Article in Slate today that resonates with me

[janterry]

Ongoing Struggles of Warren Campaign Provide Yet More Evidence That Voters Are Full of It

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/04/elizabeth-warren-2020-primary-voters-liars.html

Now consider some known facts about Elizabeth Warren, presidential candidate. She’s been working in politics since 1995, but she’s only 69. She has a record of liberal policy accomplishments but explicitly defines herself as being more moderate in her economic philosophy than ascendant “Democratic socialists” like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She launched her 2020 campaign by promoting a comprehensive anti-corruption plan and has instituted groundbreaking rules to prevent large donors from influencing her. One of the things she’s most well-known for is cracking down on fine-print consumer abuses like surprise medical bills; she actually came to prominence in part for her work on the subject of medical bankruptcies. The 2 percent wealth tax thing was her idea. She is, additionally, a woman.

Despite all this, Warren has been able to raise so little money for her campaign that the New York Times wrote a big story about it, and she’s stuck in fifth place in the polls, well behind two frontrunners who are well past age 75 and male. One of those frontrunners is the most donor-friendly Democratic candidate in the race and the other is a self-declared socialist.

I put her down as my candidate of choice because she is smart, effective, and has the 'best ideas' out there.

This kind of press makes me so sad. I really think she's great.

[AnyDemocrat2020]

1. I could not agree more!

Elizabeth Warren has the most substance and yet conversely the least adoring press of any of the candidates with substantive policy positions on a wide variety of topics.

I hope her candidacy gains real momentum, but whether she personally moves up in the standings or not, I really hope her agenda catches on with the primary voters.