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*​**Correct The Record Tuesday October 14, 2014 Afternoon Roundup:* *Tweets:* *Correct The Record* @CorrectRecord: #ICYMI <https://twitter.com/hashtag/ICYMI?src=hash> @GGPotter <https://twitter.com/ggpotter> is proud to have @HillaryClinton <https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton> at UNLV via @ElkoDaily <https://twitter.com/ElkoDaily> http://elkodaily.com/09/commentary-proud-to-have-hillary-clinton-at-unlv/article_c5a48f1d-9ee8-58a5-bef1-8b126969ebdc.html … <http://t.co/e6CqWF9z47> [10/13/14, 5:41 p.m. EDT <https://twitter.com/CorrectRecord/status/521777702957633537>] *Correct The Record* @CorrectRecord: .@HillaryClinton <https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton> “has done so much more to promote education than just raise money… She’s...​ ​made a real difference.” -Gregg Potter [10/13/14, 3:43 p.m. EDT <https://twitter.com/CorrectRecord/status/521747999995600896>] *Correct The Record* @CorrectRecord: UNLV grad: “Hillary Clinton… has spent her entire career increasing educational opportunities for so many people, including me.” ​@ElkoDaily <https://twitter.com/ElkoDaily> [10/13/14, 3:38 p.m. EDT <https://twitter.com/CorrectRecord/status/521746727825469441>] *Correct The Record* @CorrectRecord: Commentary: Proud to have Hillary Clinton at UNLV via @ElkoDaily <https://twitter.com/ElkoDaily> http://elkodaily.com/09/commentary-proud-to-have-hillary-clinton-at-unlv/article_c5a48f1d-9ee8-58a5-bef1-8b126969ebdc.html … <http://t.co/mILEYisMnc> [10/13/14, 3:34 p.m. EDT <https://twitter.com/CorrectRecord/status/521745713827688449>] *Headlines:* *Huffington Post opinion: Peter D. Rosenstein: “Hillary Clinton is Right; Every Child must be Considered 'Too Small to Fail'” <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-d-rosenstein/hillary-clinton-is-right_b_5984090.html>* “Ensuring that children do well is the goal of a new Clinton Foundation initiative begun by Hillary Clinton.” *Politico blog: Dylan Byers on Media: “Christie, Clinton top 2016 coverage” <http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2014/10/christie-clinton-top-coverage-197049.html>* “Hillary Clinton and Chris Christie have received more newspaper coverage than any other potential 2016 presidential candidate so far this year, a new Pew report found.” *Washington Post blog: The Fix: “Hillary Clinton’s best campaign surrogate is barely a month old” <http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/10/14/hillary-clintons-best-campaign-surrogate-is-barely-a-month-old/>* “Politicians show off their kids and their families all the time, mostly as a way to telegraph all- American normality. Clinton is doing something different. She is using Charlotte as a kind of mirror to both recognize her own privilege and argue against it.” *Wall Street Journal blog: Washington Wire: “Hillary Clinton: Putin Must Be Kept Contained” <http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2014/10/14/hillary-clinton-putin-must-be-kept-contained/>* “In a speech Monday night in Las Vegas, Mrs. Clinton depicted Russian President Vladimir Putin as a mortal threat to sovereign European countries and U.S. interests. She called for a sustained commitment to keep him contained.” *Washington Post blog: All Opinions Are Local: “Tim Kaine probably is at the top of everyone’s VP list” <http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/all-opinions-are-local/wp/2014/10/14/tim-kaine-probably-is-at-the-top-of-everyones-vp-list/>* “The political bottom line: Kaine’s the right balance for her [Sec. Clinton] should she win the 2016 presidential nomination.” *Yahoo: “In Iowa, Ready for Hillary builds a list and hopes for the best” <http://news.yahoo.com/hillary-clinton-s-list-builders-can-t-fix-all-that-went-wrong-in-2008-221008821.html>* “So why is Ready for Hillary hard at work in Iowa — and so far in advance of the caucuses — if Clinton did so well here in 2008? There are a few reasons, her supporters say.” *Associated Press: “Arkansas Democrats calling, again, on Bill Clinton” <http://bigstory.ap.org/article/04c9a6113f8f475294a425f34245815c/arkansas-democrats-calling-again-bill-clinton>* “Democrats announced Tuesday that former President Bill Clinton will headline rallies this weekend in several Arkansas cities. Most of his stops will be in the 4th District, where one of his former Cabinet officials is running for Congress.” *Articles:* *Huffington Post opinion: Peter D. Rosenstein: “Hillary Clinton is Right; Every Child must be Considered 'Too Small to Fail'” <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-d-rosenstein/hillary-clinton-is-right_b_5984090.html>* By Peter D. Rosenstein October 14, 2014, 1:15 p.m. EDT In a recent Washington Post article it was reported that the federal Healthy Start program was changing and becoming more of a competitive grant program. That would be totally counter-productive to the stated goals of the program. Rather than cutting it this program should be expanded to include even more children and focus on them from birth to five. According to the Health Resources and Services Administration's (HRSA) website "The Healthy Start program works to prevent infant mortality