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Updated: Saturday, November 21, 2009 6:30 p.m.

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For Chafee, hail to the Party

Contributing Reporter
Published Thursday, October 2, 2008

Sen. Lincoln Chafee is a formal Republican-turned-Independent. He is for abortion and gay rights. He is against unilateralism. And he voted for Barack Obama in Rhode Island’s Democratic primary.

But he wants to promote party loyalty. At least that’s what he argued at Tuesday night’s Yale Political Union debate.

Chafee spoke in the affirmative for the failed resolution “Resolved: Vote the Party, Not the Person,” despite his record as a liberal member of the Republican Party. The students who spoke for the negation argued that party politics take away transparency from the...

#1 By Teo B. 10:19a.m. on October 2, 2008

I don't think anyone is for abortion, you probably mean he's for choice.

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