Elizabeth Warren represents the Commonwealth's perennial need to embrace socialism, despite its proven failure to foster a fair and prosperous economy. I hope the good people of Massachusetts see through this fraud and vote for a moderate, pro-growth advocate like Brown.

Exactly letter writer!   I've bristled at her radio ads on my way to work. How does she think the majority  of the people she plans to represent earn a paycheck? Her anticorporate view of life will hinder, rather than encourage job growth for the middle class.    Warren's people seem to view the middle class as very left of center anticorporate types. We may have trust issues with corporations, and when they go too far, we take our business elswhere, but they are also our source of livelihood. Both candidates say they support the middle class, but the policies of a political moderate will more closely match the political views of the middle class, and provide the support we want and need. Warren's broad stroke anticorporate message leaves us knowing she doesn't get the middle class and why we need someone who will know when we need help against corporations, and when the corporation we depend on needs help.

I guess you are remembering about the time when teachers, public employees, minimum-wage earners, and retirees on social security crashed the stock market, wiped out half of our 401Ks, took trillions of taxpayer funded bail outs, spilled oil in the Gulf of Mexico, and gave themselves billions in bonuses and paid no taxes.  Not.

I think US corporations are killing the hard-working middle class.  Why did Scott Brown vote to subsidize big oil to the tune of 18 billion dollars?  To help the hard-working middle class or line the pockets of oil executives? 

Warren wants to prevent banks from lying about fees and interest rates, from hiding things in the fine print or legalese, and prevent corporations from retaking advantages that are not available to ordinary citizens.  She's never suggested wiping out capitalism, but we know that the little guy needAda level playing field.  That is all she's trying to do-- make sure there is a level playing field, making sure things are fair.  Do you really think that, alone, you stand a chance against a big bank or credit card company?

I agree that "anyone who wants to represent the people of Massachusetts as well as all the citizens of the United States should have a better grasp of how the country operates."

This is exavtly why I support Elizabeth Warren.  If anyone understands in great depth what the current lax regulation policies are doing to decimate the middle class, it is Elizabeth Warren.  I don't think Scott Brown has a clue.

Does Scott Brown understand how we got into the "Two Income Trap" situation where a family needs to have two incomes to barely keep their heads above water when we used to be able to support a middle-class life style on only one income.

Not only does Elizabeth Warren understand this, she wrote a book on it.  She did years of research to understand how this all happened.  Her book gives some surprising insights into where the middle-class are spending most of their income.  Surprisingly it is not on clothes or other frivolous items that the rich spend their money on.

In 10 or 15 minutes Elizabeth Warren can give you a great explanation starting from the history before the great depression up to the present day.  More people ought to listen to what she has to say.  It is eye openeing if you have not been keeping track of this yourself. Apparently many Boston Globe readers are failing to keep track of the facts, and until recently (in the past few weeks or less) the Globe has not been helping with its inadequate he said, she said approach to covering the news. 

Finally the Globe has started publishing real news.  They get away from he said, she said and into researching the truth themselves and publishing it.

Get real!  The backbone of the economy? 

You must be one of those who did not lose his life's savings during the recent crash.  A dear friend up in Maine lost nearly $90,000 because it was all in stock portfolio.  And who is responsible?  The very same fat-cats you are defending. We can't afford to let big business and high finance to play these games without reasonable rules and some good referees.  Imagine football played that way. Finally, you wouldn't be defending the 1% unless you are one of these elitists;  or are you just another starry-eyed wannabe?