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“This administration is populated by people who’ve spent their careers bashing government. They’re not just small-government conservatives—they’re Grover Norquist, strangle-it-in-the-bathtub conservatives. It’s a cognitive disconnect for them to be able to do something well in an arena that they have so derided and reviled all these years.”

Senator Hillary Clinton

Wednesday, March 23, 2005

Langevin out

U.S. Rep. Jim Langevin will not challenge Lincoln Chafee's U.S. Senate seat in 2006, leaving Matt Brown, current Secretary of State as the main challenger.

Brown trails Chaffee in the latest polls by a 39-25 margin, but a lot of that gap would most likely be made up with stronger name recognition.

*UPDATE* I blog corrected:
Rep. Jim Langevin (D) also urged secretary of state and fellow Democrat Matt Brown to drop out as well. Many in the state party envision a scenario in which Langevin keeps his House seat, Patrick Kennedy takes on Chafee in the Senate race, and Brown runs successfully for Kennedy's House seat.

posted by Scott @ 7:10 PM