Looks to me like Hillary Clinton's campaign is shaping up to

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57. I think it's a great move.

It suggests strongly that she's been listening to Elizabeth Warren, AND to the growing clamoring among an increasingly loud and progressive-leaning America, and she's been taking notes. I was hoping this would happen. HRC is NOT dumb. She not only can listen and learn from what the people want, she can evolve her views accordingly to reflect that, and then hopefully use her considerable clout (and maybe a new job next year) to act on it.

I look at what she did to win over the State of New York. THAT was no easy task, either, especially from someone who was widely perceived, and cynically, as an outsider. She went all over the state on a listening tour. And evidently, she made a good impression because she beat the odds and her GOP opponent the first time, and then did it again six years later. Even those who were on the fence about her wound up with little to complain about, regarding the job she did.

This woman is smart, and she's no dingdong. I HOPE she's been taking note of Elizabeth Warren's message. If Hillary is indeed our standard-bearer next year, she'd be a GREAT one to take that message and run with it, and act on it. And I think she's smart enough to notice which way the wind is blowing, and which way America is trending. A smart leader (or would-be leader) would do exactly that - take note of which way the people are leaning, and respond accordingly. Maybe the people are leading here. That's my hope.

That IS my hope. That she's going to turn out NOT to disappoint those of us still on the fence (as many are, here, who've voiced legitimate concerns). I'm not on the fence about her. And I sure don't want to be disappointed, either. I think she has it within her to evolve. We've seen MULTIPLE politicians evolve on controversial issues, including our current POTUS, on issues like marriage equality, and more. I think what we all want is leadership that recognizes changing times AND that those changes are for the better for this country. I think we all want leadership that doesn't insist on standing in the way of the march of time that naturally brings progress, inevitable social change, and modernization - but, instead, acknowledges it, and works WITH it. I think Hillary Clinton is among the latter.