in 87 communities with infant mortality rates at least 1.5 times the national average and high rates of low birth weight, preterm birth, maternal mortality and maternal morbidity (serious medical conditions resulting from or aggravated by pregnancy and delivery). Healthy Start communities are some of our nation's poorest and Healthy Start families frequently struggle to meet their most basic needs. Healthy Start reaches out to pregnant women and new mothers and connects them with the health care and other resources they need to nurture their children." The benefits of this program have been seen in the District of Columbia, a city of both rich and poor. There are parents who can afford the best for their children and don't need help and parents who desperately need help so their children can grow up healthy with the opportunity to reach their full potential. Both sets of parents want the best for their children but one group either doesn't have the knowledge or the resources, or both, to do what is needed. The Healthy Start program is making a difference. The Mayor of the D.C. recently announced the District's partnership in a Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) program called Stronger2gether. It is a public-private partnership with over 40 CGI partners working to improve maternal and child-health outcomes. According to the Mayor "Stronger2gether is working to reduce infant mortality utilizing innovative analytics, best clinical practices and the mobilization of community partners. The idea is to create a culture of health and help babies get to their first birthday healthy and ready to thrive." One must question why when CGI and its 40 partners recognize the importance of such a program the federal government is cutting back theirs. Our priorities as a nation must include a focus on children and their quality of life from birth to age five. We need to not only keep children alive but ensure that with a combination of nature and nurture they thrive. Ensuring that children do well is the goal of a new Clinton Foundation initiative begun by Hillary Clinton. The foundation in partnership with Next Generation began a project called Too Small to Fail. Its stated goal is, "to help parents, caregivers, communities and businesses take meaningful, evidence-based actions that will improve the health and well-being of America's youngest children, age zero to five, and prepare them to succeed in the 21st century." According to its materials the Too Small to Fail project, which builds on the work for children that has been the hallmark of Hillary Clinton's career, it is based on the fact that, "Research on the brain informs us that the most important time in building a person's capacity to learn and understand is between the ages of zero to five. That is when with appropriate stimulation a child's brain grows the fastest and synapses connect. It is the time when every sound, every sight, every touch, and every spoken word get gathered together and filed away to be referenced and built upon with every interaction as the brain develops. It is during these first few years of life that we learn language, important social and emotional skills, critical thinking, and how to focus on tasks at hand." If we strengthen our focus on infants and young children we will accomplish what has been the elusive holy grail of the education system; doing away with the achievement gap. We can ensure every child comes to school equally ready to learn. While Too Small to Fail is developing a public action campaign and testing it out in a number of communities, others need not wait to adopt this idea. One option is to push for expanding Healthy Start. We should provide for each child age zero to five who doesn't have someone at home who can do it; a mentor who will talk to, read to, sing to, and play music for them. We need to model this program on the idea some attribute to an old African proverb, and which Hillary used as the title for her book, 'It Takes a Village'. We must involve the whole community, including the faith community, so that each child has at least one person able to commit the quality time it will take to make a difference in their lives from zero to five. We must insist that government not shirk what should be its responsibility and provide the funding for our children's future when others either can't or won't. *Politico blog: Dylan Byers on Media: “Christie, Clinton top 2016 coverage” <http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2014/10/christie-clinton-top-coverage-197049.html>* By Hadas Gold October 14, 2014, 11:11 a.m. EDT Hillary Clinton and Chris Christie have received more newspaper coverage than any other potential 2016 presidential candidate so far this year, a new Pew report found. In 15 top U.S. newspapers from Jan. 1 to Sept. 27, 2014, the New Jersey governor and former Secretary of State were each the subject of 82 stories focused on the 2016 campaign. On the Republican side, Mitt Romney came in second for coverage with 74 stories. