Will Elizabeth Warren jump into U.S. Senate race?

[jpak]

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2011/07/elizabeth-warren-massachusetts-senate-race-scott-brown/1?csp=34news

Now that President Obama has passed over Elizabeth Warren to head a new consumer protection agency she helped create, will the Harvard law professor run for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts?

That's the question since Obama over the weekend appointed former Ohio attorney general Richard Cordray as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency that Warren helped shepherd since its creation through the major Wall Street overhaul law known as Dodd-Frank.

"I would love it if she were interested in joining the race. I would talk to her and encourage her in a heartbeat," John Walsh, Massachusetts Democratic Party chairman, told The Boston Globe last week.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid reportedly has talked to Warren about running for the Senate.

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[nevergiveup]

1. There would be huge amounts of money used against

her candidacy and it is always difficult to beat an incumbent. Brown's approval numbers in Mass are surprisingly high. Does anyone think she would have a chance?

[Jackpine Radical]

2. So, is there anyone on the horizon with a BETTER chance?

Warren has high name recognition & stellar approval among Democrats.

[theophilus]

3. Nope. She has had an education in what U.S. politics are like. She is no fool. n/t