Dems are doomed, unless you appoint this obscure professor to a board no one has heard of

Here’s a guy who really understands politics:

Within hours and possibly minutes I expect the president will name Elizabeth Warren to lead the new consumer protection agency, and if he does, the Democratic base will erupt and turn out to vote in far greater numbers than any current poll suggests.

Yup. We all know why Al Gore did so well in 2000 — it was because of “What about Dingell-Norwood?”

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