Well its almost like RI: If you were a Republican there would you have supported Laffey over Chafee, knowing that one is (only) slightly more conservative than the other, but the one in office is a far-left liberal with an (R) next to their name! I sure would have. Of course thankfully I live in the south.
As a Conservative movement, we ought to try to take over as many small states as possible. Remove about a half-million of us from a state like Georgia and move them to RI, and we could take it over. Ditto with the other smaller N.E. states. Return them all to their original Republican roots. ;-D