Elizabeth Warren: Running as the middle class defender against Wall Street greed.
but is sticking with him. “Love him or hate him,
he needs to win,” Var- ley says. “Do I want Scott Brown to be more conser- vative? Absolutely. But he needs to get elected in Mas- sachusetts to stick it to the other side.” Warren has netted more
than $3 million in contri- butions. Her donor list includes Hollywood A-list- ers like Barbra Streisand. And by the end of 2011, spe- cial interest groups like the League of Women Voters had unleashed more than $3 million in negative ads. Warren herself had run more than $1 million worth of ads to introduce herself to voters.
Republican groups WARREN
have jumped in too, the most prominent being Karl Rove’s CrossroadsGPS. The advocacy organization has spent more than $1 mil- lion on ads criticizing War- ren for saying she laid the “foundation” for the Occu- py Wall Street movement. National Democrats
work across party lines on the measure. Brown has said that
legalized same-sex marriage in the state is settled and he does not seek to overturn it. He opposes a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. He also said Roe v. Wade is settled law. In December, he joined
a handful of Republicans who broke rank and voted to repeal “don’t ask, don’t tell,” the ban on openly gay
military personnel. Accord- ing to The Washington Post, Brown has voted with the majority of Republicans only 80 percent of the time. Christen Varley, an
early Brown supporter who heads the Greater Boston Tea Party, says she recently posted a picture of herself and the senator on her Face- book page and got deluged with hate mail from fellow tea partyers. Varley says she is disappointed with Brown
have targeted Brown because “they’re still red in the face over Scott’s 2010 win, and they feel it’s a seat they’re entitled to,” says Brown campaign manager Jim Barnett. “And they’re going to fight tooth and nail to get it back.” Republicans need a
Brown win to get control of the Senate, and are like- ly to spend millions to do so. “I think it’s remarkable that she’s the only [Demo- cratic] challenger Karl Rove has targeted so far,” says
Matt Canter, spokesman for the Democratic Senato- rial Campaign Committee. Warren herself says: “We must be doing something right if Karl Rove is attack- ing us.” The stakes are also
huge for the White House, because Warren created the new Consumer Finan- cial Protection Bureau, and like Obama, is running as the middle-class defender against Wall Street greed. “I think she’s critical
to the White House,” says radio host Feinberg, adding, “She’s a part of the Obama election machinery.” Democratic critics have
dubbed her “St. Elizabeth,” because the White House and party leaders essential- ly crowned her the nominee before the primary race had begun. Some Democrats are worried that she’s stak- ing out positions too far to the left, potentially turning off independents who will decide the race. “I think it’s going to be an
uphill climb for her,” says David Paleologos, director of Suffolk University poll- ing. Paleologos says Warren risks reminding voters too much of Democrat Martha Coakley, who infamously blew the race to Brown in the 2010 special election. “I think he’s going to be
tough to beat because he’s a brilliant politician,” says Margery Eagan, a liberal talk-show host and Boston Herald columnist. “I think there’s still a
love affair with Scott,” Fein- berg agrees.
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