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STA TISTCALLY SPEAKING,
IT WAS A STUNG REBOUND FOR
CICILLINE.
HE WAS DOWN BY 15 POINTS BY
REPUBLICAN CHALLENGER BY
BRENDAN DOHERTY IN THE
FEBRUARY POLL ABOUT ITS THE
WEEK.
SURVEY SAYS: CICILLINE UP
BY SIX POINTS.
44 TO DOHERTY'S 38.
INDEPENDENT DAVID VOGEL GETS
SIX POINTS.
THE SPREAD IS STILL WITHIN
THE MARGIN OF ERROR MAKING
OCTOBER THE MAKE-OR-BREAK
MONTH FOR BOTH CANDIDATES.
PLUS -- ONE DOWN, TWO TWO TO
GO IN THE 2012 PRESIDENTIAL
DEBATE.
REPUBLICAN PRIMARY MITT
ROMNEY WON THE NIGHT.
THIS WEEK ON "NEWSMAKERS,"
AN EXAMINATION OF THE LOCAL
AND THE NATIONAL CAMPAIGN
LAND CAPE WITH OUR POLITICAL
ROUNDTABLE.
WPRI.COM REPORTER TED NESI,
POLITICAL REPORTER FOR RHODE
ISLAND PUBLIC RADIO, IAN
DONNIS AND JOE FLEMING
ANALYTICAL CONSULTANT CARA
CROMWELL.
GOOD MORNING.
WELCOME TO "NEWSMAKERS."
AM TIM WHITE.
I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE FOR
JOINING ME TODAY.
TED, IAM, CARA, JOE, LOOKING
FOR TOWARD THIS.
GOOD MORNING.
GOOD MORNING.
ALL RIGHT BEFORE WE GET TO
THE CONGRESSIONAL RACE.
I WANT TO GO AROUND THE ROOM
ON THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE
THAT HAPPENED OORL CRIR THIS
WEEK.
WHO WON THAT DEBATE AROUND
THE ROOM, TED?
NOT JIM.
POOR JIM.
YEAH.
ROMNEY BUY A LONG SHOT.
ROMNEY EXCEEDED
EXPECTATION.
CARA?
ROMNEY THEN BIG BIRD.
ROMNEY DEFINITELY.
ALL RIGHT.
WE'LL GET TO IT IN A
MOMENT.
LET'S START FIRST WITH THE
FIRST CONGRESSIONAL RACE
BETWEEN REPUBLICAN BRENDAN
DOHERTY.
WERE YOU THE CAMPAIGN
MANAGER.
WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF
CICILLINE BEING ABLE TO NOT
ONLY CLOSE THE 15-POINT GAP
BUT SURPASS BRENDON DOHERTY
IN THE POLLS?
FIRST OF ALL, I HAVE TO
SAY.
THERE IS GOOD NEWS AND BAD
NEWS FOR BOTH CANDIDATES IN
THE POLL, OBVIOUSLY FOR
CICILLINE WHO IS AHEAD AND
NOVEMBER 6th.
THE BAD NEWS FOR HIM.
THINK MAY HAVE REACHED KIND
OF THE TOP OF THE NUMBER IF
YOU LOOK A THE
FAVORABILITY.
NOVEMBER 6th?
FOR DOHERTY, I THINK, HE
STILL HAS ROOM TO GROW.
HE IS A BIG CHUNKS OF PEOPLE
WHO DON'T KNOW HIM AND
FOLKS, FOLKS THAT ARE
UNDECIDE I THINK COULD GO
HIS WAY.
OBVIOUSLY WITH CICILLINE
BEING AT 44%.
THAT IS THE NUMBER.
10% ON THE SCREEN, 10% OF
THE VOTERS ARE UNDECIDED IN
THIS RACE.
YO, IS THAT ENOUGH OF
THINGS.
WHERE WE, IT IS.
IT IS ENOUGH.
HOWEVER KEEP IN MIND THE
DAVID.
HE IS GETTING 6%.
DAVID CICILLINE DOES NOT
NEED 50% OF THE VOTE TO
WITHIN THE ELECTION.
IF YOU GET UP TO 47 TO 48%
FINE.
ANYBODY BUT DAVID
CICILLINE VOTE, DAVID VOGEL
COULD DRAW FROM IT.
COMING FROM THAT.
DEMOCRATS WHO MAY SAY I
CANNOT VOTE FOR DAVE RID SO
I WORK FOR IT.
