Another day, another right-wing smear of Elizabeth Warren debunked. The GOP is clearly desperate.
US Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren’s campaign said today that she raised $6.9 million in the first three months of the year, continuing the Democratic challenger’s staggering pace and doubling the figure collected by incumbent Scott Brown…
Warren’s campaign noted in an e-mail sent to supporters today that she still has $4 million less in the bank than Brown, who had money left over from his 2010 special election victory when he began fundrasing for his reelection campaign.
The latest numbers show that she has to continued to close that gap with surprising speed.
Elizabeth Warren raises $6.9 million in first quarter, more than double Senator Scott Brown
PPP’s newest Massachusetts poll finds Elizabeth Warren leading Scott Brown 46-41.
Brown is not proving to be an overwhelmingly popular Senator. 45% of voters approve of the job he’s doing to 42% who disapprove.
Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren talks with Jennifer Granholm about a pact with her Republican opponent Scott Brown to limit campaign funding from third-party super PACs. “If the Koch brothers don’t like it … maybe that says something good about it,” Warren says. She also addresses recent controversy about her ownership of IBM stock as a potential member of Congress. “I don’t think people in Congress ought to own stock in companies where they can influence the outcomes,” Warren says. “If I were in Congress, I’d sell [all of my IBM stock] in a heartbeat.
Elizabeth Warren on her Super PAC pact and a plan to sell IBM stock ‘in a heartbeat’ if elected (Video)
So, Elizabeth Warren is now an “elitist hypocrite” for earning a six-figure income? You’re better than this campaign, senator, and better than the name-calling.
She now has slightly more than $6 million, compared to Brown’s $12.8 million.
Karl Rove’s latest smears against Democrats Elizabeth Warren and Ben Nelson get shredded.
The UMass-Lowell/Herald poll reveals Brown’s popularity has dropped significantly since Warren essentially wrapped up the Democratic nomination and a pro-Warren interest group, the League of Conservation voters, began a blitz of negative ads against Brown. Brown’s job approval rating has dropped eight points to 45 percent in the last two months.
And less than half of Massachusetts voters - 48 percent - now say they have a favorable view of the Republican from Wrentham, down from 52 percent in the UMass-Lowell/Herald poll in late September. The percentage of voters who say they have an unfavorable view of Brown has increased from 29 to 35 percent, according to the poll.
But Warren has also apparently suffered from a Karl Rove-led TV attack ad campaign, which focuses on her stated support for the Occupy Wall Street movement. Just 18 percent of voters had an unfavorable view of Warren in late September, and that number has now jumped nine points to 27 percent. Warren’s favorable numbers have increased only slightly, from 30 to 34 percent.
(Source: sleeplessinsouthie)
how Karl Rove’s latest smear tactics against Elizabeth Warren are backfiring
The Nation’s Ari Berman says Karl Rove’s latest attack ads against Sen. Jon Tester and Elizabeth Warren are further damaging Rove’s credibility and having the opposite of his intended effect. “We saw, for example, after that ad ran, a ton of people flooded the Elizabeth Warren website. Made a lot of donations. And it helped her profile – it didn’t hurt her at all,” says Berman.
[Crossroads GPS, a group] co-founded by Karl Rove that raises and spends unlimited money on “independent advocacy,” is using the Massachusetts airwaves to fan the culture war flames.
A new 30-second ad from the group notes that Elizabeth Warren, the Democrat who will likely challenge Sen. Scott Brown next year, has aligned herself with the Occupy Wall Street movement. Then, with menacing music and unflattering images from the protest in the background, a narrator warns that OWS is made up of “extreme left protesters” who “attack police, do drugs and trash public parks. They support radical redistribution of wealth – and violence.” (“Democratic” pollster Doug Schoen even makes a cameo…)
Right now, voters seem to be sending a mixed message about OWS. The actual protests themselves may be losing favor, thanks to the right’s campaign and to the recent increase in reports of violence. But the issues that the protests have forced into the political debate — about Wall Street accountability, income inequality, and the decline of the middle class — all play to Warren’s advantage; she is where most voters are on these topics, and Brown isn’t.
All of which could make the Bay State the perfect 2012 laboratory to test the power — or lack thereof — of right’s culture war strategy on OWS.
Republicans have been pushing the line that there’s something wrong with Elizabeth Warren’s personal wealth and her championing the interests of consumers and working families…
I have no idea why anyone would find this even remotely compelling.
Warren has, apparently, acquired a fair amount of wealth, after having been raised by a family of modest means, and putting herself through law school. She is now one of the nation’s leading, and most articulate, voices in representing the interests of the middle class.
The right sees this as “hypocrisy” — Warren is wealthy, but she’s championing those who aren’t wealthy. Maybe Warren could use some of her money to buy dictionaries for her critics so they can look up what “hypocrisy” actually means…
[W]hen those with considerable personal resources look at the status quo — a growing class gap, wealth concentrated at the top, rising poverty — and want a more progressive approach, that’s evidence of sanity, not hypocrisy.
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