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Elizabeth Warren

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2. Mouthing a few carefully chosen phrases about populism isn't the same thing as embracing it.

Reply to JeffHead (Original post)

Fri Feb 21, 2014, 06:30 PM

Feb 2014

At this point, for most politicians, "economic populism" is a likely nothing more than a thin wrapping around the same old ideas.

As I've said before, candidates who can credibly embrace a populist message will be highly electable in 2014 and 2016. The trick for us is to figure out who means it and who's making empty promises.

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