WAYS.
ALL RIGHT.
CARA, JUST BACK TO YOU,
BRIEFLY HERE.
SOMEONE WAS SAYING IT WAS A
MISTAKE FOR PREN DAN DOHERTY
NOT TO HIT THE AIRWAVES
TELEVISION EARLIER.
HE IS COMING OUT THIS WEEK
WITH SOME STUFF.
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
SHOULD VERY BEEN ON TV
EARLIER INTO I THINK MONDAY
MORNING QUARTERBACKS THAT
GUESS ON.
THAT GUESS ON.
GET A LOT OF PHONE CALLS.
YOU SHOULD HAVE DONE THIS.
YOU SHOULD HAVE DONE THAT.
CERTAINLY LOOKING BACK ON
IT, YOU WOULD SAY THAT
PERHAPS HE SHOULD HAVE LET
VOTERS GET TO KNOW HIM A
LITTLE BIT BETTER BUT THERE
WAS AN ASSUMPTION THAT
ANTHONY GEMMA, THERE WAS
GOING TO BE A HUGE PRIMARY.
HE WAS GOING TO RUN A REAL
CAMPAIGN.
THE AIRWAYS COULD BE CLOGGED
MONEY.
YOU KNOW, LIKE I SAID.
HE WOULD GET THE MONDAY
MORNING QUARTERBACKING.
WILL NOT SAY YES OR NO.
HE WERE.
IF HE HAD BEEN ON THE AIR
AND SPENT MONEY.
HE WOULD NOT HAVE THE MONEY
NEEDS NOW.
S WHAT THE TAKE?
I WOULD DISAGREE WITH CAR AS
MUCH AS WE RESPECT HER.
I THINK DOHERTY DID MISS AN
OPPORTUNITY TO HELP LAY THE
CAMPAIGN.
HE DIDN'T DO THE KIND OF
FIELD GOOD COMMERCIAL AFTER
THE GENERAL ELECTION ONCE
AERWAY AND I THINK HE SHOULD
OVERLOOK SOME OF THE
INSTITUTIONAL ADVANTAGES
THAT HAVE ENABLED CICILLINE
TO CLIMB QUIT A BIT IN THE
POLLS AS WE KNOW HE VOTERS
VOTED ALMOST 7% FOR
PRESIDENT OBAMA IN 2008 AND
THAT IS A TOUGH CHALLENGE TO
TICKET.
THINK DOHERTY LOST VALUABLE
TIME BY WAITING TO REALLY
GET GOING WITH THE AIR WAR.
THE WHOLE RINT IS A
COMPETITIVE RACE IS
PROVIDENCE AND QUESTIONS
ABOUT DAVID CICILLINE'S
HONESTY.
VOTERS HAVE NOT SEEN A TV AD
THAT BRINGS UP THE COMMENTS
THAT WERE SO DAMAGING.
LAST BRING.
MEMORIES.
THE HEADLINES, IT USED TO BE
HEADLINE.
EVERY NIGHT, WE MIGHT GO
BANKRUPT UNLESS I GET THIS.
NOW, WE ARE ON BETTER
TRACK.
NOW WE HAVE A NATIONAL RACE
IN THE HEADLINES BRINGING UP
BASIC DEMOCRATIC AND
REPUBLICAN DIFFERENTS WITH
GO TO HIS ADVANTAGE.
S PEOPLE TO SEE HIM AS
GENERIC DEMOCRAT.
THAT BRINGS US SOMETHING
THAT I WANTED TO ASK YOU.
I SAW IN THE REPORT THAT
SHAWN DALY FILE.
READ IT IN TED'S PIECE.
WERE YOU IMPRESSED HOW THEY
AROUND.
AS TED POINTED OUT.
BACK IN THE FEBRUARY POLL,
THE CONGRESSMAN WAS GETTING
HAMMERED BY HEADLINES OUT OF
PROVIDENCE.
THEN YOU FACTOR IN ROMNEY
AND THE 47% COMMENT THAT WAS
LEAD UP TO THIS POLL AND
THEN, BE A TO BE ANTHONY
GEMMA I THINK CUE ARGUE
ACTUALLY HELPED DAVID
CICILLINE.
I DON'T WANT TO TAKE ANY
MAN.
THE FOLKS HE HAS WORKING FOR
THEM AND THE CAMPAIGNING
THEY ARE DOING.
THOSE WERE ALL GIFTS FOR
WEREN'T THEY?
