{"id":55,"date":"2019-03-01T16:12:53","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T21:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drjonathancummings.com\/blog\/?p=55"},"modified":"2019-03-01T16:12:59","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T21:12:59","slug":"elizabeth-warren-ppc-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drjonathancummings.com\/blog\/prospective-presidential-candidates\/2019\/03\/elizabeth-warren-ppc-3\/55\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Warren PPC #3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I took me a little while to get past the routine &#8211; here&#8217;s my story, so here&#8217;s the issues I care about, thing &#8211; but despite that I found Elizabeth Warren to be a very powerful voice for action. I understand why she draws an eager crowd, and I was excited to be a part of her crowd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The difficultly that I think Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and others running on a similar platform will have, is it is the platform that we have been hearing about for a while now, and without much else to counter it. Honestly Trump and the Republicans don\u2019t have a real platform, and I don\u2019t think Hillary Clinton presented much of one either. \u00a0(I\u2019m not trying to start a debate there, just laying out how I see the status of things). That has made the Sanders platform the loudest platform in the room for a while. Many voters are already excited about that message, but it will take work to maintain that excitement, and draw those that haven\u2019t yet adopted that message in.\u00a0 I think if it is doable Elizabeth Warren has the energy and passion to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You may disagree with her policies, but I don\u2019t think anyone\ncould question Elizabeth Warren\u2019s passion.&nbsp;\nIt takes more than just a good applause line to get multiple standing\novations in just a ~20-minute speech.&nbsp; It\nprobably takes a bit more to do so in response to town hall questions and that\nhappened too.&nbsp; I think this came down to\npeople not just liking the message, but also the messenger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the more interesting responses came to a question about\nhow to be bipartisan in Washington, DC.&nbsp; Her\nexample was hearing aids, in which she wrote a bill and got bipartisan support\nunder the radar, namely to avoid starting the spin machine.&nbsp; But she was clear that that is not a\nuniversal approach, there are times so fight loudly and head on as well, and that\nshe does both, and is eager to read the situation and act accordingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I also got excited that she noted that she values scientific\ninput when collecting facts related to policy making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I stuck around after to get my question in, worded something\nlike, \u201cHow will you, and your staff make decisions, particularly in the case of\nsome new issue arising?\u201d&nbsp; Her response\nfocused on her guiding principles.&nbsp;\nNamely, asking how it fits into the current system.&nbsp; Does it help those that need help, or does it\nfavor the few?&nbsp; That is, she approaches\nthings from \u201cfirst principals\u201d and then gets into details and values the\ndiscussions with her staff to develop and craft solutions.&nbsp; So, she didn\u2019t use decision analysis\nterminology, but there is some focus on strategic objectives as a guide to all\nproblems, and a search for creative alternatives.&nbsp; I followed up by saying I hope she includes\ndecision scientists on her staff, which she got excited about, saying, \u201cAbsolutely,\nI\u2019m really getting into decision science\u201d, or something with similar meaning\nindicating that the term isn\u2019t jargon to her and she values the perspective\nthat approach offers.&nbsp; So solid points on\nthat front from her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Summarizing:\u00a0 Very Strong Tier 2, maybe Tier 1 once I\u2019ve evaluated more candidates. I\u2019ve quickly come to really like Andrew Yang.\u00a0 If I hadn\u2019t meet Andrew Yang already, Elizabeth Warren would be where Andrew Yang is to me right now.\u00a0 I will happily work for both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ranking of those I\u2019ve meet so far:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Tier 1: Andrew Yang<\/li><li><\/li><li>Tier 2: Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders*<\/li><li>Kamala Harris<\/li><li>Tier 3: Cory Booker<\/li><li>Tier 4: Tulsi Gabbard<\/li><li>Tier 5: tbd<\/li><li>Tier Nope: tbd<\/li><li>*(Based on past meetings, not 2020 events, and w\/o the decision-making question response)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Expected distribution of candidates is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Tier 1: 1 or 2<\/li><li>Tier 2: ~3<\/li><li>Tier 3: ~1\/4 of remaining<\/li><li>Tier 4: ~1\/4 of remaining<\/li><li>Tier 5: ~1\/4 of remaining<\/li><li>Tier Nope: ~1\/4 of remaining<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took me a little while to get past the routine &#8211; here&#8217;s my story, so here&#8217;s the issues I care about, thing &#8211; but despite that I found Elizabeth Warren to be a very powerful voice for action. 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