Secondly, you people don't have a clue that prefer the Dem or ask which would be better. Do you want Reid as Majority Leader. If Chaffee was going to switch, he would have gone with Jeffords and gotten a committee chairmanship with the Dems but he stayed!
Some of you need to get a grip and realize in some states they are NOT going to elect a conservative right now and most of NE falls in that category.
Please don't put me in the "you people" category. I certainly am not one who doesn't see the advantage of a RINO over a Dem (namely chairmanships).
However, from my vantage point Chafee is as bad as it gets as far as liberal Repubs. If he saw a 1 seat advantage for the Pubs I would think the temptation might be there to jump like Jeffords. That's all I'm saying. If he doesn't...great. But if he did make the jump, I wouldn't be surprised judging from his very liberal voting record.
Strange things will be going on in the NE after this election. Lieberman as an (I) will put a whole new dynamic in the mix. Who knows how Chafee will act? You say he won't jump because of his Repub family. I hope you're right. We'll see.