Double take | Chafee unseated by a Yalie
Brown University graduate Sen. Lincoln Chafee lost his incumbency two years ago. He wants to make sure there are no hard feelings. The man who defeated him, after all, happens to be a Yalie.
“Honestly, I didn’t even realize that Sheldon Whitehouse ’78 went to Yale until people brought it up today,” he said.
In 2006, Chafee, then a Republican, lost his Rhode Island senate seat to the Democratic challenger Whitehouse. Despite maintaining a 51 percent approval rating on SurveyUSA, Chafee said he was hurt, politically, by the general unpopularity of President George W. Bush ’68...
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