Here's why Elizabeth Warren didn't run for president in 2016

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7. Nothing happened before Bernie decided to run for president.

I'm being sarcastic, of course, but there are many of his supporters who act as though that's a truism. I usually write it off as people new to politics who don't understand that the Democratic party has a long history of fighting for women and fighting for minorities and fighting for poor people and fighting for education, etc. It could also be that they're being intentionally obtuse.

I do think that Warren made a bit of a tactical error by aligning herself with Sanders early on in the campaign on stuff like M4A. I think it's caused her to suffer a bit from blowback he's received on a couple of issues, simply by association.

That's hindsight, of course, and it's difficult to know what could or should have been done differently. As I noted above, I don't really get why she isn't doing much better than he is. Conventional wisdom is that they're splitting the same contingency, but I'm not sure that's all there is to it.