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is a trailing second for Democrats, with just 22 stories. Overall, Pew found that more stories focused on potential Republican candidates than Democratic ones, 202 to 115 stories respectively. And, Pew found that there's more coverage two years before the 2016 election as there was two years ahead of the 2012 and 2008 election. In the first nine months of 2014, there have been 541 newspaper stories written about the 2016 presidential campaign compared to 271 in 2010, and 460 in 2006. The 2010 decrease is expected since President Barack Obama did not have a primary challenger. Pew credits the uptick in 2014 and focus on Christie to the "Bridgegate" scandal that dominated media earlier this year. In the same study last year the coverage focused on Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Christie, while Clinton and Vice President Joe Biden dominated on the Democratic side. *Washington Post blog: The Fix: “Hillary Clinton’s best campaign surrogate is barely a month old” <http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/10/14/hillary-clintons-best-campaign-surrogate-is-barely-a-month-old/>* By Nia-Malika Henderson October 14, 2014, 12:06 p.m. EDT The prospect of Grandmother Hillary Clinton offered so many opportunities for political reporters and pundits to chew over so very many things. How would Clinton weigh being a grandmother against being president? Could she in fact do both, or would the pull of knitting booties just be too strong? Would the whole experience and the grandbaby anecdotes "humanize her"? What would be the most politically beneficial name? If she had a girl, what would that mean? And then there was that question about what little Charlotte would call her grandmother. Nana Secretary was one guess, with a request for readers to offer more suggestions. (How about let's not and say we did?) Just in case you are wondering: Aides to Hillary Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea Clinton, declined to answer what Charlotte will call her maternal grandmother. And three people close to Hillary Clinton said they couldn't pry an answer out of her when they asked. The overarching question was, as always, how Charlotte would fit into the Clinton narrative. That is to say, how Charlotte/Grandmother Clinton would be received by the public and what all of it had to do with politics. (Let's note here that this question was never, ever, ever, once asked about Grandpa Mitt Romney. Not once.) Based on Clinton's last few post-Charlotte speeches, we now have an answer to a question that probably should not even have been asked. Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky, the closest thing we Americans have to a royal baby, is the poster infant for girl power and for economic populism. At a time when high profile politicians tend to steer clear of the "regular person" anecdotes (remember what happened to Al Gore?), Charlotte is the anecdote that keeps on giving. Just five days after she was born, Clinton was already putting her to work. “I think my granddaughter has just as much God-given potential as a boy who was born in that hospital on the same day,” Clinton said at a women's real estate convention in Miami. “I just believe that. That’s the way I was raised.” Speaking at a rally for Tom Wolf, running for Pennsylvania Governor, Clinton offered Charlotte up as an example of what Elizabeth Warren has said is a system rigged towards the rich. "You should not have to be the grandchild of a president to get a good education, to get good healthcare,” she said. "Let’s make sure we give every child in Pennsylvania the same chance that I’m determined to give my granddaughter.” In some ways, Clinton is assuming the gaze of the American public when she considers her granddaughter. Much the same way people look at say Prince George and wonder about the life of riches he will enjoy, Clinton knows the average American might wonder the same about Charlotte and then perhaps wonder about fairness and what exactly elite, wealthy Americans like her know about it. Politicians show off their kids and their families all the time, mostly as a way to telegraph all- American normality. Clinton is doing something different. She is using Charlotte as a kind of mirror to both recognize her own privilege and argue against it. *Wall Street Journal blog: Washington Wire: “Hillary Clinton: Putin Must Be Kept Contained” <http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2014/10/14/hillary-clinton-putin-must-be-kept-contained/>* By Peter Nicholas October 14, 2014, 7:47 a.m. EDT As a newly minted secretary of state, Hillary Clinton seemed convinced that she could bring about a thaw in America’s chilly relationship with Russia. That heady period in 2009 is long gone. In a speech Monday night in Las Vegas, Mrs. Clinton depicted Russian President Vladimir Putin as a mortal threat to sovereign European countries and U.S. interests. She called for a sustained commitment to keep him contained. Mrs. Clinton, a likely presidential candidate in 2016 warned that under Mr. Putin’s leadership Russia is using military power in combination with its leverage as an energy producer to cow European leaders. Some Europeans “just don’t want to confront Putin in any way,” Mrs. Clinton said in a question-and-answer session that was part of a paid speaking engagement sponsored by the UNLV Foundation. “I