Posted on 05/21/2012 3:51:46 AM PDT by billorites
Bay State Democrats are standing by their woman, saying they’re confident in embattled Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren — now three weeks into a persistent scandal over her claims of Native American heritage — though critics say she’ll arrive at her party’s state convention next month battered by it.
“This is a race that is a dead heat,” said state Democratic Party chairman John Walsh, citing a recent poll and insisting the flap has had no effect on Warren’s standing as the party’s front-runner. He said no one is talking about replacing her. “It’s not a sentiment that is out there at all.”
“The Democratic Party is really stuck,” countered University of New Hampshire political science professor Andrew Smith. “They essentially cleared the path for her as a candidate, and they can’t get rid of her now. She could conceivably drop out, but I doubt that will be the case, and I doubt the party will try to push her aside.”
The Warren campaign declined to comment yesterday. Warren has faced mounting criticism about her claims of minority status since they were first reported by the Herald last month. She cites “family lore” but has been unable to prove Cherokee ancestry, making her a butt of jokes nationally. Democrat Marisa DiFranco remains in the race, emboldened in part by Warren’s inability to address the issue. “We need a Democratic nominee who can define herself and not be defined by Scott Brown and the GOP machine,” DiFranco told the Herald yesterday.
Smith and some Democrats say the party can’t switch front-runners now — it’s probably too late for a big name that could attract big money to jump in and gather the 10,000 signatures needed by a June 5 deadline.
“They’re in a tough spot, but there’s not a lot they can do about it,” Smith said.
Warren had $10.9 million as of late March to Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown’s $15 million.
“There’s no one else who could get that money,” Democratic pundit Lou DiNatale said. “She herself was well known enough to attract that massive amount of money, so no, she’s not going anywhere.”
“Anyone who is talking about someone waiting in the wings to take her place simply doesn’t understand how the process works,” Democratic strategist Michael Goldman said, citing the tight filing deadline.
But GOP strategist Todd Domke said Warren and her backers are fooling themselves if they think the minority issue will go away: “In a future debate, she will be asked this question by a panelist and it will come up and she has no good answer for it, and that will be the problem.”
The Democrats in Mass aren’t Indian givers.
Considering the most recent Rasmussen poll shows Obama destroying Romney in MA by 21%... I'd estimate the chances of a Romney victory there to be less than fully optimal.
If Ward Churchill had a daughter would she look like Elizabeth Warren?
- Rush
The scandal continues to grow more legs. Now it turns out that she copied recipes word for word from Good Housekeeping and the NY Times and put them in a Indian recipe book (”Pow Wow Chow”) under her own name. Even more laughable, these recipes originated in high-end French restaurants - nothing to do with Indian food at all. Instructions for the recipes included crab meat and cooking eggs in 7-inch Teflon skillets - yeah, I’m sure the Cherokees had plenty of those lying around as well as access to crab meat!
Rush said that? LOL!
I live in Massachusetts and doubt very much that is the case. It's going to be much closer than that in November and while I'm not yet predicting Romney to win here, I think Scott Brown's chances are now excellent.
Right now the pollsters are focusing on the battleground states. I suspect the MA Rasmussen poll you are referring to was cursory at best.
Hussein has proven that LIARS win. Why change now?
Did he say “dead heat” or “dead meat” about Crock-a-jawea?
“Senator Lautenberg says, “Rules? Rules are for Republicans!””
Lautenberg is from the “Dead Man Walking Tribe”
He’s even older than A CACA and IN NO WAY, the “Dynamic Duo From Marxist Hawaii.
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