Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren

What if Elizabeth Warren had ran for president as well? With higher poll numbers and more name recognition before running, would she have done better than Bernie?
 
What if Elizabeth Warren had ran for president as well? With higher poll numbers and more name recognition before running, would she have done better than Bernie?
I think Liz would have been decisively ahead of Clinton by now; that said she doesn't seem to have any interest in being President. Or perhaps she's waiting until 2020? ;)
 

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I actually think she'd do worse because of her lack of campaign skills and staff. Remember she only just ran her first election and had problems against Scott Brown. She also doesn't have the depth of political history that is currently driving Sanders either. And she's kind of single issue much more than Sanders, because she is primarily focus on the banking industry where she specializes; the reason she's not running is because of all that and knowing that going up against the Clinton machine is not going to end well for her, she doesn't have a safe seat to return to. Besides she is able to do EXACTLY what her primary mission is as head of the banking committee now, the presidency would only distract her from that.
 
What if Elizabeth Warren had ran for president as well? With higher poll numbers and more name recognition before running, would she have done better than Bernie?
I think she would. I also don't think Sanders would have run against her - a lot of his language before the race was along the lines of "I'll run if no other Progressive voice is going to be in the race". I think Warren would beat Clinton; she'd get almost all of Sanders' support and make serious inroads into Clinton's.
 
I actually think she'd do worse because of her lack of campaign skills and staff. Remember she only just ran her first election and had problems against Scott Brown. She also doesn't have the depth of political history that is currently driving Sanders either. And she's kind of single issue much more than Sanders, because she is primarily focus on the banking industry where she specializes; the reason she's not running is because of all that and knowing that going up against the Clinton machine is not going to end well for her, she doesn't have a safe seat to return to. Besides she is able to do EXACTLY what her primary mission is as head of the banking committee now, the presidency would only distract her from that.

I actually agree with this. If Bernie Sanders is Robert Kennedy to Hillary's Hubert Humphrey, than Elizabeth Warren is the Eugene McCarthy. Very popular with a similar crowd, but lacking the same ability to whip up a crowd. If they ran in the same primary, as the question applies, I imagine they would drown each other out and make it much more easy for Hillary to get nominated. She definitively wins Iowa and New Hampshire. If Elizabeth Warren runs and Bernie doesn't...well, Hillary still wins Iowa and still loses New Hampshire.
 
What if Elizabeth Warren had ran for president as well? With higher poll numbers and more name recognition before running, would she have done better than Bernie?

A good buddy of mine said that Liz Warren's problem is that she talks to people like a college professor. This would be really bad for her after the early primaries especially in the south. Plus that whole being a woman thing. Some people say there's sexism against Hillary Clinton and some disagree but if Warren was in we'd know for sure.
 
What if Elizabeth Warren had ran for president as well? With higher poll numbers and more name recognition before running, would she have done better than Bernie?
I would say so. She has many similar opinions to Bernie, but was also probably more established than he was when the campaign got going. Not only that, but she would also have a better chance of making inroads into Hilary's support than he does, at least in terms of rhetoric and the way she describes herself, more moderate than Sanders (wouldnt scare away people who might be uncomfortable voting for a socialist) , and would likely be perceived to be more electable than Bernie is now. And maybe a small amount of support will come her way from Hilary because the first woman president thing applies to both of them.
 
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