Rhode Island Senate Primary official thread

[Kevinstat]

This is almost certainly wrong (look at Whitehouse's distant third-place finish in the Democratic contest), but check out http://www.abc6.com/primary.shtml just for kicks.

Perhaps actually real is http://www.turnto10.com/politics/9802560/detail.html from what seems to be Providence's NBC affiliate.  Also, you might want to check out the "COMMENTS" thread under "Rhode Island: Primary Review" on Ron's blog in http://www.politics1.com/index.htm .

By this time someone has probably beaten me to this by several minutes, but the count I see on http://www.turnto10.com/politics/9802560/detail.html is:

Lincoln Chafee  2,735 55%  
Stephen Laffey  2,241 45%  
Precincts Reporting - 14 out of 515 - 3%

[Kevinstat]

With 9% of precincts reporting, Lincoln Chafee leads 55%-45%.

You must have meant with 9 precincts reporting, as the site you later provided the link to only shows 3% of precincts (14 out of 515) in yet.

Okay, I guess maybe not, since it was someone else who (before me) linked to http://www.turnto10.com/politics/9802560/detail.html .

[Kevinstat]

Looking more and more ominous for Laffey

From http://wpri.conversent.net/election.html

US Senate
Republican
53% of 515 Reporting  
 LINCOLN CHAFEE  19,778 54%
 STEPHEN LAFFEY  17,103 46%

[Kevinstat]

From Sam Spade's last numbers Laffey would have to win the remaining precincts by just over 11 pionts (55.5% to 44.5%) in order to catch up.

[Kevinstat]

From http://wpri.conversent.net/election.html again:

US Senate
Republican
67% of 515 Reporting  
 LINCOLN CHAFEE  22,757 53%
 STEPHEN LAFFEY  19,928 47%

[Kevinstat]

US Senate
Republican
73% of 515 Reporting  
 LINCOLN CHAFEE  24,953 54%
 STEPHEN LAFFEY  21,576 46%

http://wpri.conversent.net/election.html

Chafee might win this thing by double digits.  It's definitely over now.  Laffey would have to get 59.8% of the vote in the remaining precincts to catch up, and that ain't happening.