The Collins card is Ceci Connollyโs focus this morning:
BANGOR, MAINE โ A week ago, all eyes were on the senior senator from Maine, Republican Olympia J. Snowe, as she pondered the prospect of defying her party in support of a proposal to remake the nationโs health-care system.
But after she voted with Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee, the what-will-Olympia-do buzz subsided, and now the junior senator from Maine is the fence-sitting Republican in President Obamaโs sights.
Wherever Sen. Susan Collins goes these days, people crowd around, trying to divine which way she is leaning.
โHow does it feel to have everybody guessing?โ Richard Dudman, 91, asked her after a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Husson University.
In the annals of Maine, a quirky, sparsely populated state with outsize political influence, it is only fitting that the senators would be on the receiving end of so much attention. Both women have bucked the GOP before, most notably on Obamaโs $787 billion economic stimulus package, and both understand the on-the-ground realities that make Maine desperately in need of health-care reform yet deeply skeptical about its impact.






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