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There's also a third party candidate. but we're too far into the weeds for this. for chaffee, it could be opposite of 2006. voters wouldn't like him that much. would they not like him so much that they then vote for republican in with that in mind, listen how closely how chaffee explained his switch this week. >> see president obama come in and doing the things he's doing for the country, that's a reason i want to enthusiastically join the democratic party. >> there it is. that's the real bet he's making. chaffee wants, needs the president to be with him. endorsement in the democratic party wo...

State. made him popular p. chaffee's score was 60 percent when he ran for election. the "r" next to his name was electoral poison. chaffee doesn't like to vote for republicans even republicans it likes so he left the gop in 2007, declared himself an independent and ran for governor in 2010. the big reason he won that race was the president of the united states. chaffee served in the senate with barack obama and then he endorsed him. obama's calling card was to be his post partisan appeal. he was a prominent nondemocrat vouching for oh ba balm ma's ability to reach across the aisle. because of ...

Weeks after that the runoff, you need people to go out to the poms as well. >> there's that tension, i remembered it a couple years ago. an issue here. hopefully we got it the ground zero mosque and the height of the controversy over that. mayor bloomberg gave a very moving speech about it where he said any group should have a right to build this. and i remember, the contrast between weiner and this emage he had nationally, he would say anything, fear of nothing, raving on the house floor. when that issue came up he ducked it and he wouldn't talk about it or say anything publicly. it showed so...

The candidate muttered a memorable line. the president could take his endorsement and shove it. now today chaffee needs president obama even more than he did in 2010 because his first term may be pretty. he may be the least. a 40-point score. this is how to understand lincoln chaffee's latest switch from independent to the democratic party. if chaffee runs for relee election as independent, he's cooked. but, by joining the democrats he gives himself a fighting chance. maybe not a fighting chance but a theoretical chance. there are already a couple of democrats with serious support likely to ru...

That statement did not come with the promise of any real help. this is chaffee's second affiliation change in six years. it may start to look too calculated, a little unseenly like it did when ar lynn specter swi in 2009. >> my change in party will enable me to be reelected. >> arlen, you never explain your calculation outloud. that line was used against him in 2010 and it was devastating. he lost the democratic primary. in one way. it's a demonstration how republicans are evolve. we had conservative democrats in the south. a lost mixing between the parties. that's the past. today liberals are...