Poll: Chaffee on verge of losing primary and Dems on verge of winning seat

http://www.projo.com/digitalbulletin/content/projo-20060601-poll1.429d425f.html

WASHINGTON -- The conservative Club for Growth has released highlights of a poll that shows Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee in a statistical dead heat with his Republican primary challenger, Stephen P. Laffey.

The Washington-based group, which has endorsed Laffey, said its survey of 300 very likely Republican primary voters showed that Chafee would get 45.7 of the vote if the election ``were held today'' and Laffey, the mayor of Cranston, would get 44.3 percent.

It showed Chafee with a 45 percent favorable rating among those sampled and 51 percent unfavorable, with the balance undecided.

Laffey polls 54 percent favorable and 27 percent unfavorable.

Club for Growth President Pat Toomey said Laffey ``has pulled even or slightly ahead of Senator Chafee, despite a barrage of negative attack ads'' aired against Laffey by the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which backs the incumbent senator.

Likewise, Chafee campaign spokesman Ian Lang said the poll shows the senator ``in a strong position to win the primary, despite being hammered'' by ads financed by the Club for Growth. Lang called the poll ``a best-case scenario'' for Laffey because the sample had a high proportion of Republicans.


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If Laffey wins the nomination the GOP will lose the seat in a landslide. You can chalk up Rhode Island, Montana and Pennsylvania as sure wins in that case, with Ohio and Missouri also leaning toward us.

We may take the senate in 2006 yet.

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boils down to defeating so called RINO's in the primaries and running conservatives in the general election against democratic opponents

I won't get too excited until the primaries are over.

Just my opinion

I'm sure I'd be horrified with Laffey, just to acknowledge that.

But I hope Rhode Islanders send a Democrat to the Senate in 06, and I'll be pulling for you to accomplish that.

There must be a lot of voters in Rhode Island who would support a Democratic candidate if Laffey won the GOP primary.

What are your chances looking like right now?

Other polls have Chafee leading by 10-15 points.