think that’s a mistake. I think he is at heart a bully and you have to be smart; not confrontational, but you have to stand up and you have to encircle and you have to try to choke off his ability to be so aggressive.” Mrs. Clinton’s appearance had drawn protests from student leaders at the university, who objected to her $225,000 speaking fee. Mrs. Clinton has said she won’t pocket the money but will instead plow it into her family’s charitable foundation. She received a warm reception at the event, held at the Bellagio hotel. The moderator, Las Vegas Sun Publisher Brian Greenspun, gave her a pair of running shoes as a gift. The shoes were a nod to her possible political ambitions — and also a light reference to her appearance in Las Vegas six months ago when someone in the audience hurled a shoe at her. Famously, former President George W. Bush said in 2001 that he had looked Mr. Putin in the eye and found him to be “straight-forward and trustworthy.” Asked how she perceived the Russian leader, Mrs. Clinton said: “Well, I see a very cold-blooded, calculating former KGB agent who is determined to not only enrich himself and his closest colleagues, but also to try to revive Russia’s influence around its border.” The line echoes one used by Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.) who while running for president in the 2008 election said he looked into Mr. Putin’s eyes and saw “three letters: A K, a G, and a B.” Should Mrs. Clinton run for president in 2016, opponents are likely to call attention to the moment in 2009 when Mrs. Clinton and her Russian counterpart pushed a mock “reset” button to symbolize a new era of good will. The rapprochement ultimately fizzled. With Russia’s annexation of Crimea and incursions into Ukraine, U.S.-Russian relations have hit a post-Cold War low point. No more is Mrs. Clinton talking of a reset. She warned of allowing “the borders of Europe — after the bloodiest century in human history – to be rewritten the way Putin is trying to rewrite Ukraine and threatening other places as well. We cannot let that happen because there will be no stop to it.. … Put aside his personality, his agenda is one that threatens American interests and we have to be smart about how we’re going to contest it.” As secretary of state she said she warned Europeans that they needed to “move toward energy independence” so that they wouldn’t be so reliant on Russia. “I think there was an unwillingness on the part of the Europeans to commit to that,” she said. “Each country was pretty much looking out for its own energy needs. Now, of course, they’re scrambling to figure out how to get out from under Russian intimidation using energy as a weapon. And the United States needs to stay deeply involved in working with our allies in Europe – to move them toward more energy independence.” As ever, Mrs. Clinton fielded the inevitable question: Will she run for president? And, as ever, she gave an answer that was noncommittal. Yes, she’s considering it. She wants to find ways to help people, but hasn’t decided whether the presidency or her family foundation is the best vehicle. “As I make my decision, part of what I will be thinking about is, What do I want to do with the next years of my life,” said Mrs. Clinton, who will turn 67 on Oct. 26. “How do I want to spend my time?” *Washington Post blog: All Opinions Are Local: “Tim Kaine probably is at the top of everyone’s VP list” <http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/all-opinions-are-local/wp/2014/10/14/tim-kaine-probably-is-at-the-top-of-everyones-vp-list/>* By Norman Leahy and Paul Goldman October 14, 2014, 10:09 a.m. EDT Is Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) the new Harry Truman? As a senator from Missouri, Truman led a bipartisan congressional effort overseeing World War II operations. This rankled President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration. Not wanting to draw FDR’s ire onto themselves, senior senators gave the job to the backbencher from the “Show-Me” state. But when FDR ran again, bipartisan praise for a job well done led to Truman getting on the party’s national ticket. Seventy years later, a young man who grew up in Missouri seemingly has acquired some of “Give’em Hell Harry’s” moxie. In January, Sen. Kaine co-sponsored legislation challenging President Obama’s professed authority to pursue his Middle East war policy. “It really concerns me that the president would assert he has the ability to do this unilaterally,” Kaine said. The Virginian’s co-sponsor: Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, who lost to Obama in 2008. This meant Kaine, among the president’s earliest backers, had hooked up with the strongest Republican critic of his friend’s Middle East military policy. Media commentators predictably said Kaine and McCain wanted to rein in the president. Their proposed legislation changed the 1973 War Powers Act to give Congress more say — and the president less — in deployment and use of U.S. military force. Kaine said the historic tension between the legislative and executive branches over foreign intervention had always been a legal “obsession.” The Constitution gives Congress sole authority to declare