2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumCould Elizabeth Warren become the go-to Democrat this election cycle?
BY NIA-MALIKA HENDERSON June 25 at 6:00 AM
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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pipoman
(16,038 posts)I predict Hillary will be left to live out her life in self proclaimed poverty. ..
earthside
(6,960 posts)She is a smart politician.
And at this point it doesn't serve any political purpose for her to express much interest in the 2016 Democratic Party presidential nomination. However, she is doing all the necessary stuff that a potential candidate ought to be doing.
When Hillary Clinton finally ... finally ... concludes that America's Democrats, liberals and progressives want a fresh face and a real progressive for their 2016 nominee, Warren will be ready.
The Clintons are in Denver this week with the 'Clinton Global Initiative' show and the photos in today's Denver Post show exactly why Hillary is not one of us. The event is elitist, full of bankers, condescending in its tone, very upscale -- the Clintons are power brokers and they want everyone to know it.
2016 will present a great opportunity for Democrats to get this country moving in the progressive direction -- we better not blow it with a throwback to the 1990s.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)she was a Reagan era Republican, part of a Party that was actively homophobic, racist as anything and deadly for poor people. One of us? That's a heck of a leap.
earthside
(6,960 posts)Goodness ... FDR was very wealthy, as were John, Bobby and Ted Kennedy.
I see in Warren a fighter for progressive causes, her evolution or the Repuglican Party's drift into extremism is not a disqualifier -- after all Hillary was a 'Goldwater Girl'.
When I see Hillary denounce Common Core and the corporatist so-called 'education reform' ... then maybe I'll give her a second look; when she announces firm opposition to TPP, the maybe I'll give her another glance; when she talks about a plan to break-up the mega-banks, maybe I'll pay a bit more attention to her; when she stands along side the Nebraska ranchers against the Keystone XL pipeline, maybe I'' give her some 'progressive' credit.
At least Warren is out there right now proposing ideas that will really help average folks in 2014.
But Hillary Clinton has a long way to go for a progressive like me.
warrior1
(12,325 posts)had said more than once she isn't running for president.
ChangeUp106
(549 posts)No one is asking Hillary because it's assumed but as of now wouldn't she say the same thing? That said I don't think Warren will run. Look what people like Bernie are doing. They're going to the primary states, they're making the press with stuff like 'Eric Cantor upset of Hillary.' Warren had her book and hasn't done much else.