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    After votes on Kavanaugh and impeachment, Sen. Susan Collins faces tough reelection race yet

    by Jennifer Haberkorn, Los Angeles Times Mar 03, 2020 7 minutes

    FORT KENT, Maine - At the annual sled dog race in a part of far northern Maine where pine trees seem to outnumber people, nearly everyone has a Susan Collins story.

    One man painted Collins' brother's house. Others mention running into her at the grocery store or buying lumber from the family business that bears her name. And as she walked the crowd of Saturday morning's Can-Am Crown International Sled Dog Race, Collins, 67, is addressed merely as "Susan" by Mainers who feel like they know their four-term senator.

    But Collins' hard-won reputation as an independent-minded Republican moderate devoted to Maine - an image that enabled her to continue on as New England's last surviving GOP senator - is being put to the test this year in the most difficult reelection race of her career.

    And with control of the Senate at stake, it's become one of the highest-profile Senate races in the country, already prompting millions of dollars in spending by outside political groups.

    Democrats are building a case that Collins - despite her support for abortion rights and vote to

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