On little watched Cox Cable TV, Brown Univ. prof. Darrell West says '02 GOV candidate/ex-AG Sheldon Whitehouse (D) has immediately become the frontrunner for the Dem nomination. Even though Sec/State Matt Brown (D) has a head start on organization and fundraising, Whitehouse will catch up quickly because of name recognition and "excellent connections." said West, terming this race "experience versus a newcomer." He anticipates an "actively contested primary."
As an unpaid unasked strategist, Professor thinks the victor should make "the campaign into a referendum" against GOP dominance of Congress, rather than a direct assault on Chafee.
Meanwhile, his junior colleague at the Political Science Department took the time to point out the obvious: that Kennedy and Langevin acted selfishly weren't really looking out for their constituents. "These statements might be plausible" if the Dems "had a chance of taking back control of the House in the next decade. But let's be realistic: They don't." Thanks to their decisions, Democrats "also now have no chance to take back the Senate." Prof. Jennifer Lawless went on to tell the ProJo (sub. req.) "They are so confident in their prospects for re-election that they never even considered that they might be held accountable for failing to close the party gap in the Senate. ... They failed the people of their party. And they became poster children who embody the national party's weaknesses. I can only hope that each will face a contested primary, if for no other reason than to be forced to justify publicly their decision to value their own job security over the interests of the citizens they allegedly represent." Laying the smack down like the WWE.
I am proud of, and agree with my alma matter's professors, even if I never took classes from them or have any other ties to them other than the excellant University that is Brown.
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