If by some miracle Laffey won the Republican primary would Chafee support Whitehouse in the general election?
This one is a coin toss. Anything can happen.
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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.
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.
Loses in the primary, I mean.
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.
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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).
All I care about is Chafee losing...
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.
Here is a recent poll of that race.