Chuckwagon: RI Pick Up More Of A Sure Thing

6:24 pm EST August 31st, 2006 | Uncategorized | 6 Comments

Thank you Rhode Island Republicans for purging your party.

If the September 12 primary were held today, 51 percent say they will vote for Steve Laffey, 34 percent support Senator Chafee, and 15 percent are undecided. A BGRS survey of Republican voters conducted in June had Laffey at 39 percent and Chafee at 36 percent. Chafee’s base is virtually unchanged since the June survey, while the number of Laffey supporters has grown 12 percentage points.

While he is ahead of both Republicans in the polls, Rasmussen shows that the election would be solid for Sheldon Whitehouse with Steve Laffey as the GOP nominee.

Go Laffey!

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6 Responses to “Chuckwagon: RI Pick Up More Of A Sure Thing”

  1. Quaker in a Basement says:
    August 31, 2006 at 7:18 pm

    Where are all the pundits tut-tutting about the influence of extremists in the Republican party?

  2. factcheck says:
    August 31, 2006 at 8:44 pm

    They must be on vacation Quaker. Will we see the “Chaffee for Rhode Island” party?

  3. duros62 says:
    August 31, 2006 at 9:55 pm

    Wow, just what we need is another dry drunk frat boy.
    Chafee will bow out gracefully. He may be a weeny, but he’s a classy weeny.

  4. Dr. Anatole Gavage-Huskanoy says:
    August 31, 2006 at 11:28 pm

    PUUUUURRRRRRGGGGEEEE!!

    Well, that’s what it is.

  5. Rod Hoffman says:
    September 1, 2006 at 10:01 am

    It’s been noted on another website that Rhode Island is an open primary state (independants can choose vote in a party’s primary) and that Chafee has been pushing for independants to vote for him in the Republican primary.

    This fact undercuts the predictive value of the BGRS survey.

  6. Duros62 says:
    September 1, 2006 at 12:25 pm

    But it is a survey of registered Republicans likely to vote, isn’t it? Unless the pollsters are getting played by Indys.