Mitt Romney, meet your fundraising match: Elizabeth Warren

July 9, 2012

FILE - In this June 2, 2012 file photo, Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren speaks in Springfield, Mass. Liberals have groused about President Barack Obama since he was elected, lamenting a lack of progress on issues they hold dear. Even so, most liberal voters are expected to vote for Obama in November over Republican Mitt Romney. But there's no guarantee that liberals, if they continue to be dissatisfied, will turn out to man phone banks and canvass neighborhoods this fall. His fundraising efforts could also take a hit. Their latest beef: that Obama needs to take the fight to Wall Street, much like Warren, the Democratic Senate nominee in liberal-leaning Massachusetts, who has built a national brand around the us-versus-them rhetoric that took root over the past year in the encampments of the Occupy Wall Street movement. For Obama, taking up the Occupy cause as overtly as that carries risks in the dozen or so competitive states that will determine who wins the White House. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)Elizabeth Warren, the Democrat who is running for Scott Brown's U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts, is nearly keeping pace with Mitt Romney's astronomical fundraising levels, according to the latest figures released Monday by each campaign. If the measurement is money raised per voter, rather than total dollars, that is. In the month of June, according to [...]


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