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Hillary steps on the gas
In the last few days, Hillary Clinton has been, well, everywhere. On Saturday, she addressed the pro-gay-rights Human Rights Campaign, picked up the endorsement of the National Education Association, and appeared on "Saturday Night Live." On Monday, she sat down with NBC's Savannah Guthrie in New Hampshire and unveiled her gun-control proposals. Today, she campaigns in Iowa. It's remarkable to contrast all of this Clinton activity -- coming as Joe Biden still mulls a presidential bid and as she trails in New Hampshire (but leads in Iowa and elsewhere) -- with her campaign pace in the spring and early summer, when she was going about 5 mph. Now she's hitting 70 mph and picking up speed. Clinton's poll position hasn't improved in the early states (see our NBC/WSJ/Marist polls from the weekend), but she is now running with a different sense of urgency. As Democratic pollster Peter Hart said of Clinton on "Meet the Press" back in August, "She's a terrible frontrunner, but she's a marvelous candidate when she gets into the middle of the race."
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