For US Senator Elizabeth Warren, staying out of the race between US Senator Bernie Sanders and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton is the easiest path. But will she regret it?

Even if you take Warren at her word — that she generally dislikes the game of today’s politics — there have to be moments when she wonders what would have happened had she taken her populist progressive message and applied it to a ready-made populist progressive Democratic campaign.

That Democratic campaign appears to be headed toward an inflection point on Super Tuesday, when 11 states will vote on a nominee. Among the states that are voting are Oklahoma, where Warren grew up; Texas, where she lived and taught law for many years; and Massachusetts, the state she represents in the US Senate.