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" There was a lot of good news for Elizabeth Warren&amp;#039;s campaign over the weekend. A couple of new polls came out that showed her having moved into some kind of lead over Scott Brown, most likely because of her bravura performance at what is now universally thought of as a bravura convention, especially by comparison to the one that had staggered around Tampa the week before. The first of them showed her up by six, which I dismissed almost immediately on the grounds that a) I&amp;#039;d never heard of the poll before, and b) a six-point lead would be something like an 11-point turnaround in a statewide race in which nothing much else had occurred between the two polling periods. The only way a swing like that makes sense is if Willard Romney&amp;#039;s threadbare support in the Commonwealth has unravelled entirely \u2014 which, I admit, is a distinct possibility, but not one that I&amp;#039;ve noticed yet. (On the other hand, that poll&amp;#039;s true value may be that its numbers did draw a decent-sized OMIGAWD! from various pundits.) But the PPP poll that showed her leading by two points \u2014 a seven-point bump in a little more than a month \u2014 makes a lot more sense. Warren&amp;#039;s speech at the convention was well-received, whereas Brown stayed away from Tampa like plague had broken out there. Sooner or later, he&amp;#039;s going to get boxed into admitting that, yes, he is a Republican. In addition, a superb piece by Sally Jacobs in The Boston Globe should have put to rest forever the nothingburger of a story about Warren&amp;#039;s Native American ancestry. (Short answer: a lot of people in Warren&amp;#039;s family believed it to be true, largely because there&amp;#039;s not a little evidence to support it.) And, most significant of all, Scott Brown has released a new ad in which he complains that Elizabeth Warren is picking on him. (Early in the campaign, the two agreed that there would be no outside money used to slag each other, an arrangement that by and large has held, despite what I think of it, which is not much. However, it did guarantee that the first candidate who felt a their fee-fee to be injured would have solid ground for the inevitable whining. Step right up. senator.) She&amp;#039;s managed to find her feet as a candidate. Her new ads are much better than her earlier ones, and she has ignored admirably the off-stage carping from various Hibernian prostate cases who were a big noise hereabouts in the late 1970&amp;#039;s. (Bear this in mind going forward. There are a lot of Penis-Americans here in the Commonwealth who are both Democrats and don&amp;#039;t cotton to ladies being elected.) All she needs to do now is continue to be who she is, and remind the voters, over and over again, that Scott Brown is a member of a political party that has lost its buttons, and that the presidential nominee of that party now has been completely exposed as the kind of guy who&amp;#039;d roll blind men for their pencils. First of the four debates is Thursday night. Ought to be some clarifying to come afterwards. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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