Rhode Island votes the same day than Texas and Ohio.
I am not going to comment on the fact you didn't seem to know that.

Chafee is more of a liberal on foreign policy than Hillary. I actually have no idea why Chafee was even calling himself a Republican.

He recently wrote in his memoir that Hillary showed absolutely no leadership when she followed the obvious bullshit Bush/Cheney were feeding the Congress in the lead up to the war, and she supported the whole way. He was very critical of Hillary, basically calling her a political opportunist (no way!). So really this comes as no surprise. Chafee was a Republican in name only, I was almost sad to see him go, only we replaced him with a D, so it was okay (he said the Republicans deserved to get kicked out too).

i really like Chafee. he seems like a genuinely affable, concerned, thoughtful guy. i could care less about his party, his kind of character is who we want on our side.

oh, and he did absolutely shred the Democratic senators who voted for the AUMF in his book.

The endorsement is big if RI has an open primary. This could help indies and GOP voters to cross over and vote Obama.

He said that he was told (by a respected Dem senator) that Dem senators who voted for the IWR did so because they were afraid the war would be short and that the price of gas would go down, and they didn't want to be on the wrong side of that.

Not only were they craven and self-interested, they were stupid.

Ah, hell, I still like Whitehouse notwithstanding his endorsement of Hillary. Always liked Chaffee, too, though. Liked him even more when he came out in his memoirs and congratulated the voters of his state for making the connection between getting rid of him, even though they liked him, and getting the Republicans out of the majority.

I am so proud of my former senator. Way to go, Lincoln.

Chaffee's still a popular guy in the Ocean State; the voters who threw him out mostly objected to his caucusing with the GOP and to some of the votes that resulted.

Rhode Island has some 236,000 registered Democrats and almost 353,000 unaffiliated voters, according to the state. Chaffee's endorsement will carry some weight even with the Democrats - it's a small state, and an unbelievable number of voters have personal relationships with his family. But it'll have its biggest impact among the unaffiliated. The small-town aspect of Rhode Island allows endorsements to carry more than their usual weight. So yeah, all in all, I'd say it's a good morning for the Obama campaign.

The Wall Street Journal provides a snapshot of life inside Hillaryland: "But the campaign has something of a shellshocked feel, as staffers privately chew over a blowup last week where internal frictions flared into the open. Clinton campaign operatives say it happened as top Clinton advisers gathered in Arlington, Va., campaign headquarters to preview a TV commercial. ‘Your ad doesn't work,’ strategist Mark Penn yelled at ad-maker Mandy Grunwald. ‘The execution is all wrong,’ he said, according to the operatives. ‘Oh, it's always the ad, never the message,’ Ms. Grunwald fired back, say the operatives. The clash got so heated that political director Guy Cecil left the room, saying, ‘I'm out of here.’”

Chaffee has HUGE juice in Rhode Island. It is as if the entire state, including Democrats, including some of Whitehouse's biggest supporters, feel like they owe him one because they had to sacrifice him to make sure we took the Senate for the Dems.

It is not entirely rational, but it is there. If anything, he is even more popular in defeat.

This is excellent news. I'm a lifelong Dem, but I've always respected Chafee. People like to demonize Obama for his ability to appeal to moderate Republicans (Obamacans?), but they seem to have lost sight of the word we omit: Moderate Republican AMERICANS. If we can't work with anyone on the other side of the aisle, that says a great deal about where we are as a party.

Obama will see McCain's Lieberman, and raise him Lincoln Chafee.

I cant understand why if obama is a great progressive why we are happy moderate republicans endorse him-how can chafee-a corporate moderate eastern republican(who i admit was right on the war and better than many others) endorse obama if he is truly progressive-and this is my concern. I disagree with chafee and the "moderate" republicans as well as bush on some major things. I certainly know chafee doesnt support progressive ideas such as health ins, raising minimun wage, and i think bush tax cuts- so if obama is attractive to him maybe he not a libertal aftrr all-in fact if he appeals to so many republicans haow will he be able to propose a liberal agenda and not alienate repugs-eventually policy trumps rhetoric- I voted for Obama(although i feel like i joined a religeous cult)-ifm it turns out i voted for a moderate chafee type, we will have missed our chance and this country will be in bad shape.
the bottom line is if obama is a liberal it would be nice to show it even if it pisses off the chafees in the world. and to all obama supporters who will attack me - rermember your guy is supposed to be different forthright a straight shooter -well is a liberal or repug moderate and how much farther right will he go satify these moderate repugs and build his coalition. I hope I'm wrong but for the same reason i don't believe heavily in religon -i prefer facts to hope and faith

Chafee knows Republican-lite when he sees it. Code: Vote Obama--A Democrat Republicans Can Love.

He said he wouldn't consider supporting a candidate who supported the Iraq War, which he opposed, so that ruled out Sen. Clinton.