Poll: Huge Majority Of Mainers Wants Snowe To Break Ranks With GOP

[babylonsister]

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/senate-republicans/poll-huge-majority-of-mainers-wants-snowe-to-break-ranks-with-gop/

Poll: Huge Majority Of Mainers Wants Snowe To Break Ranks With GOP


With Olympia Snowe pondering whether to break ranks with the GOP and support a health care compromise, the new Democracy Corps poll contains a somewhat relevant finding: A huge majority of her constituents want her to do just that!

Mainers think Republicans aren’t serious about reform and don’t care about bipartisanship for its own sake, the poll finds. Check out these numbers:

* By 50 to 39 percent, voters in Maine believe Republicans in Congress “aren’t being constructive and just want Obama to fail” rather than that they “are playing a constructive role in improving a health care reform bill.”

* By 62 to 29 percent, Mainers believe President Obama “has made an effort to reach out to Republicans on health care reform” rather than that he “has ignored Republicans’ ideas on health care reform.”

* And by 64 to 28 percent, they feel Senator Snowe “should vote for the health care bill if she thinks it’s a good bill even if she is the only Republican who supports it” rather than that she “should only vote for the health care bill if it is a bipartisan bill that other Republicans are willing to support.”

This is coming from a Dem firm, admittedly, but the questions seem well-framed, and these are striking numbers.

Snowe has been making mildly critical public statements about the GOP that seem designed to pave the way for an eventual break with the party on health care. Seems like the sentiments of her own constituents give her plenty of cover to make that break, too.

[rockymountaindem]

1. Maybe they should, oh, I don't know, STOP VOTING FOR HER!!!

Sorry, I lost it there.

[Joe the Liberal]

3. +10 n/t

[Jennicut]

2. Well, it is New England. She was not elected all these times as a conservative.

I really think that whatever happens to healthcare, more people will blame the do nothing Rethugs.

[cali]

4. Dear Mainiacs, it's time you sent Snowe and Collins packing.

[timeforpeace]

5. All we need is 61 votes in the Senate, then things will be different!

[DJ13]

6. Snowe has been pretty adept at playing both sides

She cons her mostly liberal constituents into voting for her repeatedly, then runs straight into the arms of her conservative colleagues as soon as she's re-sworn into office.

Sure she makes anti-conservative noises once in a while to keep the rubes at home happy, but until she completely breaks ranks with the conservatives the least our party can do is to leave her twirling in the wind with her conservative friends and stop playing up to her.

Maybe if she loses her importance to our party her constituents would actually stop believing her bullshit and vote for a real liberal next time.