Word: rhode
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...just saw you on television," the elderly woman is saying from behind her screen door. "Were they attacking me, or was I talking?" Steve Laffey, a Republican running for the U.S. Senate from Rhode Island, asks. It was an ad, the woman says. About your parents. Alzheimer's, she says. Laffey's father has Alzheimer's. The ad is about the working-class modesty of the Laffey family. The candidate is going door to door on Lionel Avenue in Coventry, R.I., on a soft summer evening. He is accompanied by a mob that includes his wife and five children, plus...
...bleached landscape of American politics, this year's Republican U.S. Senate primary in Rhode Island is grand opera in Technicolor. Laffey is a conservative, supported by a virulently antitax group, the Club for Growth. The incumbent, Lincoln Chafee, is a breathtakingly courageous moderate: he opposed the Bush tax cuts and was the only Republican to vote against the war in Iraq. But there is a lot more going on here than dueling political philosophies. There is a truckload of New England sociology...
...benign, diffident, slightly spacey aspect. Visiting a senior citizens' center last week, Chafee apologized for interrupting lunch. "Don't worry! We love you," a woman shouted, and, I swear, Chafee blushed. Later I asked him why he remained a Republican. "It feels very comfortable locally. In Rhode Island, Democrats are the entrenched power, and we're the reform party. Regionally, it's comfortable too," and Chafee rattled off a list of Northeastern G.O.P. moderates. "In Washington, though, there has been a big shift to the Sun Belt Republicans. They have different priorities. I think I stand for traditional Republican values...
...Chafee Gives the G.O.P. Many Reasons to Smile The Rhode Island senator's key victory may signal that moderates aren't all dead and that incumbents aren't necessarily doomed
...Chafee Gives the G.O.P. Many Reasons to Smile The Rhode Island senator's key victory may signal that moderates aren't all dead and that incumbents aren't necessarily doomed