You may have had an inkling of this already, but here's the official stat: the Providence metro area is the 45th most Democratic county in America. I don't know what this means, exactly, since parts of the metro area are actually in two different counties (three if you count Massachusetts). But then, we don't do counties in the Biggest Little, unless it's ficticious and overrun by Connecticutians and New Yorkers in the summertime.
Just thought you'd like to know that. The RI [GOP] Politics listserv people would surely get a kick out of it. Link via Kevin Drum.