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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 01:40 PM
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Chafee won the RI Governors race (dem in third)
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/#mapGRI

No Caprio, you shove it!
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David__77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 01:43 PM
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1. Chafee will govern as a progressive.
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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EC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 02:17 PM
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2. Well
he is more liberal than some of our blue dogs...
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ProudToBeBlueInRhody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 02:21 PM
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3. Caprio screwed up
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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AtomicKitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore 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.
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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ProudToBeBlueInRhody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 02:43 PM
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8. We all knew it
Some left him before others......
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AtomicKitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore 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.
Cheers.
:fistbump:
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Kurt_and_Hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 02:22 PM
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4. Yeah. Fuck those Democrats.
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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BolivarianHero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 03:34 PM
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11.  Chafee is more of a Democrat than Caprio...
How about paying attention.
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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 04:13 PM
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12. Chafee voted against the IWR
And is light years better than Lieberman or Ben Nelson. He would still be a senator if he changed parties.
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ProudToBeBlueInRhody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 09:10 PM
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16. Maybe
I still doubt he would have beaten Sheldon Whitehouse in a primary, who IS a real Democrat.
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LittleBlue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 02:37 PM
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6. Good. At least the R didn't win
Too bad we couldn't have achieved this result in Florida and got a Tea Bagger.
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Barack_America Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 02:40 PM
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7. Chafee, the last of the reasonable Republicans.
Ostracized from his party for that very fact.

I'm thrilled for him and RI.
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GoCubsGo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 04:15 PM
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14. Chafee is not a republican
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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Barack_America Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 04:20 PM
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15. I'm aware of his party switch.
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SweetieD Donating Member (517 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 03:32 PM
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10. I do like Chafee a lot.
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socialshockwave Donating Member (637 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 04:15 PM
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13. Well said.
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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