Renew Deal
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Wed Nov-03-10 01:40 PM
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Chafee won the RI Governors race (dem in third) |
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Edited on Wed Nov-03-10 01:58 PM by Renew Deal
Candidate Vote Vote % Chafee 123,398 36% (I) Robitaille 114,761 34% (R) Caprio 78,776 23% (D) 89% reported (estimate) http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2010/results/individual/#mapGRINo Caprio, you shove it!
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Wed Nov-03-10 01:43 PM
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1. Chafee will govern as a progressive. |
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Edited on Wed Nov-03-10 01:43 PM by David__77
It does seem that in Maine, the Democrat was in third as well, and was effectively the spoiler to a progressive of sorts winning.
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Wed Nov-03-10 02:17 PM
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he is more liberal than some of our blue dogs...
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Wed Nov-03-10 02:21 PM
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I think a lot of Dems ended up voting for the moderate party guy (he got 6%) or undervoted. I don't know how Robitaille picked up any anti-"shove it" votes......
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Wed Nov-03-10 02:34 PM
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5. Caprio reportedly met with the GOP and considered changing parties early this year. |
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I'm pretty sure Rhode Island Democrats weren't enamored with that.
Party affiliation aside, Rhode Island voters elected the most progressive candidate on the ballot.
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Wed Nov-03-10 02:43 PM
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Some left him before others......
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Wed Nov-03-10 02:46 PM
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9. I am very happy for Rhode Island. IMO you made the correct choice. |
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Wed Nov-03-10 02:22 PM
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4. Yeah. Fuck those Democrats. |
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Edited on Wed Nov-03-10 02:23 PM by Kurt_and_Hunter
Worst OP of the day... but it's only 3:30
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Wed Nov-03-10 03:34 PM
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11. Chafee is more of a Democrat than Caprio... |
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How about paying attention.
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Wed Nov-03-10 04:13 PM
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12. Chafee voted against the IWR |
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And is light years better than Lieberman or Ben Nelson. He would still be a senator if he changed parties.
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Wed Nov-03-10 09:10 PM
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I still doubt he would have beaten Sheldon Whitehouse in a primary, who IS a real Democrat.
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Wed Nov-03-10 02:37 PM
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6. Good. At least the R didn't win |
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Too bad we couldn't have achieved this result in Florida and got a Tea Bagger.
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Wed Nov-03-10 02:40 PM
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7. Chafee, the last of the reasonable Republicans. |
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Ostracized from his party for that very fact.
I'm thrilled for him and RI.
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Wed Nov-03-10 04:15 PM
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14. Chafee is not a republican |
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He left the party shortly after he left the Senate. I am willing to bet that if his father were still alive, he'd have left, too.
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Wed Nov-03-10 04:20 PM
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15. I'm aware of his party switch. |
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Wed Nov-03-10 03:32 PM
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10. I do like Chafee a lot. |
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Wed Nov-03-10 04:15 PM
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I might not agree with him on some of his conservative points(like privatization of Social Security or the Patriot Act) but he seems to be much more to the left then some of the Democrats.
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