Good one for the tech crowd found via Senate 2008 Guru:

Maine Coast Now has a really interesting story up about Senator Susan Collins who is crying fowl of her opposition’s tactics. Apparently the opposing political party is following her around and videotaping her appearances. A practice that of course has lead to interesting revelations in the past, think George Allen, and is becoming pretty standard on the campaign trail.

Collins doesn’t like being on the record in this way and so her campaign leaked a letter she sent to Democratic challenger Tom Allen expressing her discontent and asking that the practice be stopped. Interestingly enough though Maine Coast Now sees political maneuvering on Collins part pointing out that she did something similar in her last bid.

Apparently Collins at the time floated a story very close to the election which made it seem like her previous opponent was up to dirty tricks. His crime? Doing opposition research, pretty standard in a campaign. Because of the way a slew of articles were written and because it was so close to the election an impression was given that her opponent had hired some kind of political “hit-man”.

Those article of course were written by a journalist who was later linked to the campaign. How? Through e-mail which detailed the close relationship.

The joy of tech!

Senate 2008 Guru points to some evidence that things aren’t looking good for Republican Senators in 2008.

Reports on Minnesota, Oklahoma, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, Kentucky, Illinois.

I am still putting together the 2008 Senate Section of ElectionGeek but while you are waiting I discovered the site Senate 2008 Guru which might keep you occupied and informed.

Interesting article over at Washington Post (via Wonkette) detailing how 2008 Congressional candidates are using the duck and cover strategy when dealing with the Iraq issue.

Air America Radio the ‘liberal alternative to conservative talk’ has been on shaky ground since its beginning. Every year it seems another round of speculation comes that the network will go bankrupt and every year it seems someone steps in to save the company from bankruptcy.

Al Franken, former SNL writer, author of numerous books and full time radio talk show personality on the network (and founding member) announced his departure from the airwaves just as Air America was getting saved again. The move seems permanent, at least for the next few years, as many believe Franken will announce his candidacy for the Senate in Minnesota.

The Senate races for 2008 has been much slower to ramp up then the Presidential so I haven’t blogged much. Franken though offers a big name to the lineup and will surely add for some unique soundbytes, campaign rhetoric and a lot of interesting and heated backlash from the right which he has lampooned for so long.