Interpreting Election Results

I’m normally a big fan of Jeffrey Toobin. He’s a good writer, he has an excellent ability to explain complicated legal matters in everyday language, and he tends to avoid the hyper-partisanship that passes for analysis so often these days. But I have to say, he got one wrong today. Toobin has a piece on Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren in the New Yorker, in which he asserts the following:

“Warren is neither a Clintonesque triangulator nor an Obamaesque conciliator. She is a thro...