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*​**Correct The Record Friday November 14, 2014 Afternoon Roundup:* *Tweets:* *Pres. Bill Clinton* @billclinton: I was "Happy" to be honored! MT @Pharrell: It was an honor to perform for @BillClinton w @herbiehancock at Thelonious Monk Jazz Institute [11/13/14, 7:05 p.m. EST <https://twitter.com/billclinton/status/533048034704490496>] *Correct The Record* @CorrectRecord: .@HillaryClinton <https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton> supported a job training and placement program for court reporters #HRC365 <https://twitter.com/hashtag/HRC365?src=hash>http://1.usa.gov/1pzBbdH <http://t.co/TTRt9zIxUy>[11/14/14, 11:30 a.m. EST <https://twitter.com/CorrectRecord/status/533295912236240896>] *Headlines:* *MSNBC: “Clinton network gathers in Little Rock to reminisce and plot” <http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/clinton-network-gathers-little-rock-reminisce-and-plot>* “The formal program kicks Friday morning with an all-day symposium featuring major Clinton administration figures and continues Saturday with Hillary and Chelsea Clinton. In-between, once-and-possibly future Clinton staffers say there will be plenty of talk about Hillary Clinton’s future plans.” *Washington Post blog: Post Politics: “Participants assess the (Bill) Clinton legacy as Clinton library turns 10” <http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/11/14/participants-assess-the-bill-clinton-legacy-as-clinton-library-turns-10/>* “The long weekend is sort of like a destination wedding for Clintonistas past and maybe future.” *New York Times: “Spurred by Midterm Losses, Liberal and Moderate Democrats Square Off Over Strategy” <http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/15/us/politics/democratic-party-iberals-and-moderates.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0>* “Hillary Rodham Clinton, should she run, will face tension between the business-friendly wing of the party that was ascendant in the economic boom during her husband’s administration and the populism of Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, that has gained currency of late.” *U.S. News & World Report: “Terry McAuliffe: 60 Days Until Hillary Decision” <http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/run-2016/2014/11/14/terry-mcauliffe-60-days-until-hillary-decision>* “Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe says Hillary Clinton will know whether she's running for president in 2016 within the next 60 days.” *Bloomberg: “Jim Webb and the Lost History of the Pre-Obama Left” <http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2014-11-13/jim-webb-and-the-lost-history-of-the-preobama-left>* “There's no soft-pedaling that criticism. The new Democratic Party expects to win the 2016 election by, for the thirteenth consecutive time, losing the white vote but racking up huge wins with minorities.” *Articles:* *MSNBC: “Clinton network gathers in Little Rock to reminisce and plot” <http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/clinton-network-gathers-little-rock-reminisce-and-plot>* By Alex Seitz-Wald November 14, 2014, 7:18 a.m. EST LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas – The sprawling Clinton network will gather here this weekend to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the former president’s library – and to look forward to the likely next presidential franchise of the Clinton enterprise. All three Clinton family members, along with hundreds of friends, former aides, donors, and supporters – not to mention a sprinkling of celebrities – are expected in the city where Bill Clinton was once governor. It’s one part alumni reunion, one part citywide festival, and one part pre-game huddle ahead of an almost certain fourth Clinton family presidential run. The city is hosting weeks of events and exhibitions to showcase its favorite son, from an exhibition on Hillary Clinton’s handbags to a bike tour of Bill Clinton’s favorite haunts. The formal program kicks Friday morning with an all-day symposium featuring major Clinton administration figures and continues Saturday with Hillary and Chelsea Clinton. In-between, once-and-possibly future Clinton staffers say there will be plenty of talk about Hillary Clinton’s future plans. It’s one of two major Clinton network gatherings this month in the critical interregnum between the midterm election and the start of Clinton’s expected second presidential campaign, which is likely to come early next year. If the Little Rock event is colored with nostalgia for the last Clinton White House, the other event, a meeting of the largest donors to the pro-Clinton Ready for Hilary super PAC in the first family’s other home of New York City, is decidedly more focused on a future Clinton White House. That event will bring together later this month hundreds of the groups largest donors, along with top strategists and Clinton insiders in the same hotel that hosts the annual Clinton Global Initiative. Together, the events will help chart the course for Clinton’s first moves out of the gate next week. There will be plenty of unsolicited advice. While Clintons may spend more time these days in Manhattan or Washington, Arkansas may still be there place where their presence is most felt. To get to William J. Clinton Presidential Center in downtown Little Rock, you fly into Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport, then head West past the Clinton School of Public Policy at the University of Arkansas, before turning onto President