Can anyone explain why Elizabeth Warren isn't doing better?

[booley]

78. Sincerity was part of it

At the beginning, there was this perception that Warren was more like Sanders. That even if Sanders lost, we still had warren and she would fight for the changes we wanted and needed.

When she didn't endorse Sanders that made a lot of people mad. There started being doubts if she as really as behind these policies as she claimed. But most brushed it aside as the kind of political calculations we expect from politicians. I was one of those.

So going into this she started off pretty good.

Then Warren released her Medicare for all plan and it ... did not look good. It cast doubt on whether she was really serious about Medicare for All. Then it seemed she was even moving away from the idea altogether. We can argue what was in Warren's heart of hearts but that was the perception and it hurt her.

We kept waiting for Warren to go after Biden over his vote on the Bankruptcy bill. And him falsely taking credit for her work for the Consumer Protection Bureau. But she never did. What she did do is engage ina He Said/She said over a year old conversation that no one could prove.

it also didn't help her that at least for a while, Obama seemed to be pushing her without outright coming out and sayign it. And she started taking on Hillary advisors. And taking advice from Clinton herself. All of which further reinforced the idea that Waren was just another political insider who talked change but didn't' really mean it.

So yeah, people just don't trust her anymore.

This is, I am sure, hard to hear for some. I expect many won't understand it when I say moving closer to Clinton hurt Warren. And I myself still have Warren as my second choice. But I am still .. disappointed.