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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: trisham

Affirmative action politics. Too bad the metrosexual white males will still vote for them.


41 posted on 06/28/2014 7:00:30 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: GeronL

I say bring it on Granny Clampett.


42 posted on 06/28/2014 7:03:48 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: GeronL

There are times that I wonder if something is being put into the public water supplies.


43 posted on 06/28/2014 7:04:07 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: Second Amendment First

I tried out the “Warren/Castro” ticket on a few libs and they were thrilled. They believe it is unbeatable.


44 posted on 06/28/2014 7:10:55 PM PDT by Zuse (I am disrupted! I am offended! I am insulted! I am outraged!)
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To: Second Amendment First

I’m sick of hearing about “conservative” or “blue-collar” Democrats.

Democrats are all baby-murderers. Thus, all Democrats are Satanists.

Or, as Cardinal Dolan says, “the natural home of Catholics.”


45 posted on 06/28/2014 7:12:13 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: Second Amendment First

Now that Obama has declared he intends to shut down the coal industry, why would anyone in coal-rich states like West Virginia and Kentucky ever vote for a Democrat again?

If Obama stated his intention to shut down the American automobile industry, would voters in Michigan still vote for Democrats? Would Texans vote for Democrats if Obama decided to destroy the oil industry?

And what will Elizabeth Warren do in West Virginia and Kentucky to help get out the women’s vote? Make speeches to coal miners’ daughters and wives urging them to vote for Democrats so their fathers and husbands can lose their jobs?


46 posted on 06/28/2014 7:20:34 PM PDT by Bluestocking
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To: sitetest

Think of the elections as a mirror reflecting the moral decay that this formerly great nation has started.
The voters are responsible for allowing politicians with deviant character to seize the reins of power.


47 posted on 06/28/2014 7:21:02 PM PDT by griswold3 (I was born heI're in America. I will die here in a third world country. Obama succeeded.)
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To: Chickensoup
Do you have any idea how many stupid women will make a presidential decision based on genitalia?

The two social democrats that I know who think Warren is the second coming are both men.

One was a Hillary Supporter in 2008, but jumped on the Obama Bandwagon when O got the nod. They both voted for Obama, but now one thinks he is a War Criminal. The other one thinks O is great.

48 posted on 06/28/2014 7:33:46 PM PDT by sockmonkey (Of course I didn't read the article. After all, this is Free Republic.)
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To: Second Amendment First
Having seen and heard Princess Liawatha up close and personal over the last couple of years here in the Gay State I can guarantee fellow Freepers that she's at least as filthy...as phony...as dangerous as The Former Twelfth Lady.
49 posted on 06/28/2014 7:49:05 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Rat Party Policy:Lie,Deny,Refuse To Comply)
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To: Second Amendment First
The most dangerous politician in America, period.

Warren is a hard-core Leninist.

Obama and Hillary both look ideologically weak compared to Warren.

50 posted on 06/28/2014 7:50:05 PM PDT by magellan
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To: trisham

bump


51 posted on 06/28/2014 7:51:09 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Second Amendment First

This woman is such an obvious FAKE and LIAR. The fact that anyone pays attention to her tells me that we are in a hopeless, terminal idiocracy.


52 posted on 06/28/2014 8:12:03 PM PDT by Captainpaintball (Immigration without assimilation is the death of a nation)
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To: Captainpaintball

So far only MA has fallen for her, & MA is a deep blue, flaky state. Other MA pols have tried & failed on the national stage. Warren may well be one of them.


53 posted on 06/28/2014 8:43:51 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Fantasywriter
So far only MA has fallen for her, & MA is a deep blue, flaky state. Other MA pols have tried & failed on the national stage. Warren may well be one of them.

She has a big kollege kid following. Mainly because she wants to lower loan payments, or eliminate them completely. Reddit.com loves her. Although I believe she pays kids to post good things about her, to get her name out there.

54 posted on 06/28/2014 9:45:19 PM PDT by Captainpaintball (Immigration without assimilation is the death of a nation)
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To: Bratch

Democrats like dumb women. They have considered both Patty Murray and Mary Landrieu to be vice presidential material. The two of them together don’t have a triple digit IQ.


55 posted on 06/28/2014 9:45:48 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: sitetest

Yes, she is. She would make a great commandant at a re-education camp. Warren is one spooky loon.


56 posted on 06/28/2014 9:47:09 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: Zuse; Second Amendment First

57 posted on 06/28/2014 9:47:35 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: madprof98

“Isn’t she a Washington Redskin?”

She will never say a word about this subject. To do so will unleash a flood of jokes, scorn, etc..

Howie Carr, her nemesis on Boston Radio, just signed a national deal. He is praying that she opens her mouth about the Redskins.


58 posted on 06/29/2014 3:59:06 AM PDT by Makana ("Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles." -Emerson)
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To: DAC21

Granny Clampett was an unpretentious straight shooting purveyor of common sense. Not like Lizzie Warren at all.

G.C. would have made a great Secretary of State, IMO.


59 posted on 06/29/2014 7:17:13 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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