Today is a big day for MA Senate candidate and thoroughly awesome person, Elizabeth Warren
Let's send her some solid DU vibes, shall we?
Warren faces test in Democratic caucuses
Front-runner aims to prevent opponents from getting enough votes to get on ballot
By Frank Phillips
Globe Staff / February 11, 2012
She has electrified the activists, but now, after her much ballyhooed entrance into electoral politics, US Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren faces her first serious challenge: rallying enough state Democratic Party convention delegates to clear the primary field.
That test starts today as thousands of Democrats across Massachusetts begin the two-week process of choosing delegates to June’s state party endorsement convention.
The results of the more than 500 meetings of voters at local schools and town halls will measure whether Warren, whose candidacy has excited local Democratic activists and drawn widespread national attention, has harnessed that energy into an effective statewide political machine that she hopes can help her defeat Senator Scott Brown, a Republican.
Warren, a Harvard Law School professor whose public profile was forged in part during her battles in Washington as a consumer advocate, faces minimal opposition in her bid to win the party’s backing at the June convention and the nomination in the September Democratic primary. The question is whether she has the muscle to sweep the caucuses and gain enough slates of delegates committed to her to block the two other candidates in the race - Marisa DeFranco of Middleton and James Coyne King of Dover - from the ballot.
The rest: http://www.boston.com/news/politics/articles/2012/02/11/democratic_caucuses_may_start_to_narrow_senate_field/?p1=News_links
Run the table, and let's get Teddy's seat back.
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