Sorry I missed this. Chafee won the Primary? I'm ambivelent. He's the top RINO. Losing him would hurt the drive to maintain the majority. But he's a turn-coat in waiting. Didn't he already say he'd do a Jeffords if the opportunity afforded itself. Do you really want to caucus with someone of such low integrity?
This same poll shows that Whitehouse leads Laffey by 35 points (60% to 25%). That sucks, because Laffey has shown great potential in his current office.
Primary hasn't been held yet, IIRC it's Sept. 12th. It would be great to get rid of Chafee, better yet to get Laffey in, but in this case an honest 'Rat is better than a 'Rat in RINO's clothing. Even if Laffey lost the general election the effect this would have on RINOs in general would be salutory. The only alleged (R) I'd rather lose is McCain, whose loss would hurt the media worse, but he's not up for re-election. Come on AZ, restart your McCain recall effort!!! Laffey's low polling statewide (interesting this Rassmussen report didn't poll the Chaffee vws. Laffey GOP primary race) in part probably reflects his low name recognition amongst (D) and (I) voters, which would certainly improve if he did beat Chafee. The 'Rats don't really want 'their' guy to win this race, they want to keep Chafee.