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September 26, 2006

Chafee rolls out first TV ad since primary battle

PROVIDENCE -- With just six weeks to go before the November election, U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee is rolling out his first television ad today for a race that polls show is extremely close.

The Rhode Island Republican's Democratic opponent, Sheldon Whitehouse, began airing ads the day after the primary, which was two weeks ago.

The ads for both candidates strike a mostly positive tone, with Chafee painting himself as a centrist and Whitehouse's ads saying a vote for him is a vote for change in Washington.

"For months I was attacked by the right for being too liberal, now I'm being attacked by the left for being to conservative," Chafee says in the new ad. "That puts me in the middle, where I've always been."

Brown University political scientist Darrell West says he's surprised it took so long for Chafee's campaign to run its first ad for the general election.

Chafee spokesman Ian Lang says the campaign felt now was the right time to run the ads.

Chafee is coming off an expensive and vicious primary against Cranston Mayor Stephen Laffey.

-- Associated Press

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