Elizabeth Warren

Only one statewide poll is out since her announcement, and it shows her popularity spiking dramatically. Previous to her announcement, three polls put her 9-to-19 points behind Brown. The PPP poll just released shows her beating Brown 46-44 percent. That's a big bump in such a short period, but it is just one poll -- so we'll have to wait for further data before drawing solid conclusions. Her rise in support could also just be an initial spike after her announcement that she's entering the race, and could quickly fade away. Even with these caveats, the numbers certainly look better for Warren now than many were predicting even a few weeks ago.

lendmeflight2 wrote:John Edwards made a mistake, that doesn't mean he wasn't a good person or good lawmaker.


The thing that bothers me about Warren is I heard that she doesn't want to run for senate and is basically being forced into it. I don't know if that makes a good candidate.

"I hear all this, you know, 'Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever,'" Warren said. "No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own -- nobody.

"You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police-forces and fire-forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory -- and hire someone to protect against this -- because of the work the rest of us did.

"Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea. God bless -- keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is, you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along."

JoanB wrote:Am I too old to be president of a fan club?

I was so despondent when MA lost Ted Kennedy's seat to a rethug. But now that Elizabeth Warren has decided to run, I'm liking her more every time I see her. Check this out:

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/scarce/elizabeth-warren-myth-class-warfare

I guess that makes you a political junkie when you get giddy about a race that's over a year off and two states away from you!

exhaustedandtired/1208 wrote:

lendmeflight2 wrote:John Edwards made a mistake, that doesn't mean he wasn't a good person or good lawmaker.


The thing that bothers me about Warren is I heard that she doesn't want to run for senate and is basically being forced into it. I don't know if that makes a good candidate.

John Edwards reply to you lendme: Thank you God for your interpretation of good person!

tristen303 wrote:If the rich pay taxes at a higher rate while most pay no taxes then he's paid for those services. The factory owner should be pissed at those who are using the services he paid for and doing nothing ah the social contract I forgot. So he pays several times over from his earnings and still owes? I'm sure he didn't sign any "social contracts". Her statement is just cute.

tristen303 wrote:If the rich pay taxes at a higher rate while most pay no taxes then he's paid for those services. The factory owner should be pissed at those who are using the services he paid for and doing nothing ah the social contract I forgot. So he pays several times over from his earnings and still owes? I'm sure he didn't sign any "social contracts". Her statement is just cute.

lendmeflight2 wrote:John Edwards made a mistake, that doesn't mean he wasn't a good person or good lawmaker.


The thing that bothers me about Warren is I heard that she doesn't want to run for senate and is basically being forced into it. I don't know if that makes a good candidate.

JoanB wrote:Have loved Cenk ever since the Air America days. Comcast doesn't carry Current TV in our area and some people, whom we love dearly, and with whom we have chosen to share our life, and who will go unmentioned, refuse to switch to something that does.

JoanB wrote:

lendmeflight2 wrote:John Edwards made a mistake, that doesn't mean he wasn't a good person or good lawmaker.


The thing that bothers me about Warren is I heard that she doesn't want to run for senate and is basically being forced into it. I don't know if that makes a good candidate.

John Edwards was willing to risk four more years of a rethug presidency after the eight-year long horror show we went through. That's the part I can't forgive.

And I don't know if that's true about Warren, but it makes me wonder: might we have better senators if more if them didn't want so badly to be senators? And is that what I'm picking up on that makes me like her so much? (psssst Massachusetts, think about it)