Clinton Avenue, which takes you past the Clinton Presidential Park and the Clinton Presidential Park Bridge. The city’s visitor bureau offers a “Billgrimage” tour for those seeking more. The library opened under inauspicious circumstances in 2004, as a cold rain dampened the outdoor event as then-Presidents George W. Bush, his father George H.W. Bush, and Jimmy Carter huddled under umbrellas along with 30,000 onlookers. The $165 million-dollar library, built on a formerly blighted plot of land downtown on the river, has revitalized the area. The library and museum complex has been responsible for $2.5 billion in economic development, the city’s tourism board is eager to note, and helped put Little Rock on several magazine’s list of best places to live. Its downtown is now filled with restaurants and bars, and the city touts that it is “home to the most LED-illuminated bridges, spanning a major body of water, in the country.” The dedication ceremony included a performance by U2 frontman Bono, while this year’s celebration centers around a major concert Saturday night featuring pop star Nick Jonas, Kool and the Gang, “House of Cards” star Kevin Spacey and others. *Washington Post blog: Post Politics: “Participants assess the (Bill) Clinton legacy as Clinton library turns 10” <http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/11/14/participants-assess-the-bill-clinton-legacy-as-clinton-library-turns-10/>* By Ann Gearan November 14, 2014, 11:40 a.m. EST LITTLE ROCK — Cabinet members, senior advisers and a long list of loyalists and retainers gathered Friday for an all-day retrospective of Bill Clinton's two terms as president that also crackled with the possibility of another Clinton White House. To mark the 10th anniversary of the Clinton Presidential Center here, the Clinton library scheduled panel discussions on foreign, domestic and economic policy decision-making during the two Clinton terms. The discussion Friday inaugurated a four-day celebration of all things Clinton. The long weekend is sort of like a destination wedding for Clintonistas past and maybe future. On the schedule after Friday's wonky start are an event highlighting Hillary Rodham Clinton's work on behalf of women and girls, a discussion of how the Clinton library has improved the economic bottom line of Little Rock, a free concert and a barbecue. The University of Virginia's Miller Center will be releasing a trove of more than 130 oral history interviews with Clinton administration participants later Friday. The project is in collaboration with the Clinton Center, a gleaming modernist glass and steel affair that has anchored an economic revitalization of a formerly blighted waterfront industrial zone. Neither former president Bill Clinton nor former secretary of state Hillary Clinton was on hand as former national security adviser Sandy Berger and others began an examination of Clinton national security policy Friday. Haitian refugees, North Korean nuclear weapons and Balkan chaos were among the topics at hand Friday morning. Some of Hillary Clinton's besties were there, however, including Capricia Marshall and Cheryl Mills. Both served both in the Clinton White House and at Hillary Clinton's State Department, and are expected to be part of a 2016 campaign should Clinton mount one. Berger put the task of any White House in coping with fast-moving world events in colorful context. Being national security adviser, Berger said, "is like riding on the elephant and then having to clean up after the elephant when you're done." *New York Times: “Spurred by Midterm Losses, Liberal and Moderate Democrats Square Off Over Strategy” <http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/15/us/politics/democratic-party-iberals-and-moderates.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0>* By Jonathan Martin November 14, 2014 WASHINGTON — The Democrats’ widespread losses last week have revived a debate inside the party about its fundamental identity, a long-running feud between center and left that has taken on new urgency in the aftermath of a disastrous election and in a time of deeply felt economic anxiety. The discussion is taking place in post-election meetings, conference calls and dueling memos from liberals and moderates. But it will soon grow louder, shaping the actions of congressional Democrats in President Obama’s final two years and, more notably, defining the party’s presidential primary in 2016. “The debate will ultimately play out in a battle for the soul of the Clinton campaign,” said Matt Bennett, a senior official at Third Way, the centrist political group. Hillary Rodham Clinton, should she run, will face tension between the business-friendly wing of the party that was ascendant in the economic boom during her husband’s administration and the populism of Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, that has gained currency of late. “I want her to run on a raising wages agenda and not cater to Wall Street but to everyday people,” Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, said of his expectations for Mrs. Clinton. Straddling the two blocs could prove difficult. Progressives have been emboldened to criticize party leaders after the Republican rout, particularly given a lack of a coherent Democratic message to address the problem of stagnant wages. Sifting through returns showing that lower-income voters either supported Republicans or did not vote, liberals argue that without a more robust message about economic fairness, the party will continue to suffer among working class