THEY WERE GIFTS AND WHAT
DAVID CICILLINE WANTED TO
DO.
DAVID CICILLINE IS HAVING
PROBLEMS WITH DEMOCRATIC
VOTERS.
AND GROUPS THAT NORMALLY
SUPPORT DEMOCRATS.
BACK HOME.
DAVID SISSY LIEN MY, ONCE HE
REALIZED GEMMA WAS IN THE A
FACTOR FOCUSED RIGHT ON
WASHINGTON.
DEMOCRAT VERSUS REPUBLICAN.
WANTED.
WHEN HE STARTED TO DO THAT,
RAR A A, ISN'T THAT THE RED
LOG ONTO SAY, LET'S GET ON
TV.
RECOVERING.
IT COULD HAVE BEEN.
ABSOLUTELY.
THERE IS ALWAYS THIS WAITING
FOR SOMETHING TO HAPPEN.
HAPPEN.
PASS.
I AM NOT GOING TO BE
CRITICAL OF THEM.
LIKE SAID, I KNOW WHAT IT I
LIKE TO BE THERE AND HAVE
PEN YOUR MONEY.
ALSO, YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED
MESSAGE.
WHEN YOUR MESSAGE IS JOBS
THE ECONOMY AND MOVING THE
COUNTRY FORWARD AND HOW WE
HAVE BEEN LOSING JOBS AND
RODE EYE LAINSD SUFFERING
FROM A BAD CHY, TURNING
AROUND AND RESPONDING TO
EVERY LITTLE BIT AND TAKING
IT CICILLINE.
THERE IS A LOT GOING ON.
CARA, LET'S SAY YOU ARE
WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE
TIM? WHERE WOULD YOU TO GO
WITHIN THE FLIES I HAD THE
SAME QUESTION.
I GOT ME.
HADN'T THOUGHT ABOUT THAT.
I THINK I WOULD GET BACK TO
THE JOBS AND THE ECONOMY
MESSAGE.
YOU DON'T WANT TO GO DONE
THE RAT HOLE TOO MANY TIMES
ISSUES.
WILL PICK YOU HERE.
WILL PICK YOU HERE.
THE CONTAPET RESPONSE TO
MESSAGE.
WE KNOW THAT RHODE ISLAND
VOTERS ARE PRIMARILY
CONCERNS ABOUT JOBS AND THE
ECONOMY, SO GET BACK TO THE
MESSAGE.
TALK ABOUT WHAT YOU WOULD DO
MOVING FORWARD?
NOW THE TIME?
ABSOLUTELY.
I AM ASTONISHED.
I CAN'T.
I MEAN, LOOK AT WHAT OBAMA
DID.
OH MAMA SHOULD BE SO MUCH
WEAKER.
HE IS LEAD BUYING TEN POINTS
IN OHIO BECAUSE HE SPENT THE
JUMP IN.
RY TO SAY THE MINUTE
SOMEBODY GOES NEGATIVE.
SHOE.
RIGHT.
THAT IS GREAT.
THAT IS COMING FROM YOU
ALL.
I THINK DOHERTY HAS TO DO
THAT.
CICILLINE HAS HIGH
UNFAVORRABILITIES.
DOHERTY HAD THE PRESTIGE
FROM THE FORM ARE CAREER
WITH THE STATE POLICE.
DOHERTY HELD A NEWS
CONFERENCE ON THURSDAY.
AS HE SAID AND LEGAL
CAREER, THAT IS TEN YEARS
THE PAST BUT DOES GO LUGE
THE NARRATIVE.
THE VOTE.
BACK IN AUGUST WHEN HE SAW
DETRUCT.
HE SHOULD HAVE CHANGED.
THE CAMPAIGN PLANS.
PLANS ARE ADJUSTABLE.
THEY NEEDED TO ADJUST THAT
BACK THEN TO TOP THE
MOMENTUM DAVID CICILLINE WAS
GETTING.
LIKE ON THIS ARGUMENT I
THINK IT IS EASY TO BE
CAMPAIGN.
YOU THINK HEAVY HEAD WINCE
AS A REPUBLICAN RUNNING IN
RHODE ISLAND THEY MADE THE
DISTRICT AS WE SEE IN THE
REKISS STRICTING THIS YEAR,
SO WE SHOULD NEVER UNDERET
CETERA MATE THE FACT THEY
WERE 15 POINTS AHEAD WAS
OUTLIER UNITSELF TO BE
YEAR.
