Clinton Promotes Economic Changes

In the article, "Clinton Floats Tax-code Changes as she Campaigns in New Hampshire" (link to article) it states that while Hillary Clinton has been campaigning in New Hampshire this last week, she has been promoting her willingness to make changes to the U.S. tax code in order to reward companies that produce goods and services instead of trading. At one of the places she visited she even said, "I want to do everything I can to support goods and real services and take a good look at what is now being done in the trading world." In addition to changes in the tax code, Clinton has been talking about several other economic goals such as making college more affordable and dealing with income inequality.

From how Clinton has been campaigning so far, it looks like her campaign will be very focused on economic changes that she plans to make. Many of the plans she has mentioned so far are targeting middle class  individuals since her efforts seem to be focused on changing  the tax codes to benefit the less wealthy and make education more affordable. I definitely think that the tax codes need to be changed so that the wealthy can't go through loopholes in order to pay less than middle class Americans, but I'm not quite sure how it should be done. I think that Clinton's economic goal could be good as long as the plan is implemented correctly. It will be interesting to see how the other presidential candidates' economic goals compare to Clinton's.

Democrats Ready to Support Clinton

In the article, "Poll: Most Democrats Are Ready For Hillary" (link to article) it expalins that a recent poll indicates that 57 percent of Democrats and independents who lean towards the Democratic party are in favor of Hillary Clinton as a 2016 presidential candidate. Also, 80 percent of Democrats believe that Hillary Clinton will win the Democratic nomination and 77 percent think that she will win the presidency. Hillary Clinton's popularity among the Democrats this year is much different from Barack Obama's back in 2007, for a poll from that time found that only 20 percent of Democrats supported the current president while he was campaigning.

While I am not completely sure if I would be willing to support Hillary Clinton for president in 2016, this poll is indicating that Clinton has a pretty good shot of at least getting the Democratic nomination. I think that if only 20 percent of Democrats in 2007 supported Barack Obama, and he became president, Clinton definitely has a good shot. However, this poll only shows the amount of support from the Democratic party. I am sure that if someone was to poll Republicans or both Republicans and Democrats at the same time, the number of supporters for Hillary Clinton would be much less. It will be interesting to see how these numbers change throughout the duration of her campaign.