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The photo has nothing to do with the fact that Tom Allen and Susan Collins debate, this evening at the WCSH studio in Portland, and tomorrow evening at the Hannaford Hall on the USM campus in Portland. It simply beautiful, and compared to the McCaine/Palin mess, and the Hate Hillary mess before it, politics in Maine is a thing of ... unsurpassed lack of ugliness.

Susan will have a chance to make the case that the existing for-profit health insurance regime is the better choice for limiting access to medical care, and that the well documented wastage in paper handling and the "responsible party" chase are better than Medicare for everyone. She also has the chance to make the case that the wealthy really have the better plan for the economy, that the energy industry remains the better choice for the custodian of energy policy, and that things are going swimmingly in Iraq and Afghanistan.

I wish I could be present. If Susan Collins can make the case that she is the better choice for middle class and small businesses and swing the independent and persuadable margins of both parties it will be a rhetorical triumph on par with Richard Nixon's "I have a plan" device.

Here's the link to the Act Blue page to support Tom.