IT DOES SEEM LIKE A MISSED
OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE KEPT IT
AT LEAST TIGHTER THAN
LETTING CICILLINE SWING IT
21 POINTS BY NOW.
AND WE MISSED ANYTHING
HERE? I MEAN, ONE THING WE
HAVE NOT TOUCHED ON WHICH
CONFERENCE YESTERDAY.
THE FOCUS IS ON WOMEN.
CLEARLY.
FROM BOTH CAMPAIGNS.
DAVID CICILLINE IS WINNING
IN WOMEN.
I WAS BRENDAN DOHERTY WHO
NEEDS TO CLOSE THAT GAP.
TRYING TO CLOSE THE FEMALE
GAP.
DAVID CICILLINE ENFORCING
WITH WOMEN AND OUR POLL WITH
ANTHONY GEMMA GETTING HUGE
LEADS WITH WOMEN, SO THE
FACT THAT DAVID IS GOING TRI
IS.
THAT WOULD BRING HIM TOLL
THE VICTORY.
AND RY TO SAY THAT AS A
WOMAN, I, I AM INSULTED THAT
THE IS TWO ISSUES,
CONTRACEPTIVES AND UND
ABORTIONS.
I CARE ABOUT JOB, ECONOMY, I
CARE ABOUT AFGHANISTAN, I
CARE ABOUT FOREIGN POLICY.
THERE IS A LOT OF OTHER
DIMENSIONS TO WOMEN AND THE
ONE TY MENTIONAL WOMEN VOTE
THINGS.
IT IS INSULTING.
I GOT TO BELIEVE THAT
BRANDON DOES HAVE ROOM TO
GROW BECAUSE HE IS A MULTI
FACETTED CANDIDATE WHEN
ISSUES.
38% OF THE WOMEN COULD NOT
DOHERTY.
YEAH.
WE WANT SAFE HIGHWAY.
WE WANT SAFE COMMUNITIES.
WE WANT SAFE SCHOOLS.
WE CAN COME BACK HERE.
PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE, LISTEN
KNOW JOKE, THE ONLY PEOPLE
WHO THOUGHT OBAMA WON WERE
THE REPLACEMENT REFS.
AND BOBBY VALENTINE.
DEBATED.
THE HIGHEST-RATED DEBATE
SINCE JAM MY CARTER MACHINE
RONALD REAGAN.
80MILLION PEOPLE.
THE CONSERVATIVE COLUMNIST
FOR "THE WALL STREET
JOURNAL" WROTE THE IMPACT OF
THE FIRST DEBATE IS GOING TO
BEING ABOUTER HAN WE KNOW.
THINKING.
IT IS GOING TO START SHOWING
UP IN POLLS INCLUDING THE
BATTLE GROUND MORE
DRAMATICALLY THAN WE GET.
WHOLE RACE IS IN PLAY
MAYBE?
I THINK WE HAVE TO SEE
FORCE.
YOU HAD REGOOD NIGHT.
WAS TALKING TO MY FATHER
MASSACHUSETTS.
OH, ITS OUR GOVERNOR AGAIN.
2002-2004.
A MODERATE FELLOW.
SOMEBODY WHO WANTS TO GET
THINGS DONE.
BUT HE HAS TO FIN A WAY TO
REINFORCE THAT MESSAGE.
HE WAS FIGHTING AGAINST THE
WORST VERSION OF OBAMA.
YOU GOT TO THINK THE
PRESIDENT IS GOING TO GET
THE HEATED IN THE GAME.
POLITICIAN.
HE APPEARED TO BE ONE THE
OTHER NIGHT.
WAY.
THAT IS ONE THING.
SORRY.
THE FOR MATH WAS TOUGH.
I THOUGHT THEY BOTH HAD A
STILL ON THE ECONOMY.
OKAY.
ECONOMY?
OF COURSE.
I THOUGHT IT WAS WEIRD
WHEN OBAMA WENT AND SAID,
THEY HAD SIMILAR THOUGHTS ON
OH.
MEDICARE.
RIGHT.
RIGHT.
THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN TOO
OFTEN.
SURE.
EYE STILL WONDER ARE IF A
LOT OF PEOPLE, HOW MUCH
ATTENTION THEY WERE PAYING.
I THINK ROMNEY OBVIOUSLY HAD
PERFORMANCE.
