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Elizabeth Warren’s Radical Idea

She believes that if voters are given the opportunity to support an agenda that’s both coherent and compassionate, they will take it.
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Elizabeth Warren could well win the Democratic presidential nomination. An Iowa Starting Line poll from mid-August showed the Massachusetts senator with a commanding lead over the other candidates in the first caucus state. Her poll numbers are strong in New Hampshire, too. At the Iowa State Fair this month, she spoke to a crowd of thousands, and she has built one of the best organizing structures in the race. After a slow start, her fundraising is now robust, with 25 million in the bank, none of it from big-dollar donors. Voters wait in line for hours to take selfies with her, and press notes into her hand thanking her for her strong political commitments.

The rise of the progressive Warren seems like a natural development for a Democratic Party that has been shifting left in recent years, and that saw

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