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Reuters: Liberals work to lure Elizabeth Warren into White House race
Liberals work to lure Elizabeth Warren into White House race
2/13/2015
MANCHESTER, N.H. (Reuters) - The scene in the New Hampshire office is one common to any nascent U.S. presidential campaign in the state that holds the country's first primary contest: Young staffers peck away at laptops and unpack boxes of signs with their candidate's name.
But the Democrat they are working for, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, adamantly denies plans to seek the presidency.
...MoveOn.org, which wants to see Warren in the race and her ideas heard, is a political powerhouse with a grass-roots organization that helped elect and re-elect President Barack Obama, including his long and hard-fought battle with Clinton for the Democratic nomination in 2008. Democracy for America has its own strong pedigree, dating back to Vermont Democrat Howard Dean's 2004 presidential run.
"We believe that she would be the strongest candidate in the general election," said Kurt Ehrenberg, a veteran political operative who is heading up the Run Warren Run operation in New Hampshire. "Our job is not only to convince Senator Warren to get into the race, it's to focus the race on these issues."
At Run Warren Run's Manchester office, Ehrenberg and three young staffers were busy organizing volunteers to hit the streets of four New Hampshire cities this weekend to spread the Warren message.
"The plan is for us to build a campaign, to show Senator Warren that if she does decide to get into the race, there is a ready-made structure here in New Hampshire and Iowa," Ehrenberg said. "We're going to build an organization that is ready to go it she decides to run for president."...
http://news.yahoo.com/liberals-lure-elizabeth-warren-white-house-race-194128727.html
2/13/2015
MANCHESTER, N.H. (Reuters) - The scene in the New Hampshire office is one common to any nascent U.S. presidential campaign in the state that holds the country's first primary contest: Young staffers peck away at laptops and unpack boxes of signs with their candidate's name.
But the Democrat they are working for, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, adamantly denies plans to seek the presidency.
...MoveOn.org, which wants to see Warren in the race and her ideas heard, is a political powerhouse with a grass-roots organization that helped elect and re-elect President Barack Obama, including his long and hard-fought battle with Clinton for the Democratic nomination in 2008. Democracy for America has its own strong pedigree, dating back to Vermont Democrat Howard Dean's 2004 presidential run.
"We believe that she would be the strongest candidate in the general election," said Kurt Ehrenberg, a veteran political operative who is heading up the Run Warren Run operation in New Hampshire. "Our job is not only to convince Senator Warren to get into the race, it's to focus the race on these issues."
At Run Warren Run's Manchester office, Ehrenberg and three young staffers were busy organizing volunteers to hit the streets of four New Hampshire cities this weekend to spread the Warren message.
"The plan is for us to build a campaign, to show Senator Warren that if she does decide to get into the race, there is a ready-made structure here in New Hampshire and Iowa," Ehrenberg said. "We're going to build an organization that is ready to go it she decides to run for president."...
http://news.yahoo.com/liberals-lure-elizabeth-warren-white-house-race-194128727.html
Wow, there are lots of people outside of DU who are hopeless dreamers!!!!!
And so is she!!
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A fearless dreamer. 
I'm right there with ya!