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She raised more than $3 million in just the first few weeks of cash collection, rang up more than 796,000 hits on You Tube for her pronouncement that “there is nobody in this country who got rich on his own”, and is regularly drawing large number of volunteers to her campaign headquarters almost a year before the 2012 election.
Even veteran Democratic strategists have struggled to explain the Warren phenomenon within the liberal base of the party. But over the weekend, Rebecca Traister — in the New York Times magazine — offered the best explanation we’ve read about why Warren has taken off so high, so fast.
“Even though she’s running for the Senate and not for the presidency, the early devotion to Warren recalls the ardor once felt by many for Obama,” wrote Traister, adding:
“Embracing Warren as the next ‘one’ is, in part, a way of getting over Obama; she provides an optimistic distraction from the fact that under our current president, too little has changed, for reasons having to do both with the limitations of the political system and the limitations of the man. She makes people forget that estimations of him were too overheated, trust in his powers too fervid.”
Warren is to the — for lack of a better word — “professional left” what they thought (and hoped) Obama would be when he was elected, a true believer not willing to compromise on core principles of the party.
I'd love to see an election between her, and a tax-the-poor, cut-taxes-on-the-rich Republican. She'd win in a landslide in just about any district in this country.
I'd love to see an election between her, and a tax-the-poor, cut-taxes-on-the-rich Republican. She'd win in a landslide in just about any district in this country.
Well I am looking forward to her winning in Mass. first. She has an edge to her unlike Obama. She won't capitulate.
All politics are local. Liberals can drool all they want over her during the election season, but if she wins a seat in the Senate, she'll be but one of 535 lawmakers, and a junior one at that (which garners no power whatsoever).
All politics are local. Liberals can drool all they want over her during the election season, but if she wins a seat in the Senate, she'll be but one of 535 lawmakers, and a junior one at that (which garners no power whatsoever).
Well Elizabeth for senate in 2012 would be great, but Elizabeth for 2016 would be wonderful.
There is a big reason why Ted Kennedy's seat went to a more Conservative person, than Ted ever was.
There is a big reason, many State legislatures that had been Progressive for 50 years, turned to a more Conservative stance in 2010.
There is a big reason the Progressives did not remain in power in the House and no longer have a Super majority in the Senate.
There is a big reason there is such a great divide, that has been created in the last 3 years in this nation, not seen since the Civil War.
People are waking up in the internet age. The FCC can no longer regulate what we hear and see with our own eyes & ears, but they are trying to grab the world wide web, aren't they. National media has become nothing but political propaganda.
i don't see her as having much in common with Obama. Obama is a corporate liberal who is trying to figure out how to appease Republicans. Warren is a populist conservative who is trying to figure out how to win as a Democrat.
i would equate Warren to the left's version of Ron Paul. She has been dead-on about many things, and she has simple, clear-cut solutions to our financial problems. The challenge is to package and disseminate those solutions in a way that's politically acceptable to voters.
She wants to "level the playing field" between individuals and corporations, and the neocons will definitely try and paint that as being "socialist."
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