[Madame Dufarge]

The second day into the survey, the Pentagon announced that it was recommending that Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery and a military processing center in Limestone be closed, and that the Brunswick Naval Air Station be realigned.

This looks like the "it's all Bush's fault" escape clause.

[armymarinedad]

Let's look at the numbers.
Snowe 65%
Collins 58%
Allen 43%
Bush 31% (only got 45% in election)
Baldacci 29%
Michaud 29%
When you look at the numbers it looks good for Republicans. All Democrats have fallen below 50%. Bush lost this state with only 45% of the vote so his numbers have only fallen 14%. Far less than any of the Democrats. I understand our Senators are RINOs and far from conservative but we need to be careful. Changing peoples way of thinking is not an overnight job. It will take time to turn ME. into a conservative Republican state but we have a golden opportunity here. We need to find some conservative republicans in moderates clothing that can turn this state around.