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WASHINGTON – The Republican National Committee (RNC) today announced a new radio ad buy for “Obama Chooses Washington Over Our Military.” As Barack Obama travels to Paris, France, the radio ad will remind voters in Paris, MO; Paris, MI; and Paris, ME, that Obama’s politically expedient record has consistently put politics before the needs of our military.

 To listen to the RNC’s new radio ad, click here ­http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTCwKYQOGHs.

Title: “Obama Chooses Washington Over Our Military” :60 Radio Advertisement

 There are few votes as important as funding our men and women in uniform.

But when our military needed necessary resources, Barack Obama failed to stand up.

Obama said that nobody wanted to play chicken with our troops on the ground.

But when it came time to act, he voted against critical resources: no to individual body armor, no to helicopters, no to ammunition, no to aircraft.

The bill Obama opposed even had funding for veterans’ medical facilities and rehabilitation programs.

And why did he say no?

Mark Ellis has a post up at drivel del marcos:

So far, Tom Allen’s strategy has been to ignore the fact that he has a primary challenger and he’s been pretending that his challenger – Tom LeDue – doesn’t actually exist. Recently Democrats have been waking up to the fact that they actually have a choice for their party’s nominee for U.S. Senate and many are giving LeDue a closer look.

That fact hasn’t been lost on Allen. So in order to align himself more with his party’s activists, Tom Allen finished licking his finger and sticking it in the wind. Yesterday, he walked away from his long-standing relationship with the Clintons and endorsed Barack Obama for president.

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MaineWebReport posted on an article from The Hill that shows Susan Collins continuing to build her lead against Congressman Tom Allen:

"The most recent poll on the Maine Senate race shows Senator Collins extending her lead to 23 points from the last published poll in November, which showed her ahead of Tom Allen 54-34. From The Hill:

In Maine, Sen. Susan Collins (R) had a solid lead over Rep. Tom Allen (D), 54 percent to 31 percent. The poll of 400 likely voters March 6-9 had a 4.9-point error margin."

 The picture keeps looking worse and worse for Allen. Is it too late for him to try to get his House seat back?

More shenanigans from Maine Democrats. Appalling, but no surprise:

 http://mainewebreport.com/maine-democrats-try-kill-fiscal-watchdog-opega

Maine Democrats celebrated 'Sunshine Week' in Maine by trying ax the one program in state government that actually saves taxpayers money. Here's a press release from GOP Senator Kevin Raye. Discussions on this at AsMaineGoes (link) and PolitickerME (link)

AUGUSTA – State Senator Kevin Raye (R-Perry), the ranking Republican Senator on the Government Oversight Committee, today assailed the attempt by legislative Democrats to kill the Office of Program Evaluation and Government Accountability (OPEGA). The proposal was inserted in the majority budget shortly before midnight Thursday night.

Check out this post at Tom Allen Watch:

Representative Tom Allen is facing the bleak prospect of unemploymen this year, as he stares down the barrel of a 20 point deficit in his bid to unseat Maine Senator Susan Collins. Poll after poll has shown Allen's popularity hovering somewhere slightly above frost-heaves among Maine voters, and he's even having a hard time keeping Democrats interested. After sitting on his can for 12 years in Washington and getting nothing done, the Maine people aren't exactly thrilled at the prospect of giving him a promotion. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and Allen's game now seems to be to completely fabricate a record of accomplishment.