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MoveOn.org preparing million dollar 'draft Elizabeth Warren' campaign



At one time, it was a virtual guarantee that Hillary Clinton was a lock for the Democrats' 2016 presidential nomination. She had the momentum, the financial backers, and the "good old days" zeitgeist that was supposed to propel her to the White House. It also doesn't hurt that virtually every lefty on Earth owes her some kind of favor.
Now, however, some lefties are ready to retire their warhorse. For the last year-and-a-half, Hillary has been looking - for a variety of reasons - less and less viable with each passing month. Quietly at first, then more and more loudly, Elizabeth Warren has been touted as the left-wing "new hotness" to Hillary's "old and busted." This week, the fringe left made it official. MoveOn.org is setting up shop in New Hampshire and Iowa, where it will spend upwards of a million dollars on staff and advertising designed to "draft Elizabeth Warren."
The liberal group is poised to spend $1 million on a campaign to draft Senator Warren, the Massachusetts Democrat, into the 2016 presidential race, an indication of an appetite among some activists for a more progressive alternative to Hillary Rodham Clinton. MoveOn.org's executive director, Ilya Sheyman, said the group planned to open offices and hire staff in Iowa and New Hampshire, the states that kick off the presidential nominating process, and ultimately to air television ads in those states. The group will begin its push with a website, "Run Warren Run," allowing supporters to sign a petition urging Ms. Warren to pursue a White House bid and featuring a video about her.

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"We want to demonstrate to Senator Warren that there's a groundswell of grass-roots energy nationally and in key states and to demonstrate there's a path for her," Mr. Sheyman said. He added that the effort was not being made in coordination with Ms. Warren and that the group advised her staff about it only last weekend.
Now, if I were a betting man, I'd say that Hillary is still the presumptive nominee. The Obama years may have taken the bloom off the Clinton rose, but the roots still run deep. As she was in 2008, Hillary will remain the 2016 frontrunner. ...Right up until the moment that she may or may not collapse completely. The most interesting thing about this kind of cash being thrown at a potential Warren campaign is that it's illustrative of just how fractured the Dems really are. Left-wing pundits love to portray the GOP as a squalid pit of infighting but, in reality, the gap between the base and the moderates is nowhere near as wide as it is on the other side of the aisle. Imagine how broken your party has to be when its base declares a leftist-statist like Hillary Clinton - and her Democrat supporters - "too conservative" to nominate. The GOP certainly has issues of its own, but when you look at things on a policy-by-policy basis, the differences between conservatives and centrists are fairly minor. Important, to be sure, but not insurmountable. If the Democrats have devolved to a state where a person like Hillary Clinton is viewed as too far to the right, they have problems that dwarf their Republican counterparts. Frankly, a Warren run might be a lot of fun to watch. She'd be the most liberal Democrat nominee since 1972, and I suspect that she - unlike Hillary - will be incapable of disguising her extreme leftist agenda. ...To be blunt, Fauxcahontas can't, or won't, be able to play to the middle.


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