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Collins has seemed a weak candidate (she was one of our few GOP candidates to lose in 1994 when she ran for Governor, coming in 3rd place),

I wouldn't hold that run against her in terms of elective success. It just wasn't happening that year, no face time or money, though she made a good impression on the electorate. We elected a conservative reformer (or, alternatively, ex-Democrat Angus King) instead.

Ever since she got to run against Joe Brennan she's been pretty golden. Sometimes all you need is that one big break.

20 posted on 02/26/2007 7:31:24 AM PST by JohnnyZ ("I respect and will protect a woman's right to choose" -- Mitt Romney, April 2002)

Angus King, a Conservative reformer ? King just struck me as nothing but a liberal rodent. I don't think Maine has had a halfway decent Governor since Jim Longley, Sr. in the late '70s.

21 posted on 02/26/2007 7:48:03 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Cheney X -- Destroying the Liberal Democrat Traitors By Any Means Necessary -- Ya Dig ? Sho 'Nuff.)