The Best Primary Campaigns

The Best Primary Campaigns

What was the best primary campaign?  Who had the best ground game? Who defeated the odds? GoLocalProv asked its MINDSETTERS™—Republicans, Democrats, and independents—for what they thought. Here are some of their comments. … (Click here for the worst campaigns and here to find out who ran for the wrong office.)

BEST CAMPAIGNS

The best of the best – Angel Taveras

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Ground game: Ran a great ground game when Costantino was running a TV air game (the impact is TV over).

A textbook win: His campaign was a textbook win. They identified their voters throughout the city, and got them to the polls to vote. It feels good to get endorsements, see your campaign signs all over, and see your commercials, but at the end of the day the only thing that counts is turning out the vote on Election Day and Angel’s campaign did that better than any other in the state.

Gina Raimondo - Raised a wildly large heap of money and forced all other Democrats out of the race.

John Robitaille - Receiving 70 percent of the vote, has a clear mandate from the RIGOP. Go win this thing!

Doreen Costa - With her outstanding primary victory for state rep, RI Tea Partier Doreen Costa has become the RI GOP’s new poster candidate.

Anastasia Williams - Of the five state rep candidates targeted by the labor-backed “Working Families Coalition”—which spent nearly $13,000 on mail hit pieces—Williams was the only one who won. Not only did she win, she won with more than 74 percent of the vote. And her opponent was the daughter of Rep. Grace Diaz’ state committeewoman, Araminta McIntosh—and Diaz, who has long feuded with Williams for reasons not totally understandable, put the candidate, Wynnel Wilson, up to run.

Angel Taveras photo credit: Frank Mullin