Lincoln Chafee launches presidential exploratory committee

[Mr. Morden]

Chafee wastes no time going after Clinton:

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/lincoln-chafee-2016-president-exploratory-committee-116810.html?hp=rc3_4

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[Mr. Morden]

If candidates with the resumes of Chafee, Webb and O'Malley had been running against Gore in 2000, it would have been considered a serious fight.

Bradley had a higher national profile going into 2000 than any of those three do going into 2016.  And I expect that none of those three will do as well in 2016 as Bradley did in 2000.

[Mr. Morden]

From the subsequent reporting on this, it sounds like Chafee is prepared to be the anti-Clinton attack dog in a way that O'Malley, Webb, etc. are not:

http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/09/politics/lincoln-chafee-2016-presidential-plans/

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Also, Chafee concedes that he's not inevitable, with a rather stunning admission:

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[Mr. Morden]

At the ~4:30 mark in this clip, David Brooks calls Chafee "inevitable":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_R3w_LJEKc&t=4m29s