Whitehouse winning the money race
2006-10-11
Source: Providence Journal
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rss feedWhile some polls peg the U.S. Senate race as a dead heat, Democratic candidate Sheldon Whitehouse appears to be winning the money side of the contest hands down.
The former Rhode Island attorney general breezed through the primary last month with a two-to-one cash advantage over incumbent Lincoln D. Chafee, who survived his own, more-difficult GOP primary bruised, battered and relatively poor.
Chafee is trying to push back.
Yesterday, for example, he sought to undercut a central Whitehouse theme - that shifting control over the U.S. Senate from Republicans to Democrats would change "the direction of our nation."
In a sharply worded campaign statement, he noted that the Senate was under Democratic control - with South Dakota Democrat Tom Daschle the majority leader - when it approved the use of force in Iraq in October 2002.
The Senate approved the war resolution on a 77-to-23 vote, with Daschle, current Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid and other high-profile Democrats, including John Kerry and Hillary Clinton, voting for it while - Chafee noted - he was the only Republican to vote against it.
"Despite the highly emotional state of our nation following the attacks of September 11, 2001, the senator acted rationally, in the best interest of our state and our nation, even though at the time it was at his political detriment," said Chafee campaign manager Ian Lang.
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