DES MOINES: Since her school days, Hillary Clinton has chased success, earning honors and accolades that could fill a bookcase. The ambitious Midwesterner has managed it all in her lengthy career -- all except the presidency, her decades-long obsession.
Clinton might have been forgiven for expecting a glide path to her party's nomination in 2016, after losing out to Barack Obama eight years earlier.
She and husband Bill Clinton have not just endured but suffered and thrived in symbiotic tandem under the political spotlight since 1977, the year before Bill's election as governor of Arkansas.
Now she is in the fight of her life against chief rival Bernie Sanders, who is seeking to imitate Obama and snatch victory from Clinton's grasp in Iowa, the state that votes first in the presidential nomination battle.
Clinton has changed tack for this new campaign. She promotes her status as a new grandmother, but also as the torchbearer of America's women, a commitment that dates back to her early years as a lawyer and child advocate.
Embracing her reputation as a "fighter," Clinton is keen to shed the has-been label and emerge as the nation's first female president.
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