Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s credibility grows:[icopyright one button toolbar]
It kind of looks like a) she’s chosen a great way to run without yet running, and b) she’s developing a solid base among new voters. And she’s managed to put an effective distance between her potential candidacy and the corporatist Clinton crowd.
Speaking before more than 400 people at Carleton College, Warren repeatedly invoked the spirit of the late Paul Wellstone, the fiery liberal senator who died 12 years ago this month in a plane crash during his reelection campaign. Wellstone remains a revered figure in Minnesota politics, and his brand of populism — out of step in the Clintonian Democratic Party of the 1990s — is now mainstream among leading liberal activists. Warren has become the most prominent public face of that movement, and the Wellstone disciples in this town 40 miles south of Minneapolis gave their approval Saturday.
“The game is rigged, and the Republicans rigged it,” Warren said to loud cheers. …WaPo
Warren is out there campaigning for some of the best Democrats. She doesn’t need to be outed as a presidential candidate. She’s putting a healthy distance between Professor Warren and Populist Warren.
Hillary? Warren isn’t running for president. Yet. She just covering some territory –Minnesota, Iowa, Colorado. Then we’ll see…