{"id":5648,"date":"2011-08-20T01:07:40","date_gmt":"2011-08-20T08:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5648"},"modified":"2011-08-20T14:14:03","modified_gmt":"2011-08-20T21:14:03","slug":"elizabeth-warren-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/20\/elizabeth-warren-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Warren 2012!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conventional wisdom dictates that Elizabeth Warren cannot beat Rick Scott (R-MA).\u00a0 Conventional wisdom is wrong.\u00a0 Conventional wisdom also dictated that Jeff Merkley (D-OR) could not beat incumbent Gordon Smith.\u00a0 We demonstrated that Gordon Smith,Scott Brown, was a false moderate.\u00a0 Smith was moderate whenever we didn\u2019t need him.\u00a0 If the issue was decided, one way or the other, and his vote did not matter, he voted with Democrats.\u00a0 Whenever it mattered, he always lined up and goose-stepped with the Republican regime.\u00a0 If MA progressives become energized for Warren, as we did for Merkley, she can win.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"20elizabeth_warren2012\"On Thursday, Elizabeth Warren announced that she\u2019s starting an exploratory committee for a potential U.S. Senate run in Massachusetts. The news doesn\u2019t come as much of a surprise. The Harvard Law professor, who recently stepped down<\/a> from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau she originated, has been the subject of Senatorial speculation for months, if not longer. She recently hinted of her candidacy on a progressive Massachusetts blog<\/a> and set off on a listening tour<\/a> around the Bay State this week.<\/p>\n

Some have called the move a trap<\/a>. Her would-be Republican opponent\u2019s popularity is pretty remarkable<\/a>, even in polls run by Democrats. In the seat long held by Democratic lion Ted Kennedy, Sen. Scott Brown has played the Massachusetts version of a conservative fairly well, bucking his party just enough to come off as independent minded. And her Democratic challengers hardly make her a slam dunk: While she gets the best margin in a head-to-head poll pitting Democrats<\/a> against Brown, her hardly impressive 28 percent (compared with Brown\u2019s 53 percent) is not that much higher than City Year co-founder Alan Khazei\u2019s 24 percent or Newton Mayor Setti Warren\u2019s 21 percent.<\/p>\n

But though it\u2019s hardly guaranteed she will win the Democratic nomination\u2014much less beat Brown\u2014I think she stands a pretty good chance. Warren has become a darling of the left<\/a>, so much so that they nearly made her appointment to head the agency she dreamed up a litmus test<\/a> for President Obama\u2019s progressive bona fides.<\/p>\n

Ironically, Warren has something Brown now doesn\u2019t, at least to the same extent: Passion from her followers\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Washington Post<\/a>><\/p>\n

I still would rather see Warren replace Timmy the Tool, but this is the next best thing.\u00a0 Long term, she has the potential to become America\u2019s first woman President.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Conventional wisdom dictates that Elizabeth Warren cannot beat Rick Scott (R-MA).\u00a0 Conventional wisdom is wrong.\u00a0 Conventional wisdom also dictated that Jeff Merkley (D-OR) could not beat incumbent Gordon Smith.\u00a0 We demonstrated that Gordon Smith,Scott Brown, was a false moderate.\u00a0 Smith was moderate whenever we didn\u2019t need him.\u00a0 If the issue was decided, one way or […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}