RI-PPP: Whitehouse leads potential opponents

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Any ideas why Avedisian is polling better than anyone else? I would not expect the mayor of Warwick to be so prominent.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Any ideas why Avedisian is polling better than anyone else? I would not expect the mayor of Warwick to be so prominent.

Warwick is about 8-9% of the state' population, and Lincoln Chafee used to have that position.

     Indeed, but he is polling better than Robitaille, who ran for Governor & lost by only 2%, & Carcieri, who is a former two-term Governor. Avedisian is clearly not a random nobody, but I do not see why he is doing better than candidates who have run statewide before.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Any ideas why Avedisian is polling better than anyone else? I would not expect the mayor of Warwick to be so prominent.

Warwick is about 8-9% of the state' population, and Lincoln Chafee used to have that position.

     Indeed, but he is polling better than Robitaille, who ran for Governor & lost by only 2%, & Carcieri, who is a former two-term Governor. Avedisian is clearly not a random nobody, but I do not see why he is doing better than candidates who have run statewide before.

Couldn't it be that they have negatives from their statewide runs or terms that this guy doesn't?

     That seems to be the likeliest explanation, though given how well both Carcieri & Robitaille performed (by RIGOP standards, granted) I find it rather surprising that their negatives would be high enough to offset the benefits of the superior name recognition afforded by a statewide run.