More Democrats turned out for Whitehouse than Republicans for Chafee / Laffey COMBINED. Interesting...

It's a Democratic state, fool.

No numbers from Providence yet...it might swing the election either way.

That means that Whitehouse has an energized base. Chafee, however, will be going into the general election with a divided Republican primary vote...exactly like Joe Lieberman.

...I meant Ned Lamont.

LOL... oh boy. This race is different from that circus you have going on in Connecticut. Unlike most of you, I would be happy with either Laffey or Chafee in the Senate.

80% of 515 Reporting LINCOLN CHAFEE 27,155 54% STEPHEN LAFFEY 23,163 46%

Channel 12 in Providence just called the race for Chaffee.

And the Linc lives to fight another day.

OH NO!!!!! THE SURE DEMOCRATIC PICKUP IS NOW GONE!!!!!!!!!! OH-NO!!!!!!!!

The Dems still have a fairly good chance at winning this seat, it's just going to be a lot tougher than it could have been.

At least we drained the financial resources of the NRSC.

Time to move Chafee to the front lines of the battle. To get to Talent and DeWine you'll have to spend a few bucks getting through Chafee. THAT'S his service to the party.

while this race is still in the tossup category. The NRSC did get what they wanted here. chalk up one for the DC repubs this year

WE DID IT!!! Now all we have to do is reach out to moderate Democratc and independent voters to win this race. With Laffey, that would have been impossible.

"At least we drained the financial resources of the NRSC." Glad to know that you're such a huge donor to the Club for Growth.

This will still be a big race in the general-Chafee barely won, and I doubt many of the Laffey voters will be going to him (they'll either stay at home or, if they were Democrats being sneaky for the general, will vote for Whitehouse).

That sound you're hearing in Washington is the DSCC booing this result.

Who's this CBlock guy? He's the only one who called it.

"I doubt many of the Laffey voters will be going to him (they'll either stay at home or, if they were Democrats being sneaky for the general, will vote for Whitehouse)." --Buddy My guess is that the GOP Laffey voters will show up for Carcieri in the governor's race. And once in the polling booth I suspect that they will hold their nose (hard) and vote for Chafee over Whitehouse.

I'm glad my prediction was wrong here.

I did say Chafee by 8, but I didn't enter a prediction. Oh well.

That sound you're hearing in Washington is the DSCC booing this result. Well, it appears the DSCC and conservative Republicans are doing pretty much the same thing. This is a good win for the GOP. They avoided a sure loss by renominating Chafee.

Rhode Island Republicans are smarter than Tuscon ones.

That Rhode Island College poll wasn't too close, was it?