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Could Elizabeth Warren become the go-to Democrat this election cycle?
Washington Post ^ | Jun 25, 2014 | Nia-Malika Henderson

Posted on 06/28/2014 5:56:58 PM PDT by Second Amendment First

How well will a Massachusetts liberal fit in among Southern blue-collar Democrats? That question will be answered over the next couple of weeks, when Elizabeth Warren goes to West Virginia to stump for Natalie Tennant, who is seeking to replace retiring Sen. Jay Rockefeller in a hotly contested race in coal country against Republican Rep. Shelley Moore Capito.

On July 14, Warren will head to the Eastern Panhandle, as Tennant, who is currently secretary of state, rolls out her education plan. Warren also plans to appear in Kentucky later this month with Alison Lundergan Grimes, the Democratic nominee for Senate.

West Virginia has been trending red, breaking from its Democratic roots. In 2012 President Obama lost all 55 counties, the first time a Democratic presidential candidate was completely shut out in West Virginia. Capito is the heavy favorite to win, and if she does, it would be the first time since 1956 that the state has picked a Republican to fill a Senate seat.

For Warren, being in coal country is a test of whether she can boost the Democratic ticket and whether she can find an audience among the kind of Democrats that supported Bill and Hillary Clinton. In 2008, Clinton scored her biggest presidential primary win in West Virginia over then-Sen. Barack Obama, and Bill Clinton won Kentucky and West Virginia both times he ran for president. More recently, Bill Clinton stumped for Grimes, who is up against Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell (R).

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But coal will no doubt be the elephant in the room in West Virginia and Kentucky, given that Warren supports Obama’s move to curb carbon emissions.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: elizabethwarren; fauxcahontas; fauxohontas; lieawatha; massachusetts; warren
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To: Second Amendment First

Well, she probably has the Redskin’s votes.


21 posted on 06/28/2014 6:13:10 PM PDT by OldSmaj (I am an avowed enemy of islam and obama is a damned fool and traitor. Questions?)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Why does everyone seem to have the hots for this broad?

I'm in MA and will say that she is a nobody who came out of nowhere (well, Harvard, but who thinks that's special?). Warren has been a big deal ever since she ran against Scott Brown (who was also a nobody). It's kind of strange.

I am convinced that this means she is a total slave to the New World Order ideology. She is willing to do anything. That's just my suspicion, but she is clearly being put forward as an "obvious" person to put into power. This was done for Obama to, in the early days. Some nobody in Chicago was "obviously" going to be president.And now he is.

I see it as an indication that the Powers That Be have faith that the politician in question would unquestionably put Americans in concentration camps, if told to do so.

Warren is dangerous.

22 posted on 06/28/2014 6:13:44 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("Harvey Dent, can we trust him?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBsdV--kLoQ)
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To: madprof98

Oklahoma Redskin.


23 posted on 06/28/2014 6:13:58 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Fauxcahontas doesn’t have Hillary’s baggage or health problems. But she’s still a doctrinaire northeastern Kennedy liberal (”why does anyone `neeeeed’ an assault weapon!!?) so the question is still, how well will Warren play in Peoria?

Hmmm...

“Lizzie Warren took an axe,
“And gave our Hillary forty whacks.
“And when she saw what she had done,
“Gave Slick Willie forty-one.

;^)


24 posted on 06/28/2014 6:15:12 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: Second Amendment First

Nah, Hitlery wouldn’t like it.


25 posted on 06/28/2014 6:16:12 PM PDT by Vinylly (?%)
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To: Second Amendment First

Go to by whom?


26 posted on 06/28/2014 6:17:21 PM PDT by SkyDancer (If you don't read the newspapers you are uninformed. If you do read newspapers you are misinformed)
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To: GeronL

Of course the Dems want a woman in the White House. Look at the buildup for Hillary the past few years. The Democrats get the female vote almost every election cycle and it makes political sense to get a woman as their nominee. In 2008 they nominated the first black to run for president. In 2016 they want to nominate a woman. In 2020 they will nominate a latino. The Democrats are not a party of ideas. They practice identification politics and they win based on coalitions, scaremongering, and bloodying up their opponents.


27 posted on 06/28/2014 6:18:49 PM PDT by dowcaet
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To: Second Amendment First

28 posted on 06/28/2014 6:20:08 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: sitetest

This is my fear. Worse than Hitlary, as bad as the anti-Christ.

________________

She is a new face and just that makes the liar electable. She needs to be torpedoed.


29 posted on 06/28/2014 6:22:05 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: digger48

Do you have any idea how many stupid women will make a presidential decision based on genitalia?


30 posted on 06/28/2014 6:24:26 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: Second Amendment First

Warren is probably more of a hard core one-world commie than Hillary.

Hillary is more of a shyster and scam artist who has learned that a way to gain money and power is to use the mindless lefties.

I’ve always thought that the Clintons were lefties out of convenience and greed rather than conviction. They both can (and have been) be bought off in various ways - Bill more so than Hillary.

But Warren comes across as someone as dangerous as Obama.

She, like Obama, seems to actually believe the simplistic leftist drivel that she spouts.


31 posted on 06/28/2014 6:26:24 PM PDT by Iron Munro (The Obamas Black skin has morphed into Teflon thanks to the Obama Media)
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To: Second Amendment First

She tells the base everything it wants to hear and nothing it doesn’t. So yes.


32 posted on 06/28/2014 6:33:13 PM PDT by RichInOC (Palin 2016: The Perfect Storm.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“What has she ever done?”
She’s a fraud, democrats love frauds.


33 posted on 06/28/2014 6:40:56 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: Second Amendment First

Interesting how a notion could be both absolutely hilarious and absolutely terrifying at the same time.


34 posted on 06/28/2014 6:43:35 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: mowowie

Death Rattles


35 posted on 06/28/2014 6:44:03 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Second Amendment First

Please, no.


36 posted on 06/28/2014 6:44:34 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: GeronL
So the Dems have decided that their next nominee must be a woman?

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I would say that is correct.

37 posted on 06/28/2014 6:46:08 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Bratch

Senator Warren has an excellent shot at being the Dem nominee. Therefore, has very good chance of being our next president.


38 posted on 06/28/2014 6:47:18 PM PDT by cornfedcowboy
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To: Second Amendment First

We must remember that Senator Warren (UGH) is the popularizer of the “You didn’t build that” meme that 2012 Obama also adopted! On that basis alone she is obvious Democrat Presidential materiel! The media will have no problem in full support if Hillary keeps with the foot-in-mouth disease.


39 posted on 06/28/2014 6:48:23 PM PDT by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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To: GeronL

Woman President Meme has been focus group vetted ever since they perfected the Black President Meme.


40 posted on 06/28/2014 6:56:45 PM PDT by kaehurowing (FIGHT BULLYING, UNINSTALL FIREFOX)
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