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Warren's Cherokee Mess Highlights 'Unfair' Racial Quotas

Matt Cantor — Mon, 07 May 2012 10:52:01 CDT

Some have called the controversy over Elizabeth Warren's claim to Native American ancestry a "non-issue," but it underlines a serious problem, writes Michael Barone at RealClearPolitics . The flap "illustrates the rottenness of our system of racial quotas and preferences": If Warren did use her very distant background—she appears to...

Warren on Defensive Over Claims to Indian Roots

John Johnson — Thu, 03 May 2012 15:41:05 CDT

Elizabeth Warren is still playing defense over a flap about her claims to Native American ancestry. The problem for her is that "she isn't playing defense very well," writes Rachel Weiner at the Washington Post . Ever since reports surfaced last week that Warren identified herself as a minority in her...

Elizabeth Warren Leads Scott Brown in New Poll

John Johnson — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:31:05 CDT

A spate of polls earlier this month showed Scott Brown taking a solid lead over Elizabeth Warren in his bid to stay in the Senate in Massachusetts. A new survey from Public Policy Polling will cheer Warren's supporters: It shows her in front, although by a scant 46-41 margin, reports...

GOP Blasts Elizabeth Warren for Hollywood Pals

Kevin Spak — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:25:05 CST

Elizabeth Warren is running for Senate in Massachusetts, but her foes are taking great delight in pointing out that some of her biggest fans live 3,000 miles away. Roughly 20% of Warren's donations came from California last quarter, thanks to celebrities like Danny Devito, who has tweeted videos of...

Scott Brown Beating Warren

Kevin Spak — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 12:37:34 CST

Massachusetts Democrats are over the moon about Elizabeth Warren, sure she'll beat Scott Brown and win back Ted Kennedy's old Senate seat—or at least, they were. Now a new string of polls has them sweating, the Boston Globe reports. A new survey from Western New England University Polling and...

Brown, Warren Make Pact to Boot Super PACs

Evann Gastaldo — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:34:28 CST

Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren are rivals in a sure-to-be-bitterly-contested race for Ted Kennedy's old Senate seat, but they both want super PACs to stay out of it: The rivals yesterday entered into a pact discouraging outside groups from airing ads on their behalf; both Brown and Warren agreed to...

Scott Brown, Elizabeth Warren: Kill Super PACs

Polly Davis Doig — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:45:38 CST

Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren agree on at least two things: They'd each like to be the junior senator from Massachusetts, and they both want outside money in the form of super PACs to stay out of their race to achieve that goal. The pair issued a joint call for...

Elizabeth Warren Aligns Senate Bid With Occupy

Neal Colgrass — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:25:26 CST

Elizabeth Warren is embracing the Occupy movement in her Massachusetts Senate campaign, shocking political analysts and creating a test case for Democrats seeking to regain Congress, the Los Angeles Times reports. "Every candidate's watching her because she's something of a phenomenon," one analyst says. "They're not so ready to embrace...

Tea Party Backer Heckles Elizabeth Warren

John Johnson — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:56:45 CDT

It's tough out there on the campaign trail: Elizabeth Warren found herself being called a "socialist whore" working at the behest of her "foreign-born" boss by a Tea Party heckler this week, reports the Huffington Post . The man spoke up as Warren began her speech in Brockton, Mass., to say...