WPRI.com Blogs » 1996 http://blogs.wpri.com http://feeds2.feedburner.com/WpricomBlogs Sat, 25 May 2013 13:58:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Watch Conan in ’96: ‘As Rhode Island goes, so goes the nation’ http://blogs.wpri.com/2012/03/30/watch-conan-in-96-as-rhode-island-goes-so-goes-the-nation/ http://blogs.wpri.com/2012/03/30/watch-conan-in-96-as-rhode-island-goes-so-goes-the-nation/#comments Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:00:28 +0000 Ted Nesi http://blogs.wpri.com/?p=50964 Despite all evidence to the contrary, I am holding out hope that the final outcome of the hard-fought Republican presidential primary will be decided when Rhode Island votes on April 24. It would be political-reporter nirvana. Maybe Gingrich would do “Newsmakers” and we could call it “Newtmakers.”

… Alas, with less than a month left before the primary it looks as if Rhode Island may not play the crucial role this year I’d hoped it would. But if that’s so, I wouldn’t be the first person to overestimate Rhode Island’s importance in the GOP primary process. Jay Leno sent Conan O’Brien here for the same reason back in 1996:

Thanks to reader Nate Lavigne for sending in this long-lost classic.

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