the Senate. This is an early — and important —
opportunity to build relationships with candidates at all levels of
politics who might come in handy should they decide to campaign for the
White House.

Beyond just being a kind gesture, Election Night calls are an opportunity
to subtly remind candidates -- especially those in early-voting states such
as Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina -- of their support. In
Santorum's case, his effort won't stop with top-of-the-ballot governors or
congressional races, either. His aides plan to monitor state and local
races online throughout Iowa, such the State Auditor and Agriculture
Secretary elections, so he can be one of the first to be in touch. He's
hardly alone.

Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul, one of the most dogged campaign travelers this
cycle, will spend Tuesday night at an event in Louisville for Senate
Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and other statewide candidates. Doug
Stafford, a Paul adviser, will be at his side and will have cell phone
numbers ready to dial.

"We will call a bunch but will also probably end up talking to more over
the subsequent days when they have time to take a breath," Stafford told
CNN. "It has been my experience the most difficult time to reach anyone is
on their election night."

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie plans to be in his home state on Election
Night with the numbers handy for every GOP gubernatorial candidate on the
ballot this year. He's kept an ambitious campaigning and fundraising
schedule this year in his role as the chairman of the Republican Governors
Association.

For their part, representatives for Democratic presidential hopefuls
Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden wouldn't detail their Election Night plans,
although both have invested time on the trail campaigning for their party
candidates.

Other prominent Republicans will stay busy even if they're not going to
such great lengths as Santorum's phone call spreadsheet. Wisconsin Rep.
Paul Ryan, the GOP's 2012 vice presidential candidate, will keep tabs on
the election results with local candidates and supporters in Burlington.

Meanwhile, in Texas, there will be plenty of 2016 intrigue at a gathering
to celebrate Greg Abbott's expected win in the governor's race. That party,
at the Moody Theater in Austin, will attract three possible 2016 White
House contenders Cruz, Perry and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush under one
roof.

The election night phone call tradition, of course, is just a small part of
the effort that goes into fostering goodwill for presidential contenders.
Many potential 2016ers, including Paul, Santorum, Texas Gov. Rick Perry,
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, have logged tens of
thousands of miles supporting candidates this election cycle.

Those efforts kicked into hyper-drive in final days of campaign season.
Christie, for instance, stumped in 15 states in the last week of the race.
Over the weekend, Santorum traveled to Kansas, Texas, North Carolina and
Iowa, where his advocacy organization, Patriot Voices, bussed in volunteers
to knock on doors for candidates in the first-in-the-nation caucus state.
Florida GOP Sen. Marco Rubio went to to Iowa to promote Senate candidate
Joni Ernst and others. And Cruz hoofed it to Alaska to support Republican
Senate candidate Dan Sullivan.

They're betting that it will all be worth the effort when the presidential
primary season begins in earnest, a time when each contender will be making
a very different round of phone calls—asking for support for their own
campaigns.

*Real Clear Politics: “Megyn Kelly: Hillary Gave Women Permission To Reject
Her When She Said Being A Woman Is Not Enough”
<http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/11/02/megyn_kelly_hillary_gave_women_permission_to_reject_her_when_she_said_being_a_women_is_not_enough.html>*

[FOX NEWS SUNDAY TRANSCRIPT]

November 2, 2014

CHRIS WALLACE, FOX NEWS SUNDAY: In a sense, it seems to me these midterms
have been kind of a test run for potential 2016 candidates. Let's start,
Megyn, with Hillary Clinton, between her book roll-out, when she claimed
they were broke leaving the White House, and now this week, about business
and corporations don't create jobs -- I'd like to know who does -- what
have we learned in 2014 about Hillary Clinton's strengths and weaknesses as
a potential presidential candidate?

MEGYN KELLY, KELLY FILE: First of all, we have learned she's definitely
running, and she learned last time around when she ran against Barack Obama
that there are no guarantees. That this nomination is not secured for her,
so we've seen her stumping a lot in Iowa, New Hampshire and so on, and
we've also learned she's not foolproof. She's made a lot of mistake that
have potentially alienated maybe not her base, but those sort of people in
the middle she's trying to appeal to.

But I've heard a lot of pundits say it happened early enough, she learned
from it, it was good that she did the book roll-out and got those out of
the way before she really needs to be stellar.

One thing she said this week that jumped out at me when she was stumping in
Iowa, she said it's not enough to be a woman, you also have to forcefully
advocate for policies that help women. And when I heard that, I heard
people in the middle getting permission from Hillary Clinton to reject her
based on gender alone. In other words, you don't need to vote for me just
because I'm a woman. I know that's not how she meant it, but I think she
basically gave a lot of women permission to reject her on the basis of
gender alone.

