Hillary Rodham Clinton: Difference between revisions

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She won again by a significant margin in 2006, but left the Senate<ref>and was replaced by Kirsten Gillibrand, D-NY</ref> to engage in the closest primary election in American history - the 2008 Presidential race on the Democratic ticket. Up against [[Barack Obama]], she won over 18 million votes around the country and was the first serious female candidate for the Presidency in history (Michele Bachmann, in the 2012 Presidential race on the Republican ticket, was the second). She fought the campaign out right up to the Democratic National Convention and spoke in favor of her former rival as its keynote speaker on its second night. Since [[Defeat Means Friendship]], she joined Obama's cabinet as Secretary of State (becoming the first First Lady to serve on the Cabinet... are we seeing a running theme here?). She has also achieved the commendable feat of a 70% approval rating at a time when the [[Barack Obama|President]]'s rating was somewhere in the 50s. She said she has no interest in running for a political office again, but this proved false in 2016.
 
In 2016 Hillary Clinton won a narrow and controversial victory in the Democrat primary against previously obscure Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. She then picked Virginia ex-governor and then-current senator Tim Kaine as her running mate. She lost the general election to [[Donald Trump]] in an electoral landslide, 232 to 306, failing to win many states previously considered Democrat strongholds such as Michigan and Pennsylvania. Of these 232 electoral votes, 38 came from 6 states she won by less than the vote total for third party candidates. This despite leading Donald Trump in polls throughout the election season and 16winning camethe frompopular Virginiavote by a margin of over 3 million.<ref>There are folks who have written in much greater detail how and why the election turned out this way, wherebut the short version is 200that,000 felonswhile hadthere theirwere votingmore privilegesClinton restoredsupporters atthan lastTrump minutesupporters throughout the election season, there were also substantial numbers of voters who didn't much like either. They were undecided during the polls leading into November, and wouldbroke havefor otherwiseTrump on Election Day. There were enough of these voters in enough swing states to flip what had been predicted to be a caselead offor thisClinton into a loss. Despite thisSome sheprediction wonmodels theincluded popularthis votepossibility (such as FiveThirtyEight, whichwho assessed Trump maintainsto washave a result35% chance of fraudulentvictory votingon byNovember illegal7 immigrants-- which may seem low in retrospect given that Trump won, but they actually got hate mail in the final weeks leading up to the election for giving Trump such ''strong'' odds), and some didn't (e.g. the New York Times) and got a rude surprise as the entireexit differencepolls couldrolled bein. attributed toThe popular vote 'victory' came from extremely strong turnout in Democratic strongholds, such as California. Unfortunately for the Clinton campaign, whichthe encouraged[[American suchPolitical System|Electoral College]] is winner-take-all -- winning a state by millions of votes or by one vote doesn't make a difference in the rest of the country.</ref>
 
Although several different biographies of her have been written, she has also written her own autobiography, ''Living History''.
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** Chelsea looks frighteningly like her mother in [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Chelsea_Clinton.jpg this picture]. If she follows anything even remotely resembling a political career (which her degree in history makes possible), it'll probably become something of a [[Generation Xerox]], too.
** Now sort-of confirmed: Chelsea will be working for [[NBC]] News, including both the ''Nightly News'' and ''[[Rock Center]]''. Either way, she's working with [[Brian Williams]].
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: She once was Obama's opponent, nowand she'sthen was his Secretary of State. (Although it should be noted that they were ''opponents'', not enemies. Even when they were facing off in '08, their respect for each other despite their disagreements was clear.)
 
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