Who Elizabeth Warren helped and who she couldn't

[ProSense]

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Warren hit the trail for Democratic candidates across the map this year, in deep-blue states like Oregon and red ones like West Virginia and Kentucky. She spoke about economic populism issues such as the minimum wage, fixing student-debt problems, and expanding Social Security, a message that worked in states across the ideological spectrum.

While Republicans immediately jumped on both President Obama and Hillary Clinton as the major losers of the night, Warren appeared to have a better track record in the races where she personally campaigned for candidates.

Plenty of candidates whom Warren campaigned for, including Martha Coakley in Warren's home state of Massachusetts, lost their races Tuesday: Warren backed many of the same Democrats in tight races that other top party surrogates did, and Democratic hopefuls Alison Lundergan Grimes in Kentucky and Natalie Tennant in West Virginia, for example, lost by huge margins.

But progressives tout the easy victories for other Warren-endorsed Democrats, including Sens. Al Franken of Minnesota, Jeff Merkley of Oregon, and Brian Schatz of Hawaii, as proof that Warren's policies are successful on the ballot. (Those candidates were all heavy favorites anyway, so it's a stretch to assign Warren responsibility for their victories, but the correlation—at least—is there.)

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http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/elizabeth-warren-s-supporters-see-vindication-in-dems-2014-debacle-20141105

Senator Warren also campaigned heavily for Jeanne Shaheen (won) and Mark Udall (lost).

She helped candidates who sounded more like her, but she couldn't help a bad candidate or another who contradicted her message.

Unity sells.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. "She helped candidates who sounded more like her"

So basically, candidates who sounded like they wanted to join the 'Elizabeth Warren wing' of the party did well, and those who just tried to leech off her without at least trying to sound like her failed.

One might think that Warren herself showing up to stump wouldn't even be necessary, as long as candidates agreed with her messages and made sure voters knew it.

Embrace economic fairness and populism and win.

[LondonReign2]

2. +1,000

It ain't "unity" that sells, it's the policies

[ProSense]

3. "It ain't 'unity' that sells, it's the policies"

GOP policies don't sell, but they kicked ass because they dressed up teabaggers to look like they all belong to the same social club.

People don't like contradicting messages. Progressive policies are big winners, and even this election proved that. Democrats could likely see huge wins by combining progressive policies and a unified message.

Again, people don't like contradicting messages.

[LondonReign2]

4. And the conservative dems dressed themselves up to look like Republicans

They ran AWAY from Democratic policies. Grimes made herself out to be a gun shootin', coal lovin', jesus fearin' independent who couldn't even say who she voted for. Udall should have had a clear path in Colorado but he too refused to actually say he was for Democratic policies.

The only contradicting messages that hurt us were nominal Dems sounding like they wished they were Repubs.

[ProSense]

5. Seems like you agree with me. n/t