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In case you've been hiding under some coats this week, liberals are keyed up on the idea of recruiting Elizabeth Warren to run for president in 2016. Warren showed why in a speech on the Senate floor Wednesday, protesting the inclusion of a measure that would loosen restriction on derivative trading in a $1 trillion spending bill Congress is expected to approve this week.

It's worth watching the entire speech -- it's less than eight minutes from beginning to end -- but if you are either super busy or an easily distracted millennial, pay particular attention to the first 49 seconds of this clip.

Here's the key line: "I come to the floor today to ask a fundamental question -- who does Congress work for? Does it work for the millionaires, the billionaires, the giant companies with their armies of lobbyists and lawyers? Or does it work for all of us?"

Warren's anti-Wall Street, populist rhetoric, heavily focused on reducing or eliminating income inequality, sits at the core of the Democratic base's belief system at the moment. In a recent NBC-Wall Street Journal poll, almost six in 10 Democrats (58 percent) agreed with the idea that economic and political systems are stacked against them. As WSJ's Neil King notes, that sense of a rigged system is far from a Democrats-only belief;"51 percent of Republicans; 55 percent of whites; 60 percent of blacks; 53 percent of Hispanics; as well as decent majorities of every age and professional cluster, including blue-collar workers, white-collar workers and retirees," all hold it, according to King.

But, the sense of not only a widening gap between haves and have-nots but also a sort of a built-in institutional unfairness to it runs extremely strong within the Democratic base. That goes double when the very likely nominee for the party in 2016 is neither a) a populist or b) anti-Wall Street.

Speeches like the one Warren gave Wednesday will just fuel chatter about why she should challenge Hillary Rodham Clinton in two years. And she knows it.

Chris Cillizza writes The Fix, a politics blog for the Washington Post. He also covers the White House.

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For all the Trudeaumania redux surrounding the federal Liberals since Justin Trudeau took the helm, the party has had some very old-school problems around its nomination process.

Trudeau has been accused of going back on his promise to allow open fights for riding nominations and instead getting in his favoured picks. There have beenhard feelings in some, including the Ottawa-area riding ofOrlans, where former general Andrew Leslie was acclaimed, and in Brantford-Brant, the key southern Ontario battleground where a hurried nomination vote resulted in the only registered candidate being acclaimed.

Bitterness now surrounds the likely coronation of a candidate in the B.C. riding Vancouver South, where the other main contender pulled out of the race ahead of this Fridays nomination, leaving the field clear for another ex-military man whom Trudeau apparently prefers.

[ Related:Andrew Leslies Liberal nomination win draws protest ]

The situation in the riding is complicated by a layer of ethnic politics as Sikh factions within the Liberal party have battled over the nomination.

It seems likely former Lt.-Col. Harjit Singh Sajjan, the first Sikh to command a Canadian Forces regiment, will be acclaimed at this Fridays nomination meeting for the riding, which has swung back and forth between the Liberals and Conservatives for most of the last 100 years.

Sajjan was expected to have vigorous competition for the nomination from Vancouver businessman Barj Dhahan. But he abruptly withdrew late last month despite having signed up thousands of new Liberal members to support his bid.

"This campaign has gone on longer than I initially expected and the Liberal Party has a preferred candidate," Dhahan said in a statement on his web site.

"After much thought, I have decided that I will not seek this nomination, and will instead support the Liberal Party of Canadas efforts in other ways."

Sikh factions said to be involved in Liberal infighting

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State Liberals have not learned from Tony Abott's woes, Labor Leader Bryan Green says.

Bryan Green

IF THERE is one lesson to be taken from Tony Abbott's plummeting political fortunes, it is that people cannot stand governments that say one thing before the election and either fail to deliver, or worse, do the exact opposite of what they promised.

I acknowledge that Labor still has a lot of work to do to rebuild trust with the community.

We got the message loud and clear from our election loss.

But the difference between Labor and the current Tasmanian Liberal government is that we are listening and learning from our own experiences.

Will Hodgman, on the other hand, doesn't appear to be listening at all.

In fact, he seems intent on repeating the mistakes of Tony Abbott and the recently deposed Liberal government in Victoria.

There were two glaring examples of the Tasmanian Liberals' duplicity during last week's government business enterprise hearings.

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