March 31, 2005

Patrick Kennedy Won't Run Against Lincoln Chafee

Congressman Kennedy is out, just days after Congressman Langevin declined to run a race against Senator Chafee (R-RI). This is good news for the Republican party, Lincoln Chafee, and Secretary of State Matt Brown, the only announced Democrat in the race. Langevin and Kennedy appeared to be the most obvious obstacles to his nomination. But both of those men have announced their support for what seems to be an increasingly likely Senate bid by former Attorney General Sheldon Whitehouse, so there may still be a heated primary for the party's nomination against Chafee. Many analysts think that would help Chafee win reelection, though it's probably worth pointing out that a number of Republicans who faced tough primaries in 2004 won difficult general election contests against strong nominees from the other party (though in some cases those races were in strongly Republican states like South Carolina and Oklahoma).

Posted by armand at March 31, 2005 09:09 AM | TrackBack | Posted to Politics


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