Would Warren being a Reagan-Bush voter hurt her among Democrats?

[Kraxner]

No difference because she's going to lose anyway against the best GOP candidate.

[Kraxner]

No difference because she's going to lose anyway against the best GOP candidate.

She may not even make it past the primary.

She made it clear a lot of times that she wasn't going to run. If she wants to run then she should try if Hillary declines to run in 2016 due to Obama's poor approval ratings. And in 2020 even though its likely she'll lose anyway.

[Kraxner]

No. This won't even come up during the campaign.

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This -why would Hillary want to open this can of worms considering her own well-known history as a former Republican Goldwater girl? 

meh i really don't see this as bad as the iraq war vote. Considering doing a Zell Miller/Charlie Crist type speech that "I changed my party because they went too far to the X" probably will give them a ton of applause.


However given that Goldwater is not a recognizable towards the public anymore compared to Reagan it could be more heartbreaking for the base compared to saying they supported goldwater.

[Kraxner]

It probably won't hurt.

Hillary's moved to the left from Bill Clinton's position as Governor of Arkansas, so it would be tough for her to make an ideological purity argument.

Warren's convictions seem genuine, so it isn't a matter of flip-flopping.

It could help Warren with electability arguments. Who better to convert swing voters than someone who voted for Republicans?

If it didn't work for Crist and it didn't work for Specter, it's probably not going to work for Warren.

Both parties, the voters see party switching as literally crossing over from the allies into the nazi party.