Stephen Laffey, the conservative challenger to liberal Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee, is now leading by a wide margin, 51%-34%,according to a poll by Rhode Island College. This primary has had an element of media uncertainly due to a dearth of publicly released polling, though last week Nachama Soloveichik, the Laffey campaign's communications director, told Election Central the campaign was "very optimistic" on their internal polling.

There's still no word, however, on whether or not the media will give this primary the same treatment — deriding the challenger as an extremist seeking to purge a moderate — that was given to the Connecticut Democratic Senate primary.