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Elizabeth Warren Is Running Her Race. The Real One May Be Passing Her By
The New York Times via Yahoo! News ^ | February 11, 2020 | by Matt Flegenheimer, NY Times

Posted on 02/11/2020 11:59:10 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

CONCORD, NH -- Two days before a once-mission-critical primary in a state she neighbors, Sen. Elizabeth Warren - typically exceptional at holding a room - had not finished speaking when something unusual happened: Dozens of voters began filtering out of the middle school gym she had reserved.

Campaign staff strained to enlist prospective volunteers on their way to their cars. “Someone, anyone,” one organizer called out as departing guests stepped around him.

And when Warren wound toward her big finish, the go-out-and-get-’em kicker in these urgent final hours, her mind wandered accidentally to home.

“It’s up to you, Massachusetts, to decide what to do,” Warren instructed.

Supporters looked back at her, murmuring. She realized why. “And to the people of New Hampshire!” she amended.

“Yeah, I don’t know,” Warren told reporters in Concord, when pressed on the early exits in her audience. “It seemed like, to me, a pretty enthusiastic crowd.”

Many Warren admirers remain almost preternaturally calm about her electoral position, deciding after a year of semipermanent metapunditry from voters that this is not the time to overreact to disappointing news.

Warren set off on her unity case. “There’s been a lot of good people in this race,” she said, trumpeting recent staff hires. “I want you to know, I’ve put as many of them as I could into my campaign.”

Up the street, a Sanders canvasser walked by a home with signs out front for Klobuchar and Buttigieg.

Someone in a passing car recognized Warren as she stepped toward the next address. He lowered the window to announce himself:

“Go Bernieeeeeeeeeee.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: election2020; fakeindian; newhampshire; warren
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Even then the choice would be clear...
41 posted on 02/11/2020 1:13:36 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Time to up our FR Monthlies by 5-10%. You'll < hardly miss it and it will help.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Guy from the diner called, he’s still waiting for his extra syrup


42 posted on 02/11/2020 1:28:09 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
“It’s up to you, Massachusetts, to decide what to do,”

Three hundred years ago they knew.

43 posted on 02/11/2020 1:28:24 PM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: allendale

Yep. I think you are right.

Bloomberg is going to buy the nomination. If he succeeds, the race to November will be hugely entertaining and Little Mike will be a whole lot less rich, but no closer to the White House, when it’s over.


44 posted on 02/11/2020 1:35:22 PM PST by Chuckster (Friends don't let friends eat farmed fish)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Sen. Elizabeth Warren - typically exceptional at holding a room -

Like she held that diner where most everybody gave her the "leave me the hell alone so I can eat my lunch in peace" look?

45 posted on 02/11/2020 1:37:37 PM PST by KevinB ("Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge." - Charles Darwin)
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To: Balding_Eagle
Warren is Hillary without the warmth

And the...um...

"Gravitass". Yeah, that's it. Gravitass.

46 posted on 02/11/2020 1:37:51 PM PST by Chuckster (Friends don't let friends eat farmed fish)
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To: gcparent

She did.

But it would still rub the NH people the wrong way.


47 posted on 02/11/2020 3:07:11 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

48 posted on 02/11/2020 3:08:16 PM PST by dead (Trump puts crazy glue on their grenades and they never know it until after they pull the pin.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

49 posted on 02/11/2020 3:10:22 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: RightGeek

The people pictured here don’t like crowds.


50 posted on 02/11/2020 3:11:30 PM PST by samtheman (Trump TV Ad: Virginia takes guns. NY legalizes crime. Iowa steals votes. What Democrats do.)
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To: RightGeek

50-60 people in line.

Ha ha ha!


51 posted on 02/11/2020 3:11:30 PM PST by Arones (When Leftists are in a minority, then they look for other ways to win.)
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To: RightGeek

CROWD lines up LOL, LOL, LOL, hey Jennifer you think this is a CROWD??? You need to get out more often!!!


52 posted on 02/11/2020 3:13:18 PM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: dead

Hiawaffle


53 posted on 02/11/2020 3:21:12 PM PST by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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