The 'purge' not worth mentioning (RI)

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Are you from RI, RTFirefly? As far as I can tell, there isn’t any news coverage of the contest because Laffey has absolutely no chance. He’s kind of a joke around here.
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Dunno how it looks up close, but it sounds from here like a lot of people who aren’t usually registered Republicans did whatever they had to do under RI law to vote in the GOP primary and save Chafee’s lukewarm ass. (For now. :))

I gather Laffey’s people were expecting a high-turnout primary of 50-55K voters, and were expecting to win that. Laffey got >29K votes, so they would have. But turnout was >63K - oops.

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One is news and the other one isn’t.

The Democratic Party is up for grabs; the confrontation between Lamont and Lieberman and the subsequent elections might foretell which way the party goes for the next generation.

But a moderate Republican being swept aside by a Conservative? Let’s face facts, that train left the station about fifteen years ago. It doesn’t matter whether Chaffee is re-elected or replaced; he’s a remnant of an ideological group that has long since lost control of the Republican party.