Snowe and Collins to follow Specter after 2010?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

They are the MAine GOP. Scores of STate Reps and States SEnators have come up through the campaigns and staff of either Snowe or Collins or both. If the GOP wins the Governorship or a House seat by some slim chance or whatever they will have had work for at least one of the two Maine ladies on there resume. For them to switch it would mean abandoning a state organization they control almost entirely for little or no gain nationally. I think that both these ladies have always been more focused on there states then anything. \

What path is the GOP on that leads them to destruction. I hardly think the same National organization that recruited Mark Kirk, Rob Simmons, Charlie Crist, and tried like hell for Mike Castle and George Pataki is going to "drive them out". Certainly the base can be a threat but they have little reach accross the Hudson.

Also if the Dems won't need them then they likely will have little rewards for switching. If they were going to switch the would have done it after 2002 when we were at 51 or when we were at 41 and gone with Specter. Its not going to happen.