This is how BBC World talked about Chafee's victory, "Tuesday's most significant primary took place in America's smallest state, Rhode Island, where the Senate's most liberal Republican fended off a challenge from a more conservative candidate.
Senator Lincoln Chafee, a big thorn in George W Bush's side, did not even vote for the president in 2004.
He has fought President Bush on tax cuts, the war in Iraq and Supreme Court nominees, and is almost single-handedly holding up the official confirmation of the president's UN ambassador, John Bolton". If despite doing all this and still getting large support from Republican party, it shows that Republicans are willing to put behind their differences and work for the cause of Republicans and make it hard for democratcs to win this winter's elections.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5347576.stm
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