The Portland Press-Herald reports:
Sen. Olympia Snowe says she didn’t make up her mind not to seek re-election until Tuesday, the day she made her shocking announcement.
“It was back and forth in my head,” Snowe said in a phone interview Wednesday night. “I didn’t make the final decision until literally yesterday.”
After months of activity gearing up her campaign to run for a fourth term, her 65th birthday, on Feb. 21, helped her realize that perhaps she didn’t want another six years in a Senate that she had come to regard as paralyzed by partisanship, said Snowe, a Republican.