YOU KNOW, KIND OF LIKE THE
SPLIT, A BRILLIANT
CAMPAIGNER IN 2008 THEN YOU
WONDER HOW A DE WHO WAS.
GOOD AT MESSAGING AND
DIDN'T HAVE EFFECTIVE
COMMUNICATION TRAGEDY BUT I
WOULD QUESTION HOW, I THINK,
ROMNEY WILL GET A SHORT TERM
BUMP FROM THIS.
WHETHER IT SMOOTHS THE
RATINGS IN THE BALLOT GROUND
HAPPENS.
THAT'S THE KEY.
WHAT HAPPENED.
DOW EXPECT TO GET SOME SORT
OF A BUMP FROM THIS.
HOW LONGS THE BUMP GOING TO
LAST? I EXPECT TO SEE A
DIFFERENT BARACK OBAMA.
THE FIRST DEBATE IS
CONDITIONALLY THE MOST
WATCHED.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
RESEARCH ON THIS LO.
HOT THE DEBATE ITSELF IT THE
IMMEDIATE YA MARTIVE THAT
FOLLOWS IT.
ROMNEY HAD A GREAT COUPLE OF
DAYS.
BREAK.
WANT TO END THIS.
FORGET ABOUT THE MEDIA MAR
IF THAT FOLLOWS IT.
IT.
THIS IS THE FIRST TWITTER
DEBATE IF YOU WILL.
IT.
TURNING TO YOU GUYS BRIEFLY
ON THIS.
I WATCHED ENTIRE 90 MINUTES
A LOT OF I WAS READING THE
TWEETS FROM AND FOUND THAT
FASCINATING THAT IT TOOK
AWAY FROM THE SUBSTANCE.
ON THE FLIP SIDE, I THINK
THE RATINGS WERE HIGHER
BECAUSE OF SOCIAL MEDIA AND
BECAUSE OF TWITTER.
I THINK YOU ARE RIGHT.
IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO KEEP UP
I DO.
AND YOU MOW, IT IS GREAT
INFORMATION BUT YOU CANNOT
REALLY LOOK AT THE PHONE AND
FOLLOW A DEBATE LIKE THATTED
A THE SAME.
YOU.
I THINK, I THINK WHAT I LIKE
ABOUT TWITTER.
THE PROBLEMS THAT GOES TO
THAT.
A LOT. TIMES YOU CAN QUICKLY
LEARN THINGS AND EXPLAIN
STUFF YOU DUNN KNOW ABOUT.
ALL WRITING AT ONE WITH A
FLOOD OF TWEET AND YOU
CANNOT TAKE WHAT THE
CANDIDATES ARE SAYING AT THE
TIME AS THEY ARE SPEAKING.
IT IS HARD.
THERE IS A DOWNSIDE TO
ALL RIGHT.
WHEN WE COME BACK.
WHO DO YOU LOVE MORE?
TAVERAS OR RAIMONDO.
"NEWSMAKERS."
AM TIM WHITE.
THIS WEEK WE ARE JOINED BY
TED NESI, IAN DONNIS ANKARA
CROMWELL AND JOE FLEMING.
LETS A TALK ABOUT TAVERAS
AND RAIMONDO.
THEN POLL THEY HAD 58% JOB
APPROVAL RATINGS.
I HAVE THAT RIGHT.
BRIEF.
THIS IS MY SHOW AND WE ARE
DOING IT.
YOU KNOW?
SEAN MET UP WITH BOTH
POLITICIANS TO GET REACTION
FROM JOE FLEMING'S POLL.
HE ASKED THEM IN THE
POSSIBILITY OF EARTH OF THEM
RUN FOR GOV NOR IN 2014.
THAT WAS WHAT THEY HAD TO
A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE
ENCOURAGING KNOW DO IT.
AWAY.
I HAVE ALOT OF TO WORK DO.
THAT IS WHAT I AM DOING.
I DIDN'T HEAR A MO.
I DIDN'T HEAR A YES OR MO.
YOU HEARD ME SAY I AM
WORKING HARD FOR THE PEOPLE
TREASURE.
I DON'T WANT TO MAKE THAT
MISTAKE.
NEED TO FOCUS ON BEING MAYOR
OF THE CITY.
I DIDN'T HEAR A NO.
I AM FOCUSED ON BEING
MAYOR.
I DIDN'T HEAR A NO.
GREAT.
DIDN'T HEAR A NO.
WE DIDN'T HEAR A NO.
ONE?
