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Priceless headline!

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I've never understood her appeal. (Olympia Snowe's, yes—she at least had a personality.)

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Mainers like to be seen as people who dance to their own drum. That's a major reason why.

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Does she really though? It seems like she only does when it doesn’t make a difference.

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Harry Reid said he could always count on her vote when he didn't need it, FWIW.

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Isn't Susan Collins perceived as being similar to Olympia Snowe? They were called "the Maine Twins" when they were both in Senate. Ironically, though, the two of them have never really liked each other.

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That probably had more to do with their status as an all-female Senate delegation (they were the second; Feinstein and Boxer were the first).

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As a fun little tidbit to go with that: NH had the first all-female congressional delegation.

When Carol Shea-Porter defeated Guinta in a rematch in 2012 we had her, Kuster, Ayotte, and Shaheen in congress. Guinta won a re-re-match in 2014, then Porter won a re-re-re-rematch in 2016, where Ayotte lost but was replaced by Hassan, another woman.

NH had both the first and second all-female congressional delegations, and the first all-female congressional delegation made up entirely by one political party.

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Yep, Pennsylvania leaves a lot to be desired in that department (we've never elected a female governor or senator), but when the ridiculous GOP gerrymander was finally tossed in 2018 we immediately elected four Democratic women to the House (Madeleine Dean, Chrissy Houlahan, Mary Gay Scanlon, and Susan Wild), and that felt pretty awesome.

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Oops, scratch that; they were the third (I forgot about Kansas being represented briefly by Nancy Kassebaum Baker and Sheila Frahm in 1996).

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Snowe was a lot more genuine than Collins and a lot less annoying.

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Agreed. Collins is still cruising on that moderate legacy of the era when Olympia Snowe was the senior Senator.

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Also Snowe never went under 60% in any of her senate elections. Collins was reelected with 51% last time.

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