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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it's a good attack line on Warren, maybe not so much Bernie. Why is a politician attacking an opponent so shocking to you?[/quote]
Why is it a good attack on Warren but not Sanders?[/quote]

Because she comes off as more "elitist" than Bernie does. It's reflected in their core voting bases; Sanders more working class, Warren DCUM college-educated wives lol.[/quote]

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Yeah Warren’s background is anything but elitist. [/quote]
Let’s give the PP the benefit of the doubt. Maybe she or he genuinely doesn’t know?[/quote]

I'm that PP. Nope she can come across as elitist and it can be effective to cast her as such. Harvard, professor/academia, "I have a plan", "I know better than you", schoolmarmy/didactic speaking tone, government bureaucrat is always the answer. It could be politically effective to cast her as such. It just needs to stick; doesn't need to tell the full story. Biden has trotted out the same attack.

Bernie just comes across as angry old man and I don't see charges of elitism sticking to him as much. [/quote]
You are right.

It is super duper elitist to grow up basically working class in Oklahoma with a janitor dad and three brothers who served in the military, to marry and drop out of college at 19, to have a baby at 22 and return to a commuter college and almost drop out again due to a lack of affordable childcare, to go to a public law school, to divorce because your spouse doesn’t support your working, to work your way up through academia to teach at Harvard, to be the foremost advocate for bankruptcy reform, and to found the CFPB. You’re right. Very elitist. No ordinary person can relate to any of that.[/quote]

Did you not read? It's about the efficacy of the attack line, not the reality. In politics, perception is reality. Don't be so sensitive.
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I’m not sensitive, friend. I just like facts.[/quote]

Politics may not be your game then, my friend.[/quote]
It’s not my game. It’s my job.[/quote]

Then you should know about how "facts" work in politics. Look at what happened to Kerry vs. Bush. Perception is reality, my dear friend.[/quote]
Tell us which Democrat you support, then. And tell us why you don’t want us to talk about the subject of the thread.[/quote]

The subject is what is the matter with Pete. What is the matter with him is that he is trying to differentiate himself from the Warren/Sanders wing of the party and using this free college issue curry favor with the more midwest/working class elements of the party and test out the elitism attack line. As others in this thread have pointed out, it could backfire given his own background, but he's trying it.[/quote]
He’s not being consistent, though, or Lis isn’t. They say kids of millionaires and billionaires shouldn’t go to college free. But the cutoff is set at a HHI of $100,000. Then they say there will be “subsidies” for families earning more than $100K but less than $150K. Then they say that 80% of families will get free college. It’s wildly complicated, and differentiators should be clear and simple.

Pete’s competition is not Warren and Sanders. It’s Biden, Klobuchar, and now Bloomberg. He’s picked the wrong tack, I think.
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