being seen as a team player. she still does want to be associate d with obama to a certain extent. it s been a mutually beneficial relationship to them. president obama was a able to elevate her to a secretary of state role where her numbers were allowed to go higher than they d ever been in the past. and her being a loyal secretary of state really didn t even have a lot of the drama that many people were expecting when that, quote unquote, team of rivals started in 2009. so that kind of potentially benefits them. and one important model to look at is the reagan/george h.w. bush model, folks are hoping that you get a third term. reagan had his term and h.w. bush were able to get another one for the republican party. reagan and bush were very different people. they represented different states and different people in