war. But since Truman, every president, including Obama, has maintained that the Constitution gives the commander in chief the power to send military forces into harm’s way without official congressional approval. President George W. Bush, for example, did ask for congressional “authorization” of the Iraq war. But he made clear he didn’t legally need their approval, much less a war declaration. Kaine believes the current constitutional and legal murkiness needs clarification. Yet Congress’s long-standing ambivalence on the scope of presidential war powers reflects military and political reality. History shows that it can be politically risky to vote against a president after the commander in chief has made a case that military action is vital to national security. Sen. Kaine underscored this point by combining his seemingly anti-war measure with strong support for Obama’s actual military policy. The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis is also instructive. President Kennedy followed the basic Kaine-McCain approach. He created a special war group that included congressional leaders, met with them whenever requested, shared secret information, gave them full access to the Pentagon brass and didn’t act until getting their final advice. What happened? Congressional leaders didn’t want to appear weak against communism, perhaps fearing their “secret meeting” recommendations wouldn’t stay secret. Their recommendations surely would have led to a nuclear war. Fortunately, JFK ignored them. Back-channel discussions with the Soviet premier uncovered his similar willingness to stand up to his own nuclear war hawks, saving humanity. In the end, no War Powers Act, however amended, can guarantee the required good judgment. Still, Kaine has a valid point: To help get this good judgment, a more defined and mandatory consultation process would seem to be necessary. Kaine’s self-described “obsession” with the obvious has earned him political plaudits and a Truman-like advantage. Democrats are generally seen as the anti-war party. Then-Sen. Hillary Clinton’s vote to green light the Iraq war is likely the main reason she failed to shut down anti-war underdog Barack Obama’s campaign in 2008 before it became unstoppable. Tim Kaine is uniquely positioned politically: dovish enough for the anti-war left but covered on the right by hooking up with the hawkish McCain. Front-runner Clinton figures to run more hawkish than the dovish Democratic norm. The political bottom line: Kaine’s the right balance for her should she win the 2016 presidential nomination. He created picture-perfect politics from perfunctory policy. Luck? No way. Then-Gov. Kaine made the Veep list in 2008. Right now, he leads the one for 2016. *Yahoo: “In Iowa, Ready for Hillary builds a list and hopes for the best” <http://news.yahoo.com/hillary-clinton-s-list-builders-can-t-fix-all-that-went-wrong-in-2008-221008821.html>* By Jon Ward October 13, 2014, 5:12 a.m. EDT [Subtitle:] It's less glamorous than you might think DES MOINES, Iowa – You get a funny response when you ask Ready for Hillary leaders in Iowa what they’re doing to avoid a repeat of Clinton’s loss in the 2008 caucuses here, where she came in third. Ready for Hillary was built to avoid and correct the mistakes of 2008, right? “You know, I’m kind of confused by that,” said Derek Eadon, who oversees Iowa and the entire Midwest for Ready for Hillary, the group started last year to prepare a campaign in waiting for Clinton. Jerry Crawford, an Iowa-based adviser to the group, was even more blunt. “I think Hillary ran a very good campaign in 2007-2008 in Iowa. The notion that she didn’t … is more urban legend than truth,” Crawford told me. “She was a very good candidate. She turned out more caucusgoers than had any Democratic candidate for president in history.” Only, of course, Barack Obama turned out more people than she did. John Edwards wooed more supporters than Clinton, for that matter. Eadon and Crawford hail from different generations and look back at 2008 from different points of view. Eadon, a 30-year-old Iowa native, worked for Obama in 2008 as a paid campaign organizer in Cedar Rapids. Crawford, 65, is a longtime Clinton loyalist who helped run Clinton’s 2008 campaign in Iowa and is helping Ready for Hillary’s efforts today. But Eadon now says he thinks the Clinton campaign in Iowa was about as good as Obama’s, and that too much retrospective meaning about their operations has been attached to the outcome of the 2008 caucusing. “Because [Clinton] lost they did everything wrong. Because Obama won he did everything right. But I think there were a lot more similarities in the two campaigns,” Eadon said, sitting in a windowless conference room inside an office park near the state Capitol building. So why is Ready for Hillary hard at work in Iowa — and so far in advance of the caucuses — if Clinton did so well here in 2008? There are a few reasons, her supporters say. First, there is the perception among Iowans that Clinton ignored them in 2008 and didn’t want to campaign hard for their votes. And to some extent this is true. She didn’t fully commit to the state until the summer of 2007, after an internal campaign memo was leaked