Is Olympia Snowe thinking about her future?

This piece in Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire caught my attention:

clipped from politicalwire.com Snowe’s Constituents Back Obama Plan A new Democracy Corps poll in Maine finds that Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) “enjoys broad support in her home state, but she faces significant political problems if she opposes President Obama’s health insurance reform.” Specifically, a Snowe vote against a reform bill “results in Mainers evenly divided on whether she should be re-elected, while support for Obama’s plan produces 53% who want to re-elect Snowe compared to 38% who want someone new as U.S. Senator.” In addition, Mainers “overwhelmingly support a government sponsored non-profit health insurance option, 63% to 27%.

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