WELL, YOU LOOK INTO THIS
POLL AND IT IS STUNNING HOW
DOES.
IAN TACKING ABOUT HAVING THE
PROGRESSIVE APPROACH.
57.9% APPROVAL RATING FOR
BOTH AMONG DEMOCRATS.
59.3% APPROVAL RATINGS FOR
DECIMAL POINT.
THEY HAVE SIMILAR, SIMILAR
AND THEY ARE ACTUALLY, THINK
MORE POPULAR WITH
REPUBLICANS THAN THE
DEMOCRATS.
YOU AND I ALWAYS JOKED.
THERE WAS SAYING THAT TWO
HARDEST POSITIONS TO BE IN
RHODE ISLAND AS A DEMOCRAT
OR THE MAYOR OF PROVIDENCE
IN THE GENERAL TREASURE.
THEY ARE BUCKING THAT
THIS ONE.
BECAUSE YOU WOULD THINK THAT
CUC OFF THAT GROUP.
THEY ARE NOT BAD.
THEY ARE GETTING THE
MAJORITY OFPORT.
REMEMBER NOW.
WE TALK ABOUT PRIVATE AND
PUBLIC SECTOR.
SO IT DOES NOT AFFECT THE
HELP THEM.
WAYS.
UPFRONT.
DO.
I AM GOING TO DO PENSION
REFORM IF YOU ELECT ME.
GETTING SUED.
SHE IS GETTING SUED BUT
DID.
IF THEY HAD A MEETING SHE
WAS THERE.
REFORMS.
STUFF.
THERE IS A RESPECT FOR HER.
WITH ANGEL, THEY KNEW WHAT
HE WALKED INTO WITH A
CATEGORY 5 HURRICANE.
WAS NEGOTIATED.
WELL, HE WORKED WITH THE
PROBLEMS.
WELL, HAVE POLLED WELL FOR
MORE THAN A YEAR NOW.
I THINK AT THIS TIME IS
BECAUSE THE PUBLIC SEES THEM
AS TICKLING DIFFERENT
PROBLEMS.
ONE OF THENNEST THERING
THINGS IS HOW RAISE MON DOE
HAS GOTTEN ATTENTION --
RAISE MON DOE.
UNDERSTAND.
THERE IS A GREAT STORY OF
HOW DEMOCRAT AND LABOR HEAVY
STATE WAS ABLE TO BE THE
ARCHITECT AND THE DRAMATIC
PENSION OVERHAUL.
BUT HELPED TO BRING
BANKRUPTCY.
I THINK IT IS SHAPING UP AS
REALLY SIGNIFICANT AND
DRAMA-FILLED DEMOCRATIC
UNLESS SOMETHING
CHANGES.
I COMPLETELY AGREE
EVERYTHING YOU SAID.
HOWEVER, IT IS STUNG HOW
POLITICS THE ONLY JOB WHERE
WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT
WHAT YOU WILL DO NEXT IS
THE RESULTS ARE.
IT IS LIKE, LIKE NEXT YEAR I
PROMISE I WILL HAVE IT.
YOU NEED TO, YOU MOW, YOU
NEED TO HIRE ME.
I THINK THAT TAVERAS HAS,
HIM, STILL.
HE HAS A TREMENDOUS A. WORK
TO DO.
I THINK HE HAS TAKEN BIG
STEPS BUT I THINK THE FACT
THAT THE TREASURE HAS
ACCOMPLISHED WHAT SHE SET
OUT TO DO IS KIND OF
INDICATIVE OF WHERE SHE MAY
BE GOING.
I WOULD SAY, ALSO, YOU HAD A
GOOD POST, ACTUALLY, YOU
POINTED OUT THAT DON'T GET
OVERLY EXCITED SOMETIMES.
RIGHT.
OH, YEAH.
THINGS CAN CHANGE.
TREASURE FOR PART OF THE
'90Os HAD 78% APPROVAL
RATING IN A BROWN POLL IN
1998 AND ROUND UP GETTING
DEFEATED HANDEDLY IN THE
WHITE HOUSE FOR ATTORNEY
GENERAL AND LATER THIS
LONG WAY.
YEAH.
DAVID CICILLINE THE POLK
NUMBER FOR JOB FER
FORMANCE.
THE EXACT NRM BER.
TWO YEARS.
ESPECIALLY IN POLITICS.
AND WE ARE ALL KIND OF
TALKING ABOUT THIS IN THE
CONTEXT OF GOVERNOR.
