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Chafee in Dead Heat with Whitehouse, While Whitehouse Leads Laffey in U.S. Senate Race
Taubman Center for Public Policy ^ | June 2006

Posted on 06/28/2006 7:45:06 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued

U.S. Senator Lincoln Chafee is locked in a close race with Democrats Sheldon Whitehouse in the Senate general election, according to a new statewide survey conducted by researchers at Brown University.

The survey was conducted June 24-26, 2006, at Brown University by Darrell M. West, director of the Taubman Center for Public Policy and the John Hazen White Sr. Public Opinion Laboratory. It is based on a statewide random sample of 719 registered voters in Rhode Island. Overall, the poll had a margin of error of about plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.

If the general election is held today, 38 percent say they will vote for Sheldon Whitehouse, 37 percent support Senator Chafee, and 25 percent are undecided (compared to Chafee’s lead of 40 to 34 percent in February).

If the Republican nominee is Mayor Laffey, Whitehouse is ahead by 55 to 25 percent (up from the 44 to 29 percent Whitehouse had in February).

(Excerpt) Read more at insidepolitics.org ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Rhode Island
KEYWORDS: 109th; 2006; 2006polls; chafee; election2006; electioncongress; gopprimary; laffey; polls; rino; sheldonwhitehouse
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1 posted on 06/28/2006 7:45:08 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
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To: Clintonfatigued

If by some miracle Laffey won the Republican primary would Chafee support Whitehouse in the general election?


2 posted on 06/28/2006 7:49:48 PM PDT by rhombus
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To: rhombus

Chafee would support someone who shares his ideology... so he would support Whitehouse.


3 posted on 06/28/2006 7:51:20 PM PDT by So Cal Rocket (Proud Member: Internet Pajama Wearers for Truth)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; Kuksool; Dan from Michigan; zbigreddogz; JohnnyZ; ...

This one is a coin toss. Anything can happen.


4 posted on 06/28/2006 7:52:54 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Illegal aliens commit crimes that Americans won't commit)
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To: Clintonfatigued
Some say toffee and some say coffee
Some say Chafee and some say Laffey
Toffee, coffee, Chafee, Laffey
Oh, let's call the whole thing off

Leni

5 posted on 06/28/2006 7:56:17 PM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: Clintonfatigued

Does this mean we should all hold our noses and vote for Chafee then? Please. Chafee deserves to lose to either the Dim or to Laffey.


6 posted on 06/28/2006 7:57:46 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (What you know about that?)
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To: rhombus
Despite being a Dim, you have to concede that Whitehouse has a kick-ass last name.

"Today Senator Whitehouse announced his bid for the White House..."

7 posted on 06/28/2006 7:59:28 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (What you know about that?)
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To: Clintonfatigued

I hope Chafee loses so NRSC money won't be spent for what wouldn't be much of a victory even if they managed to save him. Given that the race would be close, NRSC would probably end up spending a lot of money up there that could be spent elsewhere.


8 posted on 06/28/2006 7:59:33 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Clintonfatigued

Loses in the primary, I mean.


9 posted on 06/28/2006 8:00:56 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

You have an uber-RINO (Chafee), a 'Rat party hack (Whitehouse), and an excellent, conservative-leaning Mayor (Laffey) who is polling very poorly.

It must be very hard to be a conservative in Rhode Island.


10 posted on 06/28/2006 8:01:26 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Illegal aliens commit crimes that Americans won't commit)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Chaffee is far beyond the nose-holding stage. He has a long record of voting against his party on critical votes, which have been lost several times by a single vote--his vote.

No other RINO in the senate has a record as bad as his, except for Jumping Jim Jeffords.


11 posted on 06/28/2006 8:01:28 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: MplsSteve; MNJohnnie; Diana in Wisconsin; wagglebee; LdSentinal; AntiGuv; RWR8189

Senate elections ping


12 posted on 06/28/2006 8:04:12 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Illegal aliens commit crimes that Americans won't commit)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Not a fricking dime, let the seat go, it is already


13 posted on 06/28/2006 8:05:04 PM PDT by DAC22
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To: Clintonfatigued

........excellent, conservative-leaning Mayor (Laffey.......

Huh???

Laffey is a mayor of a meduim sized town, just like Chaffee had been.

Just because you are a hack mayor, gives no-one the credentials to become a Senator.

Chaffee has been an embarrassment as he had no big time credentials. Laffey would be the same idiot politician as Chaffee has proven to be, only worse.!


14 posted on 06/28/2006 8:08:51 PM PDT by aShepard (Maybe the UN should donate UNICEF proceeds to the Gates Foundation, and fold!)
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To: aShepard

Actually, Stephen Laffey is conservative for a New England Republican. He would be a reasonably reliable vote for conservative causes in the Senate.

Problem is, he doesn't have a very good chance of winning.


15 posted on 06/28/2006 8:11:33 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Illegal aliens commit crimes that Americans won't commit)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Isn't this the state that sent Patrick Kennedy to Congress? I don't think we'll keep this seat (good riddance to a bad RHINO).


16 posted on 06/28/2006 8:15:22 PM PDT by RedRover (Irey for Congress! She'll bring American values to Washington.)
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To: Clintonfatigued
I'm actually amazed that Chaffee hasn't gone the Jeffords route by now. He really is the definition of RINO that some loosely throw around at others in the party.
17 posted on 06/28/2006 8:20:32 PM PDT by Texasforever (I have neither been there nor done that.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

All I care about is Chafee losing...


18 posted on 06/28/2006 8:23:34 PM PDT by demkicker (democrats and terrorists are intimate bedfellows)
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To: Clintonfatigued

This seems to be to be another example of a situation where the message is far more important than the messenger - the candidate - who carries it. The first of these was Cannon, in Utah-3. His defeat in the primary might not actually produce a better candidate, but it WOULD deliver an absolutely critical message to the leadership that they have been flaunting their power and flouting their party.

Chaffee is the most egregious example of the same problem in the Senate, and kicking him out would be a positive benefit to the Repubs, and no loss at all.


19 posted on 06/28/2006 8:25:13 PM PDT by MainFrame65
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To: Republican Wildcat

I would vote for Lafey in the primary, and--holding my nose very tightly--vote for Chaf in the general if I had to. Isn't Whitehouse another Kerry, Boxer, etc. type? As bad as Chafee is--and he's plenty bad--he's with us 20% of the time. You gotta do what you gotta do.


20 posted on 06/28/2006 8:27:18 PM PDT by guitarist
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