*Boston Herald: “Pols join throngs for public Tom Menino tribute”
<http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2014/11/pols_join_throngs_for_public_tom_menino_tribute>*

By Laurel J. Sweet and Antonio Planas

November 3, 2014

High and low, the pols and people of Boston came through driving rain and
snow to pay their final respects to the consummate man of all the people,
the late Mayor Thomas M. Menino, before his last procession through the
streets he loved, and his private funeral and burial today.

“I came because I just wanted to pay my respects to someone who had done so
much for this city,” said Cam Naimi, 45, of the South End. “He worked so
hard to make people’s lives better. I think that’s what a mayor’s job is
and he really exemplified that.”

Boston’s longest-serving mayor will be carried through the streets to 10
locations — from City Hall to Fenway Park to Dudley Square — en route to a
private funeral Mass today at noon at Most Precious Blood Church in West
Roxbury where he was baptized. Yesterday, he lay in state in Faneuil Hall
in an open casket embossed with the city seal in a dark gray suit, blue tie
and his signature wire-rimmed glasses, as passing Boy Scouts saluted and
teary-eyed women and men blew kisses to his widow, Angela, from behind
velvet ropes.

“What I liked about him was he was just a regular person. He didn’t use
fancy language. He spoke right to you. He was a man of the people: rich,
poor, black, white,” said Sheila Azores, principal of the Boston Adult
Technical Academy.

One admirer, with a finger in the condensation on a window, wrote: “Mayor
Menino. Best thing to ever happen.”

Amid intense multi-agency security that included several bomb-sniffing dogs
and 100 Boston police officers, the throngs began lining up at dawn in a
parade of people that stepped off from under two tents, fed back though a
former greenhouse and stretched to the intersection of State and Congress
streets.

U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry said, “I think the outpouring of
feelings and stories, everything people are learning about him, just
demonstrates how one guy can really make a difference in people’s lives.
God bless him. He was just a spectacular public servant and a great mayor
of Boston and I think he marked an era of a kind of politics that people
want, people miss. It’s not partisan, but it’s taking care of folks and
making sure things are better.”

While Gov. Deval Patrick discreetly slipped in with hands folded and his
head bowed beneath a ball cap, Menino’s successor, Mayor Martin J. Walsh,
his mother, Mary Walsh, and girlfriend Lorrie Higgins, led a procession of
who’s who among past and present political dignitaries, including sitting
city councilors, former Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, former Senate President
William Bulger and U.S. Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy III. Hillary Clinton, who
had been expected to attend, was stumping in New Hampshire for U.S. Sen.
Jeanne Shaheen, but cited a mechanical issue with her plane and called
Angela Menino to offer her condolences instead, former Menino spokeswoman
Dot Joyce said.

Both major-party gubernatorial candidates came. Democrat Attorney General
Martha Coakley said, “Since we got the news last week, everybody’s hearts
have been very heavy. He meant so much to everybody. It’s a sad day, but
it’s a terrific tribute to him and everything he stands for.”

Republican rival Charlie Baker said, “I guess on some level, I wish he had
more time to enjoy his retirement with his wife, kids and grandkids because
we all know he spent the last 20 years giving everything he had to the city
of Boston and its people. I’m sad about that. But the flip side of that is
people turned out on a terrible day and stood in line for a long time to
come in and pay their respects to him because they’re grateful for
everything he did for the city.”

*The Daily Beast: “Bernie Sanders Is Showing Us the Socialist Way to Run
for President”
<http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/03/bernie-sanders-is-showing-us-the-socialist-way-to-run-for-president.html>*

By David Freedlander

November 3, 2014

[Subtitle:] Let Hillary and Elizabeth stump for the big-ticket
candidates—the Vermont senator is jumping into a tiny California town’s
fight against Chevron and keynoting the ‘Fighting Bobfest.’

Hillary Clinton has been the Democrats’ ace in the hole, the star
attraction at rallies in liberal New York and conservative Kentucky.
Elizabeth Warren has been barnstorming for fellow progressives, hoping to
increase the numbers of the so-called Warren wing of the Senate. Martin
O’Malley, the eager Maryland governor, has made appearances at seemingly
every housewarming party for every county council candidate from New
Hampshire to Nevada.

