Posted on 06/14/2006 9:41:59 AM PDT by Clintonfatigued
The latest Rasmussen Reports election poll of the race for the U.S. Senate in Rhode Island shows Senator Lincoln Chafee (R) still neck-and-neck with former Attorney General Sheldon Whitehouse (D), nominally besting him by 44% to 42%. In late April, Chafee could only boast a mere three-point edge.
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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?
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?
As far as I can tell, Stephen Laffey hasn't gained much traction, which is unfortunate. Choosing between Chafee and Whitehouse is like choosing between heroin and crack.
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.
Who the hell cares about who kicks Chaffee's butt? Getting Chaffee retired can't be bad, no matter how!
This might be one of those cases where losing the (R) might help things (as long as the (R)s stay in the majority). For example, Lincoln is on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and has done his best to make sure that reforms that would free Americans from draconian EPA regulations never see the light of day. With him gone, a sensible person could take his place on that committee and some good could actually be done.
True Inhofe chairs that Committee and he described it as 9-9 because of Chaffe. We'll get no property rights protection out of that committee as long as Linc is on it.
You guys hit the nail in the head: Having Lincoln Chafee in the Senate with an R next to his name actually hurts the GOP in the three committees on which he sits, since they are for all intents and purposes evenly split among the parties instead of having a 2-vote GOP advantage. We need to get Chafee to lose or at least switch to the Democrats:
http://auh2orepublican.blogspot.com/2005/08/what-to-do-about-insufferable-senator.html
Conservatives should support Mayor Stephen Laffey in the GOP primary against Chafee. http://auh2orepublican.blogspot.com/2005/09/more-on-why-senator-lincoln-chafee-has.html
Which, I think further confirms my theory that Ras is consistently under-valuing Republicans in every single poll. I think he's off by 5-10 points on most of these.
Why vote for a DISU (Chaffee - Democrat In Shallow Undercover) when you can vote for the real thing.
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.
Put aside the election for a second - why is this RINO on any committees? We have a separate problem which is committee chairmanship and membership. Specter shouldn't be chairing a committee and Chafee should not even be on a committee.
I guess I hope Chafee wins, just because Whitehouse is even more nuts and because it will look good to lose less seats or break even on election day.
But whatever. I'm pretty ambivilant on this race.
I think the Club for Growth polled the primary race a few weeks back and found Laffey only a couple of points behind Chafee.
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