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Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Chafee beats Laffey

An interesting end to the GOP primary fight in Rhode Island:
In a key victory for the national Republican Party, incumbent Sen. Lincoln Chafee on Tuesday fended off a fierce primary challenge from Cranston Mayor Steve Laffey.

With nearly three-quarters of the state's precincts reporting, Chafee, a maverick Republican who had often been at odds with party leaders, won 55 percent of his party's primary votes. Laffey earned 45 percent of the GOP vote.

The measure of victory was unexpected. Days before the primary, polls showed the two candidates running even.
Chafee doesn't get a breather. He now has to face Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse in what will be a hard fought campaign.

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