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May 13, 2005
Olympia Snowe: "45% of Americans" Are Moderates
As quoted in the New York Times, Senator Snowe hits the nail on the head about the precipitating peril of the GOP:
Ms. Snowe, meanwhile, had a message for fellow Republicans: "Frankly," she said, "the election of the president drew from Americans who describe themselves as moderates, which is about 45 percent of Americans today. That's something we overlook at our own peril."
And Senator Collins characterizes right wingism in Wash D.C. as "black and white" thinking:
By this week, Ms. Collins seemed a bit worn down by that debate. "It seems like it's issue after issue this year," she said, adding that she often envies "those senators for whom everything is black and white."
The NYT story, titled "Republican Moderates in Senate Sense Intensifying Pressures," is a concise sum up of the calculus of the Senate Republican moderates, namely these seven:
1. Senator Chafee
2. Senator Collins
3. Senator Snowe
4. Senator Specter
5. Senator McCain
6. Senator Hagel
7. Senator Voinovich
Of the seven identified by the NYT, there are four solid moderates--Chafee, Collins, Snowe, and Specter. And those four alone, along with Jeffords (if they all vote with the Democrats) will lose in an up or down simple majority vote, as Vice President Cheney breaks a tie.
Posted by wjbailes at May 13, 2005 01:58 PM
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