Posted on 09/04/2009 5:47:18 AM PDT by bestintxas
Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe has shown throughout her career that when it comes to voting, it's her principles and constituents that guide her, not her party.
Sen. Olympia Snowe has received overwhelming support from her constituents in past elections.
Those principles, analysts note, are guiding her to find a compromise on health care reform currently stalemated in Congress.
Jennifer Duffy, who follows the Senate for the Cook Political Report, said Snowe's independent streak is "not new behavior for her."
"I think they [Republicans] also realize that the only reason that the state of Maine has two Republican senators at all is the fact that they are very independent-minded and they vote their state," she said, referring to Snowe and Sen. Susan Collins.
In fact, some estimates place Snowe as having voted with her party only 57 percent of the time in the current Congress.
While her moderate views are at odds with GOP opposition to several of President Obama's economic plans this year, the senator's constituents seem to agree with her.
In 2006, she won re-election with 74 percent of the vote, compared to her Democratic opponent's 21 percent. In 2000, Snowe received 69 percent of the vote.
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It’s not her party.
Senator Snowe, out you go!
....the Lefty MSM always likes to talk up a RINO
Missed it by one letter.
CNN giving snow the mccain treatment.
She must be seen as a useful idiot to counter palin.
Such a shriveled old prune.
No, she isn’t afraid to buck her party because time and time again she has voted with the Democrats. She is a Democrat. RINO......
Now she’s a Democratic news media hero because she sells out.
“Now she’s a Democratic news media hero because she sells out.”
Sounds familiar to waht the press made out of McCain, doesn’t it? Those who buck their own party are celebrated as heros(except if you buck Dems, you are traitors)
Why doesn’t she just change to being a democrat and quit breking our hearts. That would fully give the dems a total veto proof senate! She’s worthless, at best!
And how many Democrats have EVER been described by CNN as “Not afraid to buck their party”? None, zip. More soft-propaganda from the MSM.
The people of Maine keep re-electing those two idiots.
She wouldn’t dare go against the Democrats!
What else is new? Someone needs to ask the woman how she defines “republican” - is it just about ..abolition???? GEEEESH!
Sen. Snowe , one of the reasons I told the last Republican telemarketer they will not get a dime from me.
nothing like a Rino to ‘lead’ the way
here’s a bunch more that the same may apply to..
http://www.republicanmainstreet.org/index.php/ElectedMembers
I’d like to know what motivates sh_tbirds like Snowe and Collins to join a political party and then work 24/7 to undermine that party.
I cannot remember one time when they haven’t stabbed us in the back.
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