Entries for September 13, 2006

Sen. Lincoln Chafee won his GOP Senate primary in Rhode Island by a 54-to-46 percent margin over Cranston Mayor Steve Laffey. That's an unimpressive margin for an incumbent senator. And Chafee seems to be running only even in polls against Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse. But Laffey ran far behind Whitehouse in polls, and Chafee's renomination was the only way Republicans could hope to hold this seat in what is by some measures the nation's most Democratic state–Kerry over Bush, 59 to 39 percent.