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Line 2: − + − − Critical Insights — an independent polling firm in Portland, Maine — showed that she is leading Allen statewide 57% to 30%. Independent Senator [[Joe Lieberman]] has stated publicly that he plans to campaign for Senator Collins' reelection. Collins is currently the longest-serving Senator to have never missed a roll call vote.
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'''Susan Margaret Collins''' (born December 7, 1952, in Caribou, Maine) is the junior U.S. Senator from [[Maine]] and a member of the [[Republican]] party. Serving in a [[liberal]] state, Collins is frequently labeled as a Republican in Name Only ([[RINO]]). She often breaks with her party and voted with the [[Democrat]]s in support of [[partial-birth abortion]] and [[gay rights]].
'''Susan Margaret Collins''' (born December 7, 1952, in Caribou, Maine) is the junior U.S. Senator from [[Maine]] and a member of the [[Republican]] party. Serving in a [[liberal]] state, Collins is frequently labeled as a Republican in Name Only ([[RINO]]). She often breaks with her party and voted with the [[Democrat]]s in support of [[partial-birth abortion]] and [[gay rights]].
While she voted with the majority of the [[Senate]] in favor of the 2002 "[[Iraq War]] Resolution" authorizing President [[George W. Bush]] to go to war against [[Iraq]], she cosponsored a non-binding resolution with three other [[liberal]] Republican Senators that showed the Senate's disapproval of the President's plan to send 21,500 more troops to Iraq in January of 2007. Collins is running for reelection in 2008 against Democratic Congressman [[Tom Allen]].
While she voted with the majority of the [[Senate]] in favor of the 2002 "[[Iraq War]] Resolution" authorizing President [[George W. Bush]] to go to war against [[Iraq]], she cosponsored a non-binding resolution with three other [[liberal]] Republican Senators that showed the Senate's disapproval of the President's plan to send 21,500 more troops to Iraq in January of 2007. Collins was reelected to a third term in the U.S. Senate in 2008.
==Biography==
==Biography==