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| Hillary Clinton holds the key to 2016 White House race
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 14-December-2012
2:59:40 AM |
| : Will she, won't she, will she, won't she, will she join the dance? To borrow from "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," that's the question on everyone's lips about Hillary Clinton and the 2016 White House race.
And just like Alice, who followed the White Rabbit down the hole into a strange and topsy-turvy universe, nothing is ever quite what it seems in Clintonland or the ever-shifting world of US politics.
It doesn't matter how many times Clinton rules out another White House bid. No one seems to believe that a woman who has proved a master at re-inventing herself will simply ride off into the sunset.
"I've said I really don't believe that that's something I will do again," she reiterated, referring to her 2008 bid, when asked by ABC's Barbara Walters this week whether she will run in the 2016 presidential election.
As Clinton prepares to step down as secretary of state, she can boast approval ratings of about 60 percent, higher than anyone in the cabinet of President Barack Obama - who beat her in a Democratic primary four years ago.
"Every Democrat I know says: 'God, I hope she runs. We don't need a primary. Let's just go to post with this thing,'" Democratic Party strategist James Carville, a friend of the Clintons, said Sunday on ABC.
"The Democrats want her to run. And I don't just mean a lot of Democrats. I mean a whole lot of Democrats, like 90 percent across the country."
Recent polls would seem to bear out his enthusiasm. A Washington Post-ABC poll last week said 57 percent of Americans would support her if she ran again, as well as some 60 percent of Republican women.
And while four years is an eon in politics, Clinton, arguably the world's most powerful advocate for women and girls, must still nurse the desire to smash America's last elusive glass ceiling.
Her husband, former president Bill Clinton, is said to want her to run, and as Hillary Clinton - or "The Boss" as she is known at State - returns to private life,
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