that showed advisers encouraging her to totally skip over the Hawkeye State. So in a way, Ready for Hillary — a national organization — has a very specific job to do in Iowa when it comes to salving hurt feelings and forestalling resentments. Ready for Hillary operatives at the national level have a clear sense of this mission. “You can’t take grass-roots supporters for granted,” said Adam Parkhomenko, the group’s executive director. Second, Obama did a better job than Clinton did of hiring Iowa natives around the state as organizers and of attracting new blood into the caucus process to volunteer and vote. Crawford bristles at the charge that Clinton’s Iowa operation failed here, and points the finger at the national operation, which he said treated Iowans and their unique process with disrespect. “When people say top-down, that’s really a comment about the national campaign staff last time,” he said. “If you’re looking for accuracy, it’s more a comment about them than about the Iowa campaign.” Third, Clinton supporters wanted to try to keep the playing field clear of competitors who could take advantage of a vacuum to develop momentum. They have done this very effectively. And Clinton will need every advantage here in the general election if she is the nominee in 2016. She trailed Republican Mitt Romney in a Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Politics survey of voters released on Saturday. But what is Clinton going to do in 2016 (insert obligatory “if she runs”) that she didn’t do in 2008? “It’s a good question,” Eadon said. If that answer seems puzzlingly noncommittal, it’s probably because Ready for Hillary is doing a lot of the same things that Clinton’s supporters did in 2007 and 2008. They’re just doing it earlier than Clinton or Obama or Edwards did it, by more than a year. They are building a list of supporters for Clinton, which could be sold to an eventual Clinton campaign. Its staffers and volunteers are building a local organization in the hopes that an eventual national Clinton campaign team will come along and pick up their work. The work is not that complicated and it also cannot address the biggest problems of the 2008 campaign, which involved high-level strategic decisions, such as choosing not to make Clinton available to the local press in Iowa, and not prioritizing repeated trips to the hinterlands of Iowa’s many small towns. Furthermore, much of the corrective work being done by Ready for Hillary is outside of Iowa. Clinton was plenty organized in Iowa in 2008, but she wasn’t able to catch up to Obama because he out-prepared and out-organized her in many of the subsequent primary and caucus states. “A lot of states where there were no volunteer organizations during the 2008 campaign, we wanted to make sure that — should she run and she goes to Minnesota or Maine or Utah — those people are ready to go,” Parkhomenko said. Ready for Hillary’s list-building will also give Clinton something like the advantage that Obama, as an incumbent president, had in 2012. He set up an operation to maintain a list of supporters through Organizing for America after taking office, which kept its hands on his 13 million-member email list, and kept many of those supporters engaged and in touch. Most importantly, they ensured that Obama had the most current contact information for these supporters, in an age when people change cell phone numbers and email addresses with high frequency. The 2008 Clinton campaign's list was at about 3 million email addresses at its height, and has now shrunk to about 1 million active names, said a source familiar with the list. Ready for Hillary, meanwhile, has an up-to-date list of nearly 3 million names, ready to hand over to a Clinton campaign. “We’ve surpassed where she ended her campaign in 2008,” Parkhomenko said. “What that does is, she starts off where she left off. For a nonincumbent, that is just a remarkable place to begin.” Eadon and his deputy, Gracie Brandsgard, have full-time organizing counterparts in the northeast, working in New Hampshire; in the South, based at the group’s Northern Virginia headquarters, and active in South Carolina and North Carolina; and out west, based in California. In the end, however, the value and impact of any work done now will be determined by the actions of a formal national organization that does not yet exist. One Clinton insider who has worked in Iowa politics for a long time says getting her national team to value the hard work of early primary state blocking and tackling and of empowering grass-roots volunteers rather than taking them for granted is “a done deal.” “Is she going to put together an A team nationally? Yes, she never makes a mistake twice,” the insider said. In Iowa, where 239,000 Democrats set a record for caucus participation in 2008, the work of building a list is as much about human interaction with key activists as it is about data wizardry. There are only two Ready for Hillary staffers in Iowa: Eadon and Brandsgard. They are in charge of the entire Midwest. Their headquarters is a single open room on the ground floor of an office building two blocks from the intersection where Obama held his last rally of the 2012 campaign. They share