Harvard professor and Democratic
candidate for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, Elizabeth Warren, appeared on MSNBC’s
“The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell” on Thursday night to attack former Bush
advisor Karl Rove for his organization’s efforts to discredit her in her campaign against Sen. Scott Brown.
She said Rove’s conservative PAC,
Crossroads GPS, in association with the investor class on Wall Street, is
suspiciously focused on her and her Senate campaign in these early stages.
Warren said that Rove is employing a “kitchen sink” smear campaign to discredit
her.
A Crossroads ad from November attacks
Warren’s efforts to position herself as a corporate regulator and says that she
worked with the Obama Administration to orchestrate the bank bailouts when she
was authorized to oversee the creation of a consumer watchdog agency.
That 30-second spot is part of a four
ad anti-Warren blitz backed up by a $1.1 million ad buy (part of which targets
Democratic candidates and incumbents in Missouri, Montana and Nebraska).
So far, the effort to discredit Warren
has not been working. A poll from The University
of Massachusetts-Lowell/Bostonof the U.S. Senate race in the
Bay State shows Warren up 7 points over Brown, 49 to 42 percent. That poll’s
margin of error is +/- 5 points. A poll from last week conducted by U.
Mass-Amherst showed Warren with a 4 point lead over Brown, 43 to 39 percent.
Republican Sen. Scott Brown was
elected in January 2010 to complete the Senate term of late Sen. Ted Kennedy.
He defeated Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley 52 to 47 percent.
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