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Why Elizabeth Warren is cratering?
Yahoo Finance ^ | 02/13/2020 | Rick Newman

Posted on 02/13/2020 11:13:43 AM PST by SeekAndFind

One big story after the first two Democratic primary elections is the fast fade of former Vice President Joe Biden, who came in fourth in Iowa and a dismal fifth in New Hampshire. But one other prominent candidate is quickly losing altitude as well: Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

Last fall, Warren was more popular than Bernie Sanders and a solid second behind Biden. Her rallies drew thousands and her plans for everything forced competing candidates to plan up. But Warren landed third in Iowa and fourth in New Hampshire, a particularly lousy showing given that she’s from the neighboring state of Massachusetts. Her odds of winning the Democratic nomination are now in the low single digits.

What happened? Three things:

First, Warren backtracked on Medicare for all, the proposed giant health care plan that would eliminate private insurance. As she took a leadership position last fall, critics began to pester Warren to explain how she’d pay for the massively costly program. She finally did explain how—through a new wealth tax on millionaires—but she also low-balled the cost, coming in around $1 trillion less per year than independent estimates. That made it look like Warren was waffling and perhaps mulling other tax hikes, on regular folks, that she wasn’t bothering to mention.

Then, last November, she changed her mind, sort of. Warren announced a new “transition” plan that would start out like the “public option” Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobhuchar favor, and become Medicare for all after a couple of years, as everybody saw how great the public option was. This was far too clever, and it made Warren the only Democrat pandering to both the center and the left. She ended up stranded between the two factions on one of the topics that matters most to Democrats.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: 2020; 2020demprimary; campaign; elizabethwarren; fauxahontas; massachusetts; miserablefailure; slingingbull; warren
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To: SeekAndFind
The simple answer to this conundrum of Elizabeth Warren’s lack of voters is that the more she talks the less people like or trust her. She is a thoroughly dis-likable person.

Her Native American name should be ‘The Flogging’ because hearing her talk is like taking a beating.

21 posted on 02/13/2020 11:35:31 AM PST by wildcard_redneck (If the Trump Administration doesn't prosecute the coup plotters he loses the election in 2020)
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To: urbanpovertylawcenter
EW has a voice and speaking cadence more annoying than HRC.

And who would have thought that was possible!?

22 posted on 02/13/2020 11:39:05 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: SeekAndFind

23 posted on 02/13/2020 11:40:28 AM PST by SteveH (intentionally blank)
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To: SeekAndFind

Lying to get ahead is not good for credibility.


24 posted on 02/13/2020 11:43:21 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: SteveH

The President should use that in an ad for whoever is the nominee (applies to all of them)
Very simple explanation of socialism and it hits people where it hurts..their family.


25 posted on 02/13/2020 11:44:01 AM PST by Leep (Everyday is Trump Day!)
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To: urbanpovertylawcenter

That’s funny. Her initials are “ew”. That’s the response she elicits from me....ew!


26 posted on 02/13/2020 11:45:16 AM PST by FrdmLvr (They never thought she would lose.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Too much beer guzzling and fire water guzzling...



27 posted on 02/13/2020 11:52:37 AM PST by Songcraft
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To: Red Badger
Because she’s a lying dog-faced-pony-soldier...........

.... whose cabinet will be vetted by young transgenders approximately 9 years of age.

She'd gotten away with piling it higher and deeper for a long time, but eventually the pile topples over.

28 posted on 02/13/2020 11:56:24 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: SeekAndFind

Because she reminds men of their first wife. The screeching, the body language and a face that could stop a sundial.


29 posted on 02/13/2020 11:57:45 AM PST by Skeptical constituent
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To: SeekAndFind

One thing she does do well -— is prance back and forth across the stage or floor.


30 posted on 02/13/2020 11:58:05 AM PST by Exit148
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To: SeekAndFind

Because she comes across as a bitter old school marm who would rap your knuckles with a ruler for not paying attention?


31 posted on 02/13/2020 12:05:27 PM PST by Mama Shawna
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To: Exit148


Chief Schiffing Bull's Swan Song

(youtube video link)


32 posted on 02/13/2020 12:10:20 PM PST by Songcraft
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

33 posted on 02/13/2020 12:20:11 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Exit148

Yes, she’s very peppy. Slim, trim, total opposite of the physical Hillary. That’s why I’m not understanding why she’s cratering.
If the dems liked Hillary, why not Elizabeth?


34 posted on 02/13/2020 12:20:34 PM PST by HotKat (Politicians are like diapers; they need to be changed often and for the same reason. Mark Twain)
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To: SeekAndFind

Cause....Democrats are misogynists?


35 posted on 02/13/2020 12:20:57 PM PST by Stayingawayfromthedarkside (Look, is it America that I see again?)
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To: HotKat

She definitely has a similar grating voice.


36 posted on 02/13/2020 12:21:57 PM PST by Leep (Everyday is Trump Day!)
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To: Exit148

Yes, she’s very peppy. Slim, trim, total opposite of the physical Hillary. Plus she doesn’t wear crazy clothes. That’s why I’m not understanding why she’s cratering.
If the dems liked Hillary, why not Elizabeth?


37 posted on 02/13/2020 12:22:00 PM PST by HotKat (Politicians are like diapers; they need to be changed often and for the same reason. Mark Twain)
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To: SeekAndFind

This is drek.


38 posted on 02/13/2020 12:29:26 PM PST by Luke21
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To: SeekAndFind

Nobody wants a radical version of Gladys Kravitz peaking over your shoulder everyday seeing what you are up to.


39 posted on 02/13/2020 12:51:45 PM PST by DAC21 ( and Naflet)
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To: Red Badger
Because she’s a lying dog-faced-pony-soldier............

Yes. Somebody finally had the courage to come out and say it.

Others thought it was because she's lacking in personality,has a monotonous and maddening speaking style, is ugly, reminds males of man-hating school teachers or nuns all their lives, and she smells bad. So does her breath.

And if she lied about being a Native American on documents at least two separate times then can we trust her that all the North Korean and Iranian nukes were destroyed before she signed her treaty to disarm us? (Unless she lied.)

40 posted on 02/13/2020 12:54:10 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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