voters, particularly in the South and Midwest. Mr. Obama’s wide popularity among activists and his attempt to transcend the traditional moderate-versus-liberal divide have largely papered over Democratic divisions on economic policy for the last six years. The party was also brought together by passage the health care law, a goal of Democratic presidents since Harry Truman. But with Mr. Obama’s popularity flagging, and an economic recovery largely benefiting the affluent, Democrats are clashing anew. Unlike the 1980s, when heavy losses prompted moderates to plead with the party to move away from liberal interest groups and toward to the middle, it is now progressives who are the most outspoken. And they are seizing on the election results to reorient the party. “Too many Democrats are too close to Wall Street, too many Democrats support trade agreements that outsource jobs and too many Democrats are too willing to cut Social Security — and that’s why we lose elections,” said Senator Sherrod Brown, Democrat of Ohio. Mr. Brown said he had talked to over 60 Ohio Democrat leaders and activists since they got trounced in every statewide election and saw their state chairman quit. “The message I heard from all of them was: the Democratic Party should fight for the little guy.” Continue reading the main story To help provide a bridge to liberals, Senate Democrats on Thursday named Ms. Warren as part of their leadership. While overwhelmingly in sync on the substance of cultural issues, some of the populists believe Democrats placed too much emphasis on such matters and not enough on economic fairness, depressing voter turnout. "Gay marriage, abortion and birth control are important,” said Terry O’Sullivan, president of the Laborers International Union. “But people join our organization for their livelihood, and that’s what our people vote on: their economic self-interest. I do think the party needs to re-examine what it stands for and get back to bread-and-butter issues.” Labor is having its own struggles, with membership declining and Republican-controlled states moving to limit union power. Democrats lost crucial races in part because of their candidates’ struggles in traditional union enclaves like eastern Iowa, suburban Detroit and parts of Wisconsin. For example, in losing to the Republican they perhaps most wanted to beat, Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, unions saw their members’ turnout slip. After making up 32 percent of all voters in the 2012 recall attempt against Mr. Walker, union households made up just 21 percent of the Wisconsin electorate last week. Part of that drop is a result of Mr. Walker’s pushing through changes to collective bargaining law that thinned the ranks of his state’s union members. But what exasperates some labor leaders is that Mary Burke, the Democrat who tried to unset Mr. Walker, would not even commit to undoing the changes that have crippled unions. Echoing many liberals, Steve Rosenthal, a longtime Democratic strategist with ties to labor, said progressive organizations and unions should become more engaged in primaries and push candidates to stand for their agenda just as the right tries to make Republican candidates hew to conservative orthodoxy. “I think it’s critical for folks on the left to do more of the same,” Mr. Rosenthal said There were a handful of bright spots in an otherwise dismal year for Democrats, and progressives are holding up as models the success of three Senate candidates who ran as populists: Senator Al Franken of Minnesota, Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Senator-elect Gary Peters of Michigan. Mr. Merkley won by 19 percentage points with a campaign centered on the loss of well-paying jobs, the spiraling cost of college tuition and his opposition to trade deals that he said send jobs overseas. While Democrats nationally were losing whites without a college degree by 30 percentage points, Mr. Merkley narrowly carried that bloc of voters. “We didn’t lose them here in Oregon because we talked about what they care about,” Mr. Merkley said. But some center-left Democrats believe that this is the exception and that the party should give up on winning a majority of such voters. “Slowly and steadily since 1968, culture has trumped economics with voting and the white working class,” said Kenneth Baer, a former Obama administration official who has written a book on modern liberalism. “It’s become the great white whale for a shipful of Democratic strategists. Obama proved that while we cannot get wiped out with that demographic, the future of the coalition is among growing parts of the electorate which are neither white nor working class.” The question of which voters to pursue captures the party’s broader debate about its agenda. Centrist Democrats have chalked up the party’s losses to an insufficient performance among moderate and middle-class voters. “We talk about policies helping the middle-class, but the ones we promote the most are ones that don’t speak to the middle-class, like raising the minimum wage,” said Al From, who founded the moderate Democratic Leadership Council in the 1980s to counter the party’s move to the left and helped propel Bill Clinton to the White House in 1992. Many liberals believe the disconnect between the politics of the party’s grass-roots and the message they hear from Democratic administrations has left blue-collar voters unenthused. “We do not have to struggle for an agenda that connects with working-class voters,” said Representative Rosa DeLauro, Democrat of Connecticut. “We