As the tightly fought Senate race heads into its final two weeks, Elizabeth Warren has sharpened her emphasis on the national stakes of her campaign, arguing that the election is essential to determining which party controls the Senate.
It is a simple and direct appeal, intended to court Democratic-leaning voters who pay little attention to politics but are expected to cast ballots for President Obama and therefore may want a Senate that backs his policies.

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Elizabeth Warren developed, organized support both legislative and public constituencies , and helped create an agency that is already saving Americans millions. She has spent her professional life on banking and bankruptcy law and is recognized as a national expert. The two law cases the opposition fusses about shows a purposeful distortion of facts. It is ironic that Republicans usually take the side of corporations against their employees as a matter of course and suddenly consider themselves champions of the working person. Elizabeth Warren is endorsed by Sheila Bair. The former head of the FDIC and a staunch Republican was the first Democrat she wants elected. Who is Sheil Bair? She was head of an agency that was responsible for cleaning up the banking mess left by the loosy goosy regulations of the Bush administration. They worked together and clearly she does not think Scott Brown is up for the job to continue needed reforms. Further women make up over half of the work force and suffer economic bias that threatens their livelyhoods. We are not talking about those overachievers who have rose above obstacles but those who struggle on the lower rungs of the economic ladder. Scott Brown sponsored the Blunt Amendment, voted against equal pay citing employers could not handle the responsibility, voted against the Disclose Act, and against job bills that would ease the suffering of many families. Elizabeth Warren is a true advocate of women's and hence family's rights in terms of control of their bodies and economic well being. Scott Brown has a 80% rating with anti-choice groups and his record is to say the least inconsistent and heavily weighted against a women's role in this society as a contributing member to her family's prosperity. Do not forget Scott Brown voted 33 out of 35 times with Republicans via the filibuster to deny an up and down floor vote on important legislation. He voted against Elena Kagan proferring her lack of actual experience but a quick look at Wikepedia makes this suggestion a joke. There were few lawyers in the US more familiar with Supreme Court cases or arguments. She also had over tens years of law practice. So Now what in Senator Brown's actual record shows he deserves reelection at this moment in history? His credentials: I drive a truck and I live with a houseful of women. If that is so a lot more candidates should have shown up for the position.
She has never run a company. Never even run a product line!! Never laid awake at night as a business owner, sweating-out meeting payroll every two weeks! Liz Warren has never been a state rep. Never been a selectman. Never been a mayor. Never been a state senator. Liz Warren has never done ANYTHING that even remotely qualifies her to be our senator! She's not qualified. And don't even get me started on the lies and lifestyle that make her DIS-qualified!!!
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"Elizabeth Warren has sharpened her emphasis on the national stakes of her campaign, arguing that the election is essential to determining which party controls the Senate." Once again, Warren confirms what most voters already know: The Oklahoma native couldn't care less about representing the views of working-class Massachusetts residents. She merely seeks a national forum for advancing her far-left agenda. It's very telling that when a reporter went to interview Warren at her $2 million Cambridge mansion, the campaign took the unusual step of declaring the mansion to be "off the record." The HOUSE is off the record? Oh, right: If readers knew the kind of opulence with which Warren surrounds herself -- or saw photos of how she lives -- they'd have a lot harder time believing her "fighting for the little guy" BS. Massachusetts residents deserve a senator who will represent their interests, not the liberal agenda of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. They already have that senator in Scott Brown; let's hope they have the wisdom to keep him in the Senate and to send Prof. Warren back to her Cambridge manse and ivory tower.
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Thinking about George McGovern in this race's context: "I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American business people while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee. That knowledge would have made me a better legislator and a more worthy aspirant to the White House….legislators and government regulators must more carefully consider the economic and management burdens we have been imposing on U.S. businesses. . . . Many businesses, especially small independents such as the Stratford Inn, simply can't pass such costs on to their customers and remain competitive or profitable." "I can recover eventually from the loss of the Stratford Inn because I’m still able to generate income from lectures and other services. But what about the 60 people who worked for me in Stratford? While running my struggling hotel, I never once missed a payroll. What happens to the people who counted on that, and to their families and community, when an owner goes under?" George McGovern, after his Connecticut hotel/restaurant closed in 1991. Published in the Nation’s Restaurant News. Too bad Elizabeth Warren didn't have some private sector experience; she might not be so clueless on economic issues.
Scott Brown's only private experience was as a "model". That really qualifies him.
Where did all this "private sector experience" junk come from. Neither candidate has any, but I'm both of them will get plenty of advice from lobbyists. Maybe if you say Warren has no business experience long enough and loud enough, somebody might start thinking that Brown does. I believe Joseph Goebbels used to do that kind of thing.
Scott Brown's attacks are ludicrous and despicable and speak to his lack of character. Notice that his newest ad has 2 of the worst pictures of Elizabeth Warren possible -- making her look like a haggard witch. I guess that is his tactic in dealing with women -- if he can't make his case on an intellectual level, he tries to attack their looks. What else can you expect from a former model?
"You would think if she was going to run for Senator that she would have figured out how to do her hair by now!" ---- Just this morning, from a woman who finds Liz Warren a disqualified liar and lacking in the required experience.
I agree caitsmom, Scott Brown is ludicrous and the above shallow user-_ poster really knows what's important when electing a senator. Scott Brown has better hair than Elizabeth Warren so I'm going to vote for Brown.
I think Karl Rove and Crossroads just made his first ad for Brown, i.e., the $716B medicare "cuts". The lie is still reverberating from Brown but I don't think the people in Massachusetts are as stupid as those in other states who can't understand what the whole issue is about. Taking photos of Elizabeth that are less than flattering is a favored way of Republicans showing their opponents as somehow "lesser" than what they are. I find something arrogant about Brown and it's right below the surface. He's a handsome changeling whose words ring hollow. I think there's at least one debate remaining between the two and I hope somehow Elizabeth can bring out the Scott Brown that seems to hate anyone who dares want to take away his job. I really, really hope he loses and I hope everyone who believes in Elizabeth Warren will come out to vote for her. Don't stay home - vote!
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Nope. Can't have one Republican among our Congressional delegation. Democrats have been doing too good a job with this state. Gotta keep the delegation 100% D.
Nope. Can't have one Republican among our Congressional delegation. Democrats have been doing too good a job with this state. Gotta keep the delegation 100% D.