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aaafirefly123 46 points ago +46 / -0

She’s probably waiting to see if her vote actually matters.

No point in damaging her credibility as a liberal republican if we already have enough votes without her.

I think she will vote yes if and only if her vote is actually necessary for it to get done, otherwise she will vote no to keep her appeal as a liberal republican. After all she comes form a VERY liberal state, her very presence denies the Democrats a seat when they needed it most (Impeachment and Kavanaugh.)

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fungus_amungus 23 points ago +23 / -0

The problem with that logic is that a "no" vote would completely tank her with the Republican constituency in Maine. It may be a lean blue state, but the Republican voters are just as as red-blooded as me or you. If she votes "no" on a floor vote, it will guarantee her a loss on election day.

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Block_Helen 15 points ago +15 / -0

I see it your way, but she knows her state. She has to figure out which choice loses her more voters. She might make the wrong one this time. It's a hard election to read. I'm not going to ding her because we cannot afford to lose a single seat in the Senate this November. Even a RINO seat.

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aaafirefly123 10 points ago +10 / -0

She will run out a few test polls in her district to see what her constituents think.

If they favor a yes, she will vote yes, if they favor a no, she will vote no.

Collins might be a RINO, but she is a smart RINO that knows when to vote along party lines.

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SigSeikoSpyderco 3 points ago +4 / -1

My hunch is that Mitch is going to give her the leeway to decide if that saves her seat, as he has the votes without her.

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Granite_MAGA 5 points ago +5 / -0

Her campaign signs all feature Trump and she is banking hard on the Trump Train to keep her job. Even RINO Collins is on the chopping block as "new Mainers" from Somalia are flooding Portland and Lewiston.

She is definitely going to be watching this and we need to flood her office with the message that if you cuck on Trump, voters are gonna dump your ass.

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Strategerium 8 points ago +8 / -0

My distrust with Collins is she doesn't seem onboard with the new electoral mechanics/targeted research. The fact she is from a lean blue state is more reason she should have been more prepared, more wargamed than a red state senator, but she never seems ready. She always seems to make her voting decision in a very touchy-feeling, rather than numbers based way. This has made her vulnerable to the loud liberal voices in her state. Had she and her team spent to the time previously to poll and research and may side with Trump to shore up the "law and order" vote when the riots were loudest she would not the problem. Maine is also a retirement state, failing to capture a voting demographic based on traditional sense of social and economic stability shouldn't have been a hard exercise of political imagination to test and to message. That would have given her buffer to vote yes.

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Granite_MAGA 4 points ago +4 / -0

She always seems to make her voting decision in a very touchy-feeling, rather than numbers based way

You don't say.

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doug2 1 point ago +1 / -0

That's what they said about kava NAAAA

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yukondave 2 points ago +2 / -0

I think she is most likely to abstain and state that she is present. That means she will stay out of the vote which does not really hurt us either.

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okayfilet 1 point ago +1 / -0

She should take the high road and STAY THE FUCK AWAY.