Olympia Snowe: VERY pro-choice (I'm pro-life, and she's against a ban on partial birth abortion I think, or at least has been, although that may have been because she wanted a "life of the mother" exception in the bill); on economic issues, she will sometimes get my hopes up that she will oppose aspects of President Bush's plans to a greater extent than she ends up doing (she proposed a plan to "trigger" Bush's original tax cuts to something (I'm not sure what) that would probably have resulted in a much lower deficit today, although hardly anyone at that time expected something like the 9/11 attacks and the resulting recession or resumption/continuation/deepening thereof to happen); also, her efforts to hide her bulldog-like nature that nearly cost her re-election in 1990 have not fully succeeded as far as I am concerned.
Susan Collins: also VERY pro-choice, too supportive of Bush on the economy, and then there's HER VOICE - most of you have probably heard her on the news, as she is now Chairwoman of the Senate Armed Services Committee; can you imagine haveing had to listen to that voice as even a not-very attentive local news watcher at the frequency one would hear their senator or a candidate for the Senate in a competitive race on the news for almost 9 years? My parents are fairly consistent news watchers, so I'm surprised our TV screen hasn't broken to pieces.
