Saturday, January 5, 2008
As Maine Goes...A Comment on the Senate Straw Poll

The January 3 post on Maine News, shown in the sidebar on my personal blog at http://lauriedobson.blogspot.com will stay up as the best indicator to date of my support in Maine. At this point, today, the race still shows me ahead of Collins. Tom, with help no doubt from his having to resort to Facebook and the Democratic Party's alertmobile, has finally pulled ahead of me.

It's a very questionable poll. In the first place, nobody is on the ballot yet, since they were just put out this week, so the public has yet to weigh in on their choice. They don't know me yet and how could they? I have not been reported as running in Maine's major papers, not through lack of effort! This is significant, since the Democratic Party is will aware of this race and has put time and money into it.

Despite the Dem push for Tom and the Rep push for Susan, I gained an early lead AND HELD IT for two days! Were the parties asleep at the wheel? I don't think so--maybe they just didn't exert themselves--until they saw that Laurie Dobson was beating the pants off them.

News of ME's poll was not fair, since there were adds for Allen posted directly above the poll and links were made to turnmaineblue, an openly and rapidlly pro-Allen political advertisement blog which has tried to vigorously denounce Dobson with slander. Nevertheless, Dobson showed 'em that she's in the race and she's hanging in there!

While I don't blame the blog for openly proselytizing for Allen, I don't think they should try to explain away the early success of Dobson as an accident. I guess you could explain Iowa that way to Hillary, also the anointed one from the Dems. But this year, anything goes and that goes for Maine. And as Maine goes, so they say....


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