News reports about Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren’s willingness to lie about being a Native American to get ahead seems to have left voters in the Bay State unfazed.
Although Warren claims to be 1/32 Cherokee, the blonde-haired, blue-eyed Senate candidate succeeded in getting Harvard University where she teaches to list her as a “Native American” for federal diversity purposes.
Her claims have attracted a firestorm with at least one Cherokee tribal group calling itself Cherokees Demand Truth From Elizabeth Warren denounced the Democrat’s claims and cynical attempt to use her minute ancestry for political gain.
And even amid the criticism, Warren continued to reaffirm the Native American claims that have won her the moniker of “Fauxcahontas” on some conservative blogs during an appearance on a Boston television station Friday.
According to The Daily Caller, Warren told the television station that she would be Massachusetts’s first Senator of Native American heritage if she beats incumbent Republican Sen. Scott Brown in the fall.
Polls suggest that Massachusetts voters are not paying any attention to efforts to highlight questions about Warren’s character. A poll conducted by Western New England University on June 2 found that Warren leads Brown 45 percent to 43 percent, well within the margin of error. And other polls show Brown in a statistical tie with Warren despite the “Fauxcahontas” flap.
And the state’s Democrats were not fazed by the controversy either, giving her 95.7 percent of the votes cast at the party’s convention over the weekend.
This reflects a wider problem for the GOP this fall because two Republicans who have won statewide office in Massachusetts in the past decade are on the ballot and trail their Democratic rivals. This is despite projections that the year could be rough for Democrats around the country.
Presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney, the state’s former governor, trails Barack Obama in Massachusetts by 20 points, according to Real Clear Politics.
