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If you wish to know why Elizabeth Warren is so popular in the Democratic Party, it is simply because you can hear, see and feel the passion she has for issues and her voice is mostly consistent on all of them.  She shows many how we can disagree without being disagreeable and she makes Democrats feel that even those closely to her would not be able to sway her from the task she has to represent not just her state but this nation as a whole.  That ladies and gentlemen is what you call leadership and that was sorely missing from this crop of Democrats in these years mid-term elections. Republicans will swear it was all about Obama and that is a lie because if Obama had been on the ballot, Democrats would have rode his coat tails and easily won.  Obama was not on the ballot.  Minimum wage, a woman’s right to choose, voting rights, immigration, healthcare, pay equity, jobs, and gay rights was.  So why did these not carry Democrats to victory, simply because the...

Some people are still wondering just what this election is all about.  Many do not see the advantages that they have because for some reason the nation as a whole recovering does not appeal to them as much as how they are recovering.  For some it’s like a slap in the face that when this economy was going over the edge, we all felt it in our hearts and we all reached out to do our part to keep it from going completely over.  Now that it is doing better and even better than those who knew even thought it would, America is still broiled in this confusion of wrong direction or right direction.  People please remember we are not supposed to nor are we designed to agree with every decision made by those we hired to govern but to not embrace the wins as much as we choose to acknowledge the loses is ludicrous.  This mid-term is much more important than many wish us to see.  It is the difference between where we were and where we are.  It is the difference...