RI-Sen: Laffey way up in primary poll

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RI-Sen: Laffey way up in primary poll

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Thursday August 31, 2006 · 1:03 PM PDT

2006/08/31 · 13:03

Rhode Island College. 8/28-30. Likely Republican primary voters. MoE 5.1% (7/12-15 results)

Chafee (R) 34 (39)
Laffey (R) 51 (38)

It's got to be a nightmare polling this race, so I don't know how much to trust the specific numbers. Like that Q-poll in Connecticut that overstated Lamont's support beyond what both campaigns' internal polls showed, this one may be overstating Laffey support.

But it's clear the trends are with Laffey, and dramatically so.

Not to mention that there's a reason the NRSC is spending millions in anti-Laffey ads and sending every operative east of the Mississippi to Rhode Island to try and save Chafee's but.

The NRSC is taking out people from such key states as Ohio, Missouri, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia in order to prevent Laffey from handing the seat to the Democrats. They wouldn't be doing that if their own internal numbers didn't look abysmal.

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