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Running Against the Big Shots
Is there room left in the Senate for a courageous moderate Republican? Not if Steve Laffey, who wants to oust Lincoln Chafee in Rhode Island, has anything to say about it
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"I just saw you on television," the elderly woman is saying from behind
her screen door. "Were they attacking me, or was I talking?" Steve
Laffey, a Republican running for the U.S. Senate from Rhode Island,
asks. It was an ad, the woman says. About your parents. Alzheimer's,
she says. Laffey's father has Alzheimer's. The ad is about the
working-class modesty of the Laffey family. The candidate is going
door to door on Lionel Avenue in Coventry, R.I., on a soft summer
evening. He is accompanied by...
