Question
If the November election for Senate were held today, and the candidates were (ROTATE) VARIES, Republican, or VARIES, Democrat, would you vote for VARIES or VARIES?

Match-ups
Chafee (R) 51%
Whitehouse (D) 32%

Chafee (R) 53%
Brown (D) 28%

Whitehouse (D) 50%
Laffey (R) 27%

Brown (D) 48%
Laffey (R) 29%

Note that Matt Brown has subsequently dropped out of the race.

Primary
Primary polling has a MoE of plus or minus nine percentage points.

Lincoln Chafee (R) 56%
Steve Laffey (R) 28%

Sheldon Whitehouse (D) 37%
Matt Brown (D) 21%
Carl Sheeler (D) 8%

About this Poll
This poll was conducted April 6, 2006, by the Bureau of Government Research and Services at Rhode Island College. It was a phone poll of 364 registered voters with a Margin of Error of plus or minus five percentage points.

Of those polled, 55% identified as independents, 29% as Democrats, 15% as Republicans, and 1% as some other party.