Elizabeth Warren (5.7 percent): Sell. Like Biden, I think much of her positioning has to do with name recognition right now. Her problem is that there’s nothing she does that someone else doesn’t do better. Do you want someone outsider-y? O’Rourke is a better candidate. Do you want competence? You would probably look to Amy Klobuchar or perhaps Biden. Do you want a female candidate? Harris seems better positioned. Do you want a progressive? Why choose Warren when Sanders is willing to scream that the gears of the capitalist machine are oiled with the blood of the working class?
Her strategy is probably to wait it out, hoping the better-known candidates beat each other up, knock someone out, and open a lane for her. At that point, she could be formidable. It is also easy to see her catching fire in the debates. But the same could be said of many candidates at 1 percent. She’s got upside, but for now I don’t see her as more than a penny stock.
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