The spin on Chafee, the election is underway.

The Republicans are trying to spin Chafee's win as a great victory and evidence of their "superior" GOTV apparatus. I'm going to clip my own previous comment as an answer.

A well funded GOTV is very easy and extremely effective in Rhode Island. "With 99 percent of precincts reporting, Chafee had 34,042 votes, or 54 percent, to Laffey's 29,431 votes, or 46 percent." I mean, with the millions the RNC poured in, you can literally handhold 10,000 voters to create this landslide.

It's not Tennessee or Virginia, or Ohio, or Missouri. (although it is Montana.)

And, Laffey had no preexisting GOTV structure or framework. His lists and data must've been miniscule.

So, to some degree I think it's spin. I do think the GOP does have a better operation, but in this case, it was a tiny market against virtually no opposition.

This was the RNC "A" team with a whole lot of money working just two congressional districts.

(Chafee spent about $500,000 outside the RNC money and efforts, to identify and target 42,000 possible independents and Chafee leaning Dems. He only got 34,000 total votes. 20,000 disaffiliation forms were filed.)

Schumer's spin, "Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse got as many votes as the two Republicans combined in a Democratic primary that wasn’t close to competitive." (It's a very blue state - mike)

Also, see the spin picking up in Boehner's “I wonder if they’re more interested in protecting the terrorists than protecting the American people,” and this entire NYTimes story which seems to be buying the White House's narrative.

And, the smartest politician in the world, Claire McCaskill. Tell me that didn't get her three hours of lauding airtime.