Elizabeth Warren has some serious mojo working right now. She hasn’t even captured the   Democratic nomination for next year’s U.S. Senate race, and already she’s been thrown into the mix for president in 2016.

Today’s New York Times features a David Leonhardt  thumbsucker headlined, “The 2016 Election, Already Upon Us.” It includes this:

A plausible newcomer for 2016, Democrats say, is Elizabeth Warren, who advised Mr. Obama on the creation of a consumer-protection bureau for financial products and is now running to be a senator from Massachusetts (against Scott P. Brown, the incumbent and a Republican hero). She can deliver a punchy case for economic fairness, which has already made her a YouTube sensation. Obviously, she first would need to unseat Mr. Brown.

Ya think?

Here’s the opening day lineup according to the Times:

Deval Patrick gets a little love, too, but only in a gubernatorial laundry list:

Several other governors — Deval L. Patrick of Massachusetts; Tim Kaine, another former Virginia governor; Christine O. Gregoire of Washington; John Hickenlooper of Colorado;Jay Nixon of Missouri — may also be tempted.

And getting Mentioned is a good start.