this is just sad. people are such idiots.
No. People like you are for looking at a letter over quality
Are you implying that tweed would approve of Collins if she weren't a Republican?
the crucial issue is that she supports GOP control over the Senate, no matter now many nice things she says about gays or equal pay for women. RI voters understood this in 2006.
The difference between RI 2006 and the two Maine elections is that Chafee did not have the full support of state Republicans; he beat back a right-wing primary challenger just 51-49, and this weakened him to the extent that he lost. (And I don't know how invested in the campaign Chafee was; after leaving the Senate, he expressed a sentiment that he was glad he lost since that put the Senate under Democratic control.) I have to think that had Chafee been able to avoid the Laffey challenge and been more enthusiastic about campaigning (paradoxically, this would've been the case if he was slightly further to the
right, like Collins is) he would've been able to beat back Whitehouse.