have an agenda that does that, but it does not get vocalized at the top.” Yet many progressives concur that simply pushing an increase in the minimum wage is an inadequate solution. Liberals want tougher restrictions on banks, more generous federal student loan aid, enhanced collective bargaining rights and a reassessment of the country’s trade policy. Mr. Obama has made clear he intends to work with congressional Republicans to push for fewer restrictions on trade. Some union leaders said they intended to fight those efforts, and would be looking for an ally in Mrs. Clinton. “The next six months we’re going to be relentless on trade,” vowed Larry Cohen, president of the Communications Workers of America. “I hope she comes to our side on this fight. The president is not starting out there.” *U.S. News & World Report: “Terry McAuliffe: 60 Days Until Hillary Decision” <http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/run-2016/2014/11/14/terry-mcauliffe-60-days-until-hillary-decision>* By David Catanese November 14, 2014, 12:35 p.m. EST [Subtitle:] The close Clinton friend says Hillary will decide on 2016 by mid-January. Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe says Hillary Clinton will know whether she's running for president in 2016 within the next 60 days. That's the timeline the Clinton confidante outlined to U.S. News' Nikki Schwab Thursday night during a conversation at the Knock Out Abuse gala, an anti-domestic violence charity event held at The Ritz-Carlton in Washington. Here's what McAuliffe said: "She’s got to make that decision and she’s got to spend the next 60 days making that decision. Obviously I’m close friends with the Clintons, I chaired her last campaign. If you know Hillary, she’s going to make up her own mind. I tell you, I hope she runs. It’s time for a woman president of the United States of America. Put the woman issue aside for a minute – she’s tough, she is smart, she is very pro-business, she will get this economy going. She will help the middle class. So I’m hoping she runs, but you know, it’s her decision. But I’m really hoping she runs, but I’m leaving that decision to her." Sixty days from now would place Clinton's decision around mid-January. When she reveals that decision is an entirely different question. When Schwab floated a Clinton-McAuliffe ticket, the former Democratic National Committee chairman and legendary fundraiser just laughed. "I'm just happy to support her," he replied. *Bloomberg: “Jim Webb and the Lost History of the Pre-Obama Left” <http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2014-11-13/jim-webb-and-the-lost-history-of-the-preobama-left>* By David Weigel November 13, 2014, 11:57 a.m. EST [Subtitle:] The “centrist” critic of Hillary Clinton is not centrist at all. In post-election stories about Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign—and its discontents—one-term Virginia Senator Jim Webb is sometimes described as a challenger from Clinton's right. The latest example comes from Maggie Haberman and Hadas Gold's sharp story about the left-wing media's approach to Clinton: "Even Webb, who was Ronald Reagan’s Navy secretary and claims to have told President Barack Obama that health care reform would be a 'disaster,' has gotten some love on the left." But Webb isn't exactly a figure of the right, or even the center-left. In 2006, when he was writing books and columns critical of the Iraq War, Webb was drafted into Virginia's U.S. Senate race by progressives. Virginia's blue blogs (like the defunct Raising Kaine) and the progressive hub Daily Kos were hotbeds of pro-Webb sentiment. As Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas wrote in 2013, community members "raised millions of dollars and generated on-the-ground activism" for Webb and other candidates who were not traditionally left-wing. Has anything changed? "Webb was the best we could do in a state like Virginia in 2006," wrote Moulitsas in an e-mail. "He was the epitome of Netroots ideological pragmatism. That same pragmatism tells us that we could do far better than Webb today pretty much anywhere outside the Deep South or Idaho, and he certainly isn't someone who could credibly run to Hillary's LEFT. So his flirtations are pretty much a joke." Fair enough. But Webb's criticisms of the Obama-era Democrats are not particularly right-wing. His anger over the Affordable Care Act started with the process, in which "five different congressional committees voted out their version of health-care reform, and so you had 7,000 pages of contradictory information." Few progressives disagree with that. Webb never took back his vote for the law, or for the idea of universal health care. When he called it a "disaster," he was describing the process that created a law that's heading toward its second Supreme Court challenge. His beef with the Democratic Party was not that it moved left per se, but that it "evolved too strongly into interest groups rather than representing working people, including small business people." There's no soft-pedaling that criticism. The new Democratic Party expects to win the 2016 election by, for the thirteenth consecutive time, losing the white vote but racking up huge wins with minorities. (The national "white vote" is skewed by the Democrats' abysmal numbers with white voters in the South.) Most Democrats now believe that Hillary Clinton can bend the map enough to win. Webb is a specter from a recent Democratic past when activists hoped that the party could do much more—without abandoning any "left" principles.