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President Obama's nomination of former Ohio AG Richard Cordray to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau raises the question of what will become of Elizabeth Warren, who had played a leading role in designing the CFPB.

A number of commentators are suggesting that she will challenge Scott Brown for the Senate in Massachusetts, as Democrats have few other strong candidates. But setting aside the fact that Brown remains popular in Massachusetts, it's an open question whether Warren would be a good campaigner. She's widely regarded as a "progressive hero," but mostly because she, perhaps by default, has been the standard-bearer for the anti-bank sentiment of the left wing. In a presidential election year, though, a Senate race won't be decided by the frustrations of the netroots on one issue.

Could Warren appeal to Massachusetts voters on a wide range of issues? The early indications are that she wouldn't be much more convincing than Martha Coakley was:

Even in her role as would-be super-regulator, though, Warren has not shown a winning politician's ability to think on her feet:

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Oldefarte| 7.18.11 @ 4:12PM

She could always run for DOG CATCHER in Georgia!!!!!!!!!

PattyMor| 7.18.11 @ 4:27PM

Well Scotty will not be getting my dollars to help him run for the Senate. His Dodd Frank vote was a vote for statism and I'm not financing any part of his run.

R Martin| 7.19.11 @ 8:39AM

Wise. Dodd-Frand is at least as disasterous as Obamacare, and any Republican who supported it should be dumped. Our economy is based on capitalism, and capitalism requires a strong, vibrant and flexible financial sector. Leftists are trying to turn the finance sector into a conglomeration of utilities.

Willis| 7.19.11 @ 8:46AM

Everything about Warren makes my skin crawl. She oozes the attitude and arrogance of the far left in her mission to control the lives of others. It's evident just from looking at her. Same with Ben Bernanke. No bearded economist should even be allowed in the front door of the Fed.

American.Serf| 9.21.11 @ 10:51AM

Elizabeth Warren offers a cultural demographic viewpoint that a majority of the USA shares, yet is lacking from the thieves on Wall Street and now from the US Supreme Court .... she is a Sunday School teacher.

WASPS have become strangely obsolete in the USA policy making positions even though we were instrumental in building this nation.