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Democratic · Former Secretary of State · New York · Spectrum score -44

Former office ·

Hillary Clinton is Former Secretary of State in New York. Political positions and ideology score -44 (Left). The cable fight is emails.

College
Wellesley College, B.A. 1969 · Yale Law School, J.D. 1973
Spouse
Bill Clinton (m. 1975)
Children
One — Chelsea
Résumé
  • U.S. Secretary of State · 2009–2013
  • U.S. Senator · New York · 2001–2009
  • First Lady of the United States · 1993–2001
Net worth
$120M
Salary
—

Out of office

Before office
$1.0M
2026 raised
—
Years in office
47

Where Hillary stands on the spectrum

Hillary Clinton scores -44 on Spectrum’s left–right line (left), left of center on the economy and progressive on social issues. The number is modeled from twelve issue positions and the public record — not a poll and not a party label.

Composite -44 · Left · economic -52 · social -45 · authoritarian -19

Confidence 82. How we calculate scores →

Background & record

The cable fight is emails. The file is a household that professionalized access: six-figure speeches, a foundation that blurred aid and influence, and a 2016 campaign that treated the donor class as a constituency. You do not have to buy the darker theories to read the invoices.

Finances

Modeled midpoints from public disclosures — not an audit of any household.

Net worth

$120M

+11900% since taking office

Published household estimate, 2025

Before office$1.0M
Now$120M

The jump is speeches (Goldman, etc.), books, and the Clinton Foundation orbit — not a Senate salary.

Money in · 2026 cycle

Raised
$0
Cash on hand
$0

Top industries

  • Speeches
  • Publishing
  • Foundation donors

Stock holdings

Index / retirement funds

Speeches and books. The foundation was the access story. The brokerage is funds.

Published household, 2025 · STOCK Act ranges, not an audit

  • VTI

    Vanguard Total Stock Market

    Joint

    $20.0M–$60.0M

  • VXUS

    Vanguard Total International

    Joint

    $6.0M–$18.0M

Sum of ranges $26.0M–$78.0M · midpoint $52.0M

X sentiment

Last 7 days

Odds

Polymarket · Kalshi

Implied probability from open contracts. Real money, not a poll. Updates while you sit here.

Live wire

Live · checked just now

New articles land here as they publish. Checking about every 12 seconds.

Conflicts

  • Paid Wall Street speeches while running a 2016 economic brief against Wall Street.
  • Clinton Foundation donor states and later State Department access — the 2016 argument that never got a clean autopsy.

Issue detail

−100 left pole · +100 right pole

Economic
-52
Social
-45
Authoritarian
-19
Confidence
82
  • Taxes & spending-50

    Higher taxes on high earners, larger public budget

  • Health care-60

    Public or single-payer coverage as a right

  • Climate & energy-56

    Aggressive climate rules and fossil-fuel phase-down

  • Business regulation-48

    Stronger antitrust, labor, and consumer rules

  • Labor & wages-46

    Unions, higher minimum wage, worker power

  • Immigration-44

    A broader legal path, less interior enforcement

  • Abortion-72

    Legal access, opposed to bans

  • Guns-54

    Licensing, assault-weapon limits, red-flag laws

  • Crime & policing-18

    Reform, diversion, less incarceration

  • Schools & speech-48

    Public-school investment, DEI frameworks

  • Defense & alliances+2

    Hard power, high defense spending, deterrence

  • Civil liberties-28

    Privacy, speech, limits on surveillance and bans

No roll-call first dimension on file — issues only.

Compass

Auth · leftAuth · rightLib · leftLib · rightAuthoritarianLibertarianEconomic leftEconomic right

Sources

  • Senate record
  • 2016 platform
  • Wealth and fundraising are modeled midpoints from public disclosures — not an audit.
  • College, family, and résumé are public-record facts, not a campaign bio.

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Updated August 2026.