The Democratic candidate for US Senator from Massachusetts has listed herself as Native American in the past….
Her family has always mentioned that she has native aAmerican ancestry ….
(My family has the same, as many of us do)….
The Scott Brown campaign has spotlighted the situation….
Warren has not been able to show proof of her blood line and has been off key…
After a few days of media angst….
The Warren campaign found an expert to back her claim….
SO…
She’s been fighting a rear guard political fight for a week….
She’s come out of the fight with an ad with the President in it…
There is no evidence that Ms. Warren gained a job or a promotion by asserting minority status, but the question hovered for several days. She said family lore held that she was connected to the Delaware and Cherokee tribes; the Warren campaign didn’t document a connection. Ms. Warren said she had listed herself as a minority-group member in hopes of meeting others who shared her background. Eventually, a New England genealogist said he had found a record suggesting that Ms. Warren was 1/32 Native American.
No candidate likes to spend day after day on defense, so Ms Warren tried in different ways to shift the focus back to Mr. Brown—for example, by attacking him for taking advantage of provisions of the Obama health-care law, which he voted against, by keeping his 23-year-old daughter on his family insurance policy.
Midweek, the Warren campaign launched a new television advertisement in which President Barack Obama sings the candidate’s praises. In the ad, Mr. Obama cites Ms. Warren’s advocacy for the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as “a new independent agency that would have one simple overriding mission: standing up for consumers and middle-class families.” The ad’s launch was planned before the ancestry controversy surfaced, but it turned out to be a well-timed thrust in her effort to define herself rather than be defined.
The Result: Critics said the Warren campaign’s inability to quickly quell the ancestry matter was a sign of Ms. Warren’s relative inexperience as a candidate. It remains to be seen if the controversy has any lasting effect on Ms. Warren’s profile among voters, but Republicans were delighted to see a star Democratic candidate spending so much time on defense in a race that will depend greatly on how voters are introduced to her.
Ms. Warren’s television ads underscore the strengths she brings to the race. She has raised more campaign cash than any other Senate challenger and is running ads at a time when Mr. Brown isn’t….
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Warren deserves to be criticized for this
It was absolutely ridiculous
Claiming to be a Native American with a 1/32 heritage?
This hurts her
Fatally?
No
Just so damn stupid
Jack….
On Warren…
THAT IS her heritage ….
WTF would she NOT claim it?
There are very few pure anyone’s in this country…
The issue was her HANDLING the situation…
NO ONE is actually challenging WHO she is made up of…..
I am
It was an OBVIOUS attempt to claim she was a Native American
She ISN’T
Hell to qualify as a Jew in Hitlers Germany one had to be one eighth!
And these were homicidal maniacs
It’s ridiculous and it hurts her
As it should
I am a Democrat
But silliness is silliness
And Warren calling herself a native American
Was
SILLY
We WILL disagree on this….
Just as the GOPer’s are after the BS….
I’m fine with it…
WTF are we to tell her WHO she is….
She’s a White American
Who had some great great Grandparent
Who had some Native American blood
She thought she was being cute
And got caught
That’s who she is
Amid all this overblown issue, the hard news is that a more-left-wing Latina candidate gathered enough signatures with unpaid volunteers to qualify herself as a Senate candidate at next month’s Democratic state convention. If 15% of the delegates vote (as they almost always do in a short field) to allow her name on the ballot, then Elizabeth Warren will face a contested primary in September, seven weeks before the general.
I think this is healthy, no matter who wins, but expert opinion, according to The Boston Globe, is quite divided as to whether a primary would help or hurt Warren’s chances against Scott Brown.
Prof. Warren still has too much of that new-car look of a candidate without significant local political or community connections parachuted in by the national party (remember Tammy Duckworth in the Illinois congressional races?) if there’s some kind of campaign, she’ll have a chance to establish herself among the base, and the base will feel it had some say in choosing her. Of course, that will be even truer for her challenger, should she win.
I know this is the opposite of the 2010 situation, where Martha Coakley had all the political chits plus being the woman among several males but had none of the relevant expertise that Elizabeth Warren brings. But everything’s so different that it’s hard to make direct comparisons.
OH….
I REMEMBER Coakley who thought she had it in the bad and went on VACATION right after the primary….
Them fumbled the whole thing OUCH!
Yes Warren IS a neofight….
But she’s got ton’s of money….
She’s in a Blue State…
She’s got the President on her side…
As I’ve said all along…
Scott Brown IS a likable guy..
Especially so to Blue collar types and Boston Guys whole like sports….
Like Obama..
She WILL have to get out the vote…
A primary WILL make her better….
She ain’t gonna lose….
But It WILL be VERY important for her to get the Latina who DOES lose to work with her going into November…
She’ll need those votes…
And Yes the issue wasn’t her heritage….
It WAS how she stumbled on it….
The Republican’s are AGAIN aiming at the Blue Collar voter….
Just like the people I was pointing at earlier in the day who ARE Democrats….
BUT Can’t bring themselves top voted for a black or mixed guy for President…..
AGAIN….
So does females have the same problem even with a lot of them in office by now…
Contrast Scott Brown’s commercial tag-line, “My name is Scott Brown, I’m from Wrentham and I drive a truck”, which he did all over the Commonwealth, to Martha Coakley calling Curt Schilling “another Yankees fan”.
Who’d have more natural appeal to the workingman’s vote?
NO CONTEST!
Scott Brown’s 2009 commercial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liB95GBk0WU