Elizabeth Warren Aligns Senate Bid With Occupy

Elizabeth Warren is embracing the Occupy movement in her Massachusetts Senate campaign, shocking political analysts and creating a test case for Democrats seeking to regain Congress, the Los Angeles Times reports. "Every candidate's watching her because she's something of a phenomenon," one analyst says. "They're not so ready to embrace the protests." Little wonder, considering that just 24% of voters across the US support Occupy.

But her campaign for the Democratic nomination is thriving so far, raising more than $3 million in three months—with little of it from high finance. A Republican group has even shifted tactics, replacing ads that link her to Occupy with ones criticizing her management of a $700-billion bailout fund. And she's staying on message as she aims to unseat GOP Sen. Scott Brown: Americans have "watched the people who brought us the financial crisis walk away ... with their pockets stuffed with money," Warren says. "They know that's not right."