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donors has resigned, small-donor funding operations no doubt not his strong point. And the media have given almost all their news-generating attention to "new" faces, so as an old one she has the expected neglect so far.
But she has $10 million in the bank from her senate run and has taken in another $7 and is virtually guaranteed a place on the debate stage.
More, she already has the nationally known name others are having to create and a genuine record of big achievement money can't create, and of just the right kind. She's first and biggest out with a whole list of progressive reforms she doesn't need focus groups to decide on because her smart progressivism is the real thing.
So all in all she's a very redoubtable candidate, far more than a lot of people realize right now. But they will.
She's already on record for using antitrust to break up too-big-for-our-own-good corporations and create real competition in banking, health and pharm, telecom, and retail. And there's a lot more in plain sight.
