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1StrongBlackMan

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Sat Mar 28, 2015, 01:35 PM Mar 2015

There is talk about Elizabeth Warren rising ... [View all]

to take Harry Reid's leadership role, when he doesn't run after his term expires.

I wonder how this will play out (if she takes it) for her, the democratic Party, and its various factions?

Senator Warren has made impressive bones in her/our fight for the working classes. I suspect it's because she has been laser focused on the fight, since before she entered the Senate.

But will she be able to marshal that focus as the Democratic Leader of the Senate?

And, if she does, i.e., focus (almost exclusively) on the economic well-being of the working classes (as she did/could as a non-leadership senator), how well that sit with the other factions within the democratic Party, as they see their issues getting shorted?

And, if she splits her attention, and less gets done on the economic front, will that affect her standing among her supporters?

And would that dump gasoline on the economic issues/social issues fire, currently playing out within the democratic Party?

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