Rhode Island Senate: Whitehouse (D) 51%; Chafee (R) 43%
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Rasmussen Reports - The GOP establishment forcefully backed Republican Lincoln Chafee in the primary over a more conservative and arguably less-electable Republican. But, perhaps damaged by having to struggle so long for the nomination, it is not clear how electable Senator Chafee remains. The incumbent now lags his Democratic challenger 43% to 51%.
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By ROBERT TANNER  An embattled Senate incumbent in Rhode Island and an open House seat in Arizona gave Republican primary voters a choice Tuesday between moderates and conservatives, as both parties watched the races with eyes on the larger fight for control of Congress.
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Embattled moderate Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee survived TuesdayÃ¢ÂÂs closely watched primary in Rhode Island, calling his victory over conservative challenger Stephen Laffey, the major of Cranston, the result of a grass-roots campaign never before seen in the state.
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Rhode Island's independent-minded Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee confronted stiff opposition Tuesday in his bid for a second term, the latest race with a moderate targeted by his own party's hard-line critics.
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Republicans defeated Democrats in the Senate race in Georgia on Tuesday, while the Democratic incumbents were re-elected in Vermont and Indiana, reports reaching here said.
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Chafee ahead in Rhode Island primary PROVIDENCE, R.I., Sept. 12 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island held a tight lead Tuesday over a conservative Republican primary challenger, fueling GOP hopes to keep Senate control.
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U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island beat a conservative challenger in Tuesday's primary, fueling Republican hopes to keep Senate control.  Cranston Mayor Stephen Laffey conceded at 10:40 p.m., the Providence Journal-Bulletin reported.
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Florida Democrat Christine Jennings has gained plenty of attention for her cliffhanger House race in the open 13th District Ã¢ÂÂ just not the kind that she desired in her strong bid for the seat that two-term Republican Rep. Katherine Harris left open for a Senate bid that failed.
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Senator Lincoln Chafee won the Republican primary in Rhode Island, and Representative Benjamin L. Cardin and Kweisi Mfume lead in MarylandÂs Democratic primary.
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Seven-term Democratic Rep. Albert R. WynnÃ¢ÂÂs primary contest Tuesday in MarylandÃ¢ÂÂs 4th Congressional District got nowhere near the publicity received by Republican Sen. Lincoln ChafeeÃ¢ÂÂs fight for political survival in Rhode Island. Yet the slow and still-incomplete count in Maryland 4 indicates that Wynn may have ended up with the closest shave of any incumbent in the nine states that held Sept. 12 primaries.
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Fresh off their first victory over a Republican incumbent, GOP conservatives seeking party purity on taxes and spending are focused on ousting moderate Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island.
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By ROBERT THOMPSON, The Washington Post News service  Moderate Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, who has bucked President Bush on tax cuts and the war in Iraq, defeated a conservative challenger Tuesday in a contest crucial to the larger fight for control of Congress.
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THE RACE: The presidential race for Democrats and Republicans in New Hampshire
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Rasmussen Reports - A Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Connecticut's Republican Presidential Primary finds John McCain with a sixteen-point lead over Mitt Romney in the Nutmeg State. McCain attracts 42% of the vote while just 26% prefer the candidate from the neighboring state of Massachusetts. Rudy Giuliani picked up 12% of the vote and nobody else reached double digits.
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Rasmussen Reports - The first Rasmussen Reports telephone survey gauging general-election support for Republican Senator Sam Brownback shows him trailing Democratic Senator Hillary Clinton among likely voters by the narrow margin of just five percentage points. It&#39;s Clinton 46% Brownback 41%.
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Washington -- President Bush leads Democrat John Kerry, 52 percent to 41 percent, while independent Ralph Nader got 3 percent in a national poll taken during the Republican National Convention, which ended Thursday.
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Moderate Republican Sen. Lincoln   Chafee, a frequent opponent of President George W. Bush's   policies, battled for political survival against a conservative   challenger on Tuesday as voters in nine states selected   candidates for November's election.