It looks like Senator Lincoln Chafee is going down.
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.
It’s not a good year to be an incumbent. If Steve Laffey wins this primary it will make the Democratic candidate, Sheldon Whitehouse, a very heavy favorite. I hope the wingnuts will be happy losing a Senate seat in New England. They are going to be down to the two in Maine and the two in New Hampshire.
I wonder if Chafee will form a new party called Rhode Island for Chafee and run as an independent?
P.S. National Press Corp? Which party is radical and hostile to centrists again?