space with employees of Eadon’s consulting firm, Blueprint Strategies, and of NextGen Climate, the climate change group founded by billionaire Tom Steyer. The Democratic Party’s data capabilities are formidable. But they have been so worshipped in the press that the perception is they have not just the name of every voter but also their favorite toothpaste. Ready for Hillary, however, is building a list of supporters “from scratch,” Eadon said. It’s a little bit of an exaggeration. But not entirely. Democrats have an impressive array of voter information at their fingertips dating back several election cycles. And late in the fall of 2013, Ready for Hillary bought the 50-state voter file through NGP VAN, the company that coordinates the building of the Democratic Party's voter file. In January, it bought a list of all Hillary Clinton’s 2008 supporters and emailed them, offering a free bumper sticker in exchange for a signup with the group. Since then, Ready for Hillary has continued to sign people up through its website, through social media, and by showing up at fairs and community events. It has also built up a robust direct mail operation. But in Iowa, after those initial contacts, Eadon and Brandsgard have not been sitting at their desks dialing phone numbers for the last six months. Instead they hit the road to meet people who have already signed up. A common misperception is that list-building is just a one and done activity: get the name, get the person's info, add it to the list, and move on to the next one. This is a static view of organizing that the Republican Party is still trying to overcome in many quarters. The Democratic view is kinetic. Eadon and Brandsgard did events in the 12 biggest counties in Iowa early in the year. There they met with Clinton’s most gung-ho supporters, and asked them to start building local support networks for Clinton and to start recruiting people to sign up with Ready for Hillary through their neighborhoods and their social networks. They also sent volunteers to county conventions in 84 of Iowa’s 99 counties in March. But if that was the end of the engagement, RFH might have lost contact with the supporters and allowed their enthusiasm to lapse. And so the midterm elections have served as an important galvanizing agent for Ready for Hillary. The group has directed members to the state party in Iowa and helped turn them out to knock on doors and make phone calls for Democratic candidates on the ballot this fall. It has curried favor with the grass roots and establishment at the same time, while also keeping these Clinton fans engaged in the political process, and in touch with her proto-campaign in waiting. The national group continued this virtuous cycle in the late summer and early fall, exchanging portions of its lists with 14 different campaigns across the country. The campaigns, which were not disclosed, got a list of active volunteers eager to help them campaign. And Ready for Hillary got a batch of names ripe for targeting over email. Ready for Hillary has also dispatched staff from its offices in the Washington area to 14 states across the country, including Iowa, to help the last-ditch effort to keep the Senate. Iowa’s Senate race between Republican Joni Ernst and Democrat Bruce Braley is one of the closest in the nation. The plan was always for RFH to dissolve after Clinton makes a decision in the months immediately following the midterms. Parkhomenko said that on the day Clinton announces, the group plans to send an email to its list, directing people to Clinton’s campaign website. It will check to see who clicked the link in their email and visited Clinton’s website, and follow up a few times with those who didn’t. The final step would be to work with a third party vendor to compare Ready for Hillary’s list with the Clinton campaign’s list, to see which supporters it doesn't have. The organizations would then do an even swap, with the Clinton campaign getting names and emails it doesn't already have, and Ready for Hillary getting the same from the campaign in exchange. At that point, Ready for Hillary’s work will be done. Iit will be up to Clinton’s people to make sure they don’t waste it. *Associated Press: “Arkansas Democrats calling, again, on Bill Clinton” <http://bigstory.ap.org/article/04c9a6113f8f475294a425f34245815c/arkansas-democrats-calling-again-bill-clinton>* By Andrew DeMillo October 14, 2014, 12:25 p.m. EDT Arkansas Democrats are again enlisting their favorite political son as they try to fend off a Republican takeover of the state's top offices in November. Democrats announced Tuesday that former President Bill Clinton will headline rallies this weekend in several Arkansas cities. Most of his stops will be in the 4th District, where one of his former Cabinet officials is running for Congress. The visits come only a week after the former Arkansas governor led rallies in central and northern Arkansas. At those events, Clinton urged voters to not use the November election as a protest vote against President Barack Obama. Early voting beginsMonday. Clinton will visit Hot Springs on Friday; Hope, where he was born, on Saturday; and North Little Rock, Pine Bluff and Forrest City on Sunday.