Elizabeth Warren's 'Harvard Problem'

The Boston Globe today explores what The Harvard Crimson has called U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren's "Harvard Problem." The issue is that being a Harvard professor may impress academics, but Republicans hope to use the Cambridge connection to suggest that she is out of touch with voters. Last month the National Republican Senatorial Committee’s communications director called Warren “someone who has spent many years ensconced in the hallways of Harvard.’’ And a Twitter account linked to an adviser to Senator Scott Brown, whom she is challenging, called her a “typical Harvard elitist." If you doubt that such attacks can be effective, ask the academic who thought he could become prime minister of Canada.