"Progressives turn from Obama to embrace Warren"

I cribbed that headline from a Washington Post story which reads:

[Elizabeth] Warren stumped in Kentucky late last month for Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes, who, like Tennant, is running for the Senate in a state easily won by Republican Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential election. Later this week, the freshman senator and former Harvard professor will be in Michigan supporting Democratic Senate candidate Gary Peters.

Warren also has visited Oregon, Ohio, Washington and Minnesota this year and has made dozens of e-mail solicitations on behalf of Democratic Senate colleagues — an unusually aggressive effort by a senator who has repeatedly denied interest in a presidential campaign. In Kentucky, Warren raised more than $200,000 for Grimes, who is running against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Two weeks ago I wrote when Warren’s tour was announced that “She’s looking an awful lot like a 2016 contender,” and it looks as though the people she needs responding to her like a contender are doing just that.

Somewhere, a pair of Clintons plots…