A monitor inside WPRI’s East Providence studio announced the allotted runtime for Providence Mayor Brett Smiley and his Democratic challenger, state Rep. David Morales: 26 minutes and 45 seconds.
“It’s going to go by quick,” moderator Tim White told each candidate, instructing them to direct their closing statement at the camera “that’s very tall.”
That timespan allowed Smiley and Morales to illustrate, inadvertently or not, a hypothesis floated by moderator Ted Nesi…