The dems are going to have to wait awhile if they want to target Olympia Snowe (Rino, Maine). She was re-elected to a 6 year Senate term in November, 2006, so she’s not up for re-election again until 2012, a life-time away, or so it seems. I held my nose and voted for her....there was no alternative. The democrat who challenged her, Jean Hay-Bright, was anything BUT bright.....she was an anti-war moonbat on the order of Cindy Sheehan, except much older.
A third party guy also ran, but he, too, was a moonbat.
Olympia Snowe received 71% of the vote.
Susan Collins is up for re-election in 2008. First district
(southern Maine)democrat Congressman Tom Allen is going to challenge her, but he is an ultra-liberal.
Conservative Republicans exist in Maine on the State level, but not on the federal level, I’m sorry to say.
Yep, I get them confused.
And unfortunately, to them everything becomes abortion, which means they alienate most Maine voters by giving only lip service to other things Mainers do care about: Smith vs. Jones on taxes? On the federal budget? On the WOT? The First Amendment? The Fourth? Fine, but first, where do Smith and Jones stand on abortion?
Basically, Collins is bulletproof unless conservatives are willing to vote for whatever tree-hugging whale mollester the Dems put up.