BREAKING: Snowe not running!!!!

[Mr.Phips]

What are you talking about? They control the state legislature. Of course they have a bench of electable candidates to run. And Democrats shouldn't be counting their chickens when Maine did after all elect Paul LePage.

Republicans won the state legislature because a bunch of fringe candidates got swept in by the wave in 2010.  Many of them would have zero chance of getting elected statewide in a neutral year.   LePage only won because of the wave and did so with 38%. 

[Mr.Phips]

Very surprising. I wonder if Dems will be more favored or less favored than they would be if Snowe was teabagged.

I for one am a bit sad... even if its a gain for the dems. It's good to have a moderating voice in each party... now there's one less in the republican party, which has few to begin with.

Agreed to an extent, the Republicans have so few moderates, and inevitably will control the Senate sometime in the next couple cycles.

They will probably get control for a term after 2014, but I dont see Republicans holding the Senate after 2016.  You think Toomey, Kirk, and Johnson can survive a Presidential year Democratic turnout?  Hell, even Richrard Burr and Roy Blunt will likely have tough races in a non-heavily Republican environment. 

[Mr.Phips]

It would be hilarious if both Michaud and Pingree's seats went for the GOP, and Republicans held the senate seat with someone more right-wing.

No way Republicans win Pingree's seat.  Obama won that seat by 63%-36% and even Kerry won it 56%-43%.