But what about Bernie Sanders? The socialist senator from Vermont has been
perhaps more explicit about his 2016 ambitions than any of the
aforementioned contenders, telling The Nation magazine in the spring that
“I am prepared to run for president of the United States” and telling The
Daily Beast this summer that “I am giving serious thought to it.”

But Sanders is no great demand in the swing states, and he hasn’t been
collecting chits in the early primary states. Indeed, a review of his
campaign schedule reveals a highly unorthodox approach in the pre-primary
presidential process.

There was a fundraiser for Keith Ellison, the Minnesota congressman who is
one of the most consistently liberal members of the House and who routinely
wins election by 50 points or more (and who faces only token opposition
this year). Sanders also fundraised and campaigned for Gloria Bromell
Tinubu, a former member of the Georgia state legislature who is making her
second run for Congress in deeply conservative South Carolina after losing
in 2012 to Rep. Tim Rice by 14 points.

In tiny Richmond, California, Sanders has gotten involved in the battle for
control of the City Council, a campaign that has received little mainstream
media attention but has become a touchstone in progressive circles. There
lawmakers are engaged in a fight with Chevron over the oil giant’s plans to
upgrade a local refinery and a group of local progressives has been trying
to keep the City Council under their control against a slate of
business-backed candidates.

More than 500 people attended a rally that Sanders headlined in Richmond.
He is the only national political figure to get involved.

“He helped bring national attention to it,” said Mike Parker, one of the
leaders of the Richmond Progressive Alliance. “He was the first U.S.
senator to have spoken in Richmond in my memory. Most people outside of the
Bay Area don’t even know that Richmond exists. It really energized people
here. We are up against a really tough operation that is sitting on
millions of dollars. He helped give people the sense that we could do
something just by pulling so many people together.”

Asked why no other national political figures have followed Sanders into
the breach, Parker replied, “He has got more guts than they do, and he is
independent of the big corporations.”

If Sanders has not been campaigning for some of the big-ticket senators and
governors this cycle, it is because he has been hitting the hustings in a
manner that resembles more what his eventual (possible) presidential
campaign would look like—outside the system, and relying on labor unions
and community groups.

He has, for example, twice held rallies and town halls for the South
Carolina Progressive Network, an umbrella group of grassroots organizations
that tries to move the Palmetto State’s politics leftward. He keynoted the
“Fighting Bobfest,” an annual gathering in central Wisconsin dedicated to
the memory of the early 20th-century senator Robert La Follette. And even
if candidates haven’t embraced having Sanders on stage with them, he has
made the rounds to local Democratic parties, hosting a fundraiser for the
Hillsborough County Democratic Committee in New Hampshire (the first
primary’s state Democratic senator, Jeanne Shaheen, was a no-show) and
keynoting the Clinton County Democratic Hall of Fame Dinner in Goose Lake,
Iowa. He has hosted town halls at the International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers union hall in Jackson, Mississippi, and fundraisers at
the AFSCME headquarters in Philadelphia and a Longshoreman’s hall in
Charleston, South Carolina.

In an interview with Esquire magazine, Sanders explained that this approach
was consistent with his belief that the two major political parties have
failed to reach out to most voters.

“Yesterday in the evening, in Raleigh, North Carolina, we spoke to over
three hundred people, working people, from the AFL-CIO and other groups,”
he said. “Do I think those people are satisfied with what’s going on in
this country? Do I think that they want real change? I think they do. In
Columbia, South Carolina, we had two hundred people out. We had seniors,
blacks, whites—a real coalition of people—and we had a lot of them in
Mississippi for the AFL-CIO.

“The bottom line is I think the Beltway mentality underestimates the
frustration and the anger that people are feeling in this country with both
the economic and the political status quo.”

And if candidates on the ballot this year are reluctant to campaign
alongside Sanders, they are not shy about taking his money.

The Vermont senator has given out over $200,000 through his two PACs,
Friends of Bernie and Progressive Voters of America. The PVA, in turn, has
donated tens of thousands of dollars to embattled red state Democrats like
Mark Begich of Alaska, Kay Hagan of North Carolina, and Mary Landrieu of
Louisiana.

*Calendar:*

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

·  November 21  – New York, NY: Sec. Clinton presides over meeting of the
Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (Bloomberg
<http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2014-11-02/clinton-aides-resist-calls-to-jump-early-into-2016-race>
)

·  November 21  – New York, NY: Sec. Clinton is honored by the New York
Historical Society (Bloomberg
<http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2014-11-02/clinton-aides-resist-calls-to-jump-early-into-2016-race>
)

·  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/>)