Chafee won the RI Governors race (dem in third)

[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!

[David__77]

1. Chafee will govern as a progressive.

It does seem that in Maine, the Democrat was in third as well, and was effectively the spoiler to a progressive of sorts winning.

[EC]

2. Well

he is more liberal than some of our blue dogs...

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

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......

[AtomicKitten]

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.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

8. We all knew it

Some left him before others......

[AtomicKitten]

9. I am very happy for Rhode Island. IMO you made the correct choice.

Cheers.
:fistbump:

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

4. Yeah. Fuck those Democrats.

Worst OP of the day... but it's only 3:30

[BolivarianHero]

11. Chafee is more of a Democrat than Caprio...

How about paying attention.

[Renew Deal]

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.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

16. Maybe

I still doubt he would have beaten Sheldon Whitehouse in a primary, who IS a real Democrat.

[LittleBlue]

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.

[Barack_America]

7. Chafee, the last of the reasonable Republicans.

Ostracized from his party for that very fact.

I'm thrilled for him and RI.

[GoCubsGo]

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.

[Barack_America]

15. I'm aware of his party switch.

[SweetieD]

10. I do like Chafee a lot.

[socialshockwave]

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.