ITH IS POSSIBLE OTHER SEATS
COULD OPEN UP.
YEP.
YOU KNOW, I AM WONDERING
IF TODAYER, IF YOU COULD SEE
EITHER OF THEM IF THE SENATE
SEAT OPENED UP AND THERE WAS
A NY APPOINTMENT BY EITHER
ONE, QUITE FRANKLY, OR IF
THE REPUBLICAN, IF PREN DAN
DOHERTY, DID -- BRENDON
DOHERTY DONE WHICH IS.
MY THEORY ON THIS.
MY FAVORITE EVEN.
BARACK OBAMA WINS, SECRETARY
TRANSPORTATION TO REPLACE
RAY LAHOOD WAS ALSO A
REPUBLICAN IN CONPRESS AND
YOU CRAM BELL THE WHOLE
THING FOR 2014.
WHO KNOWS WILL WHAT HAPPEN
NEXT.
WELL, I THINK TAVERAS RAN
IN 2002, RIGHT.
CLEARLY.
IS INTERESTED IN
WASHINGTON.
HE CAN RUN.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO LIVE IN
THE DISTRICT YOU ARE RUNNING
FOR.
BECAUSE CHAFEE FIGURES HE
CANNOT WIN, WHY NOT TAKE
ABSOLUTELY.
THERE IS NO QUESTION SHE
WILL RUN FOR GOVERNOR IN
BOY.
WHAT IF LINCOLN CHAFEE
DECIDES TO PUT A D NEXT TO
HIM NAME.
HAVE --
YOU KNOW, CHAFEE'S OVERALL
NUMBERS ARE TERRIBLE BUT
NOT THAT BAD.
ALL RIGHT.
I SEE IT.
YOU KNOW.
DON'T SEE THAT.
I WILL SAY, FORMER
CAMPAIGN MAN FER.
YOU GO FROM REPUBLICAN,
INDEPENDENT TO DEMOCRAT.
HE KNOWS ALL THE ISSUES.
I DON'T SEE HIM.
I DON'T SEE HIM AND HIS
PEOPLE THINKING THAT.
ALL RIGHT.
HERE ARE THE NUMBERS.
DO WANT TO PIVOT TO
CONGRESSMAN AS REPUBLICAN
CHALLENGER MICHAEL RILEY AND
COLUMNS RUNNING AGAINST
HIM.
IF WE CAN PULL UP THE POLL
RESULT ON THAT ONE.
VOTE.
REPUBLICAN CHALLENGER MIKE
RILEY, 29%.
COLLINS PULL IN 9%.
8% ARE HEEREN MADE UP THEIR
MINE ON THIS ONE.
WE KNEE.
WE ARE ALREADY SEEING A
SITTING ON THE PRESS WITH
HIM.
HE CAME ON EARLY.
NEGATIVE CAMPAIGN ADS.
THE MESSAGE HERE IS WHAT
HAVE YOU DONE FOR ME LATELY
THAT.
IT IS IT WORKING?
ANY THOUGHTS? YOU STATED
THERE IS ROOM TO FRO.
I THINK THERE IS STILL ROOM
TO GROW.
63% OF THE PEOPLE STILL
COMEDIES.
LIKE I SAY, HE WOULD HAVE
TO PULL.
HE WOULD HAVE TO TAKE HIM
DOWN.
OF THROAT.
AWAY.
IT IS NOTHING TO WRITE HOME
ABOUT.
50%?
IT IS A SOFT RACE.
YOU COULD MOVE.
THE QUESTION IS.
THE RIGHT MESSAGE TO MOVE
THE NUMBERS?
A BIG CHALLENGE FOR RILEY
BUT ONE OF THE ACES IN THE
HOLE THAT HE HAS, HES FROM
WARWICK, A HUGE ELECTORAL
BASE, STILL, RUNNING AM
UPHILL BATTLE AS A
REPUBLICAN ALTHOUGH DOES
TREND MORE REPUBLICAN.
WELL, IT IS INTERESTING.
THE ONLY ONE OF THESE
INCUMBENTS UP FOR REELECTION
THIS YEAR WHO HAS NOT GONE
ON TV YET.
SOFTER.
HE WITH TALKING HERE ON
CHANNEL 12.
SHOW THE WHITE HOW'S JOB
RATINGS NOW THE HIGHEST THEY
SL BEEN.
RUNNING POSITIVE COMMERCIALS
AND WHAT HAS BEEN DOING FOR
THE PEOPLE.
VERY HIGH SATURATION.
THAT IS SHOWING THE BE WHERE
PERFORMANCE.
OH, ABSOLUTELY.
I MEAN, ITS IS THE HOLY
GRAIL.
YOU SAUVE THE MONEY FOR
TELEVISION.
THEY SAY ALL THE TIME.
THAT IS WHAT THEY RESPOND
TO.
WE HAVE LANDED IT.
I THINK HIS ISSUES THAT
PEOPLE WILL TALK ABOUT HE
HIS NAME ON.
THE ONE THING HE DID PUT HIS
NAME ON WHICH WAS BEG A PRO
LIFE DEMOCRAT, HE WIGGLES
AROUND OBAMA CARE SO I THINK
THAT IS A NOBODY TESTING
ISSUE FOR HIM SPECIFICALLY
THAT I DON'T KNOW WHAT HE IS
ALL RIGHT.
I WANT TO PREVIOUSLY TOUCH
ON SOMETHING TO GET AT THE
STATE HOUSE SURPRISEDLY
YESTERDAY WHEN HOUSE
MAJORITY PATRICK O'NEIL
RESIGNED FROM LEADERSHIP
SAYING HE HAD DIFFERENCES.
WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THIS?
GO AHEAD.
HE WON THE PRIMARY RACE
BY 150 VOTES HE SAID HE
FACED A LOT OF QUESTIONS
FROM VOTERS ABOUT 38 STUDIOS
AMONG OTHER TOPICS SO THIS
IS THE POLITICAL FALLOUT OF
A NOBODY TEST IN MOVING UP
IN THE LEADER HIPP.
HE TOLD GREG IS NOT GOING TO
SPACK THE CHAL LING JANUARY
BUT THIS IS AN EFFORT TO
SEPARATE HIMSELF AND BUILD
HIS OWN BASE FOR THE
FUTURE.
OF 38 STUDIOS.
IT IS RADIOACTIVE ISSUE OUT
THERE WITH THE ELECTORATE.
A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK WHY HE
LOST IN WIN SOCKET BECAUSE
OF THE UNIONS.
DEAL.
I THINK IT WAS INTERESTING
TO READ O'NEIL SAYING
SPEAKER FOX HAS NOT BEEN
ABLE TO DOLE DO WHAT HE TOLD
THE LEADERSHIP WEE.
TROUBLE YET.
I WAS SURPRISED TO SEE THIS
HAPPEN AND RAIDS THE
QUESTION OF WHAT THE NEW
DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS WILL DO.
ONE OF THE BIG THINGS
WITH A MINUTE LEFT HERE ON
THE AGENDA.
HE SAID ON THIS PROGRAM,
FIRST THAT HE WAS GOING TO
PUSH HARD FOR SAME-SEX
MARRIAGE.
YOUR POLL SHOWS THERE IS
56 FAVOR.
46 OPPOSE.
BUT THE FAVOR WAS HIGH.
34%.
THIS IS THE YEAR FOR
SAME-SEX MARRIAGE IN RHODE
ISLAND?
THE SENATE SEEMS TO BE THE
BIG OBSTACLE HERE.
UNCLEAR.
IF I IS HARD TO SAY.
MICHAEL McCAFFREY FACED A
TOUGH CHALLENGE FROM A GAY
WOMAN WHETHER HE CHANGES THE
STANCE REMAINS UNKNOWN.
AND THEY DIDN'T PICK UP
ANY VOTES IN THE SENATE
REALLY.
THAT DIDN'T WORK.
ALL RIGHT.
THE POLL NUMBERS SHOWED
IT MAY NOT BE THAT
CONTROVERSIAL IN THE END.
MAYBE THEY WANT TO BE
DOBE WITH IT.
DID YOU SHED A TEAR WHEN
POB BUY VALENTINE BOB BE
ABOUT VALENTINE?
IS HE GOING TO MAKE IT TO
LUNCH 1234.
WELL, I MEAN, I GUESS, I
DIDN'T FIND OUT UNTIL 1:20.
VERY WELL.
US.
TED NESI, IIAN DONNIS, CARA
CROMWELL, POLITICAL CONSULT
FLEMING.
HERE AS WELL.
YOU DO AN EXCELLENT JOB.
IF YOU MISSED IT.
IT IS ON-LINE WPRI.COM.
I AM TIM WHITE.
"NEWSMAKERS."