Rob Horowitz: Cicilline & Doherty is a Neck-and-Neck Race
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
In 2006, Sheldon Whitehouse was able to defeat a truly different kind of Republican, Lincoln Chafee, despite Chafee’s high approval ratings, by tying him to an unpopular President Bush. While Cicilline clearly still has his own vulnerabilities, it is worth noting that the Congressional Republicans who Cicilline is already wrapping around Doherty are far more unpopular today than President Bush was then.
Rob Horowitz is a strategic and communications consultant who provides general consulting, public relations, direct mail services and polling for national and state issue organizations, various non-profits and elected officials and candidates. He is an Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the University of Rhode Island.
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