Hillary Rodham Clinton took her turn Friday in the Bay Area's continuing march of presidential candidates, pitching to two key groups she's depending on for support: Progressive women and Democratic technology leaders.

Surrounded in San Francisco by an enthusiastic crowd of 1,000, mostly women who paid $250 or more for a boxed lunch, Clinton declared she is ``not running as a woman candidate. I'm running because I think I'm the best person to hit the ground running.''

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