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Article: SEN. CHAFEE, CRANSTON MAYOR LAFFEY IN TIGHT REPUBLICAN PRIMARY RACE
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- November 30, 2006
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Rhode Island College issued issued the following press release:
Cranston Mayor Steven Laffey is in a virtual tie with Sen. Lincoln Chafee for the party's nomination for Senate in the September Republican primary, according to a new statewide survey of 256 likely Republican primary voters conducted by the Bureau of Government Research and Services at Rhode Island College. If the September primary for the Senate election were held today, 39 percent of voters would support Chafee while 38 percent would back Laffey, if half of those voting in the primary are Republicans and the other half unaffiliated voters. One in four likely primary voters say they are undecided.
Among men, Laffey leads ...