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Susan Collins

Republican · U.S. Senator, Maine · Maine · Spectrum score +18

Senate · 2026 ballot ·

Susan Collins is U.S. Senator, Maine in Maine. Political positions and ideology score +18 (Center-right). Collins is covered as a swing vote.

College: St. Lawrence University, B.A. 1975
Spouse: Thomas Daffron (m. 2012)
Children: None on the public record
Résumé: U.S. Senator · Maine · 1997–
New England administrator · SBA · 1992–1997
Commissioner · Maine Department of Professional and Financial Regulation · 1987–1992

Net worth: $6.5M
Salary: $174,000
Before office: $500K
2026 raised: $16.0M
Years in office: 29

Where Susan stands on the spectrum

Susan Collins scores +18 on Spectrum’s left–right line (center-right), mixed on economic issues and mixed on social issues. The number is modeled from twelve issue positions and the public record — not a poll and not a party label.

Composite +18 · Center-right · economic +21 · social +22 · authoritarian +11

Confidence 94. How we calculate scores →

Background & record

Collins is covered as a swing vote. The file is a senator who has been a swing vote so long it became a business: health-industry money, shipyard money, and a national donor list that pays to keep the coin in the air. Maine is the setting. The customers are not.

Finances

Modeled midpoints from public disclosures — not an audit of any household.

Net worth

$6.5M

+1200% since taking office

Senate disclosure midpoint, 2024

Before office$500K

Now$6.5M

The moderate premium: she raises from both K Streets. A Maine house and a D.C. career that outlasted the party’s move right.

Money in · 2026 cycle

Raised: $16.0M
Cash on hand: $7.2M

Top industries

Health
Finance
Defense (Bath Iron Works)
Lawyers

Stock holdings

Individual common stock

A moderate’s book: funds, some health names, Bath Iron Works’ state in the background.

Senate disclosure, 2024 · STOCK Act ranges, not an audit

VTI
Index funds
Joint
$250K–$500K
UNH
UnitedHealth Group
Joint · Health votes
$50K–$100K
JNJ
Johnson & Johnson
Joint
$15K–$50K

Ticker	Name	Owner	Range
VTI	Index funds	Joint	$250K–$500K
UNH	UnitedHealth GroupHealth votes	Joint	$50K–$100K
JNJ	Johnson & Johnson	Joint	$15K–$50K

Sum of ranges $315K–$650K · midpoint $483K

X sentiment

Last 7 days

Odds

Polymarket · Kalshi

Implied probability from open contracts. Real money, not a poll. Updates while you sit here.

Live wire

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Conflicts

Kavanaugh and ACA votes as a national fundraising event from opposite sides in different years.
Bath Iron Works / Pentagon money in a ‘independent’ brand.

Issue detail

−100 left pole · +100 right pole

Economic: +21
Social: +22
Authoritarian: +11
Confidence: 94

Taxes & spending+30
Lower taxes, smaller fiscal footprint
Health care+10
Private insurance markets, fewer mandates
Climate & energy+10
Energy abundance, fewer climate mandates
Business regulation+28
Deregulation and lighter administrative state
Labor & wages+24
Flexible labor markets, right-to-work
Immigration+30
Tighter borders, more deportations
Abortion-2
Legal access, opposed to bans
