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Lincoln Chafee


If I were a Republican, I would have voted for Rhode Island’s GOP Senator, Lincoln Chafee. I really like what I’ve read about him – and I admit that I know little else. Likewise, if I were a Democrat in RI, I’d have voted for the Democratic opponent, Sheldon Whitehouse, simply to get more Dems in the legislature, not because I didn’t like Chafee.

And that’s really the loss the Republicans had visited upon them Tuesday: Americans want to see what the other party can do, or at least folks who think differently, come from a different perspective and shake things up a bit.

By all accounts, Chafee sounds like the kind of politician I’d really admire. And, for much of his career, his neighbor Joe Lieberman was too.

Isn’t it fascinating how Rhode Island and Connecticut share a border and are home to a very conservative Democrat who ran as an Independent, and a very liberal Republican who now may leave his party, yet only one came out a winner – the one who says he’ll still caucus with the Dems?

If those results don’t teach you something about semantics and soul, then you’re just not listening to America carefully enough. Except now? A few folks leftover in D.C. are going to have to.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:36 pm November 9th, 2006 in Politics 

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