Article snippet: MOUNT VERNON, IOWA — Pumped-up Iowans wearing “Warren Has a Plan for That” T-shirts stood and clapped as the spritely senator jogged past them, her pink cardigan streaming behind her, and then fell to a hush as she grabbed the microphone. But before Elizabeth Warren talks about her plans, she talks about her past — at least, some of it. “So, I was born and raised in Oklahoma,” Warren told her supporters in a sun-dappled backyard in Eastern Iowa on Friday, launching into the story of her father’s sudden heart attack that forced her mother to get a minimum-wage job at Sears to pay the mortgage. The senator from Massachusetts has soared to the top of the pack in this early-voting state — she had policy proposals and a robust grass-roots organization. But many supporters in Iowa cite her compelling personal story, and not just her plans, as what has kept them coming back for more. “I think it’s great that she gets it and she has compassion for all of her constituents because she’s been there on all the levels,” said Sherene Hansen Player, 50, a full-time mom and former Republican who was waiting to take a photo with Warren after her speech. “She’s very relatable.” That’s not a word that voters in Iowa would be expected to use for a millionaire Ivy League professor. But Warren rarely if ever mentions her lengthy career on the faculty at Harvard Law School. Instead, she stresses the early parts of her biography in interactions with voters — particularly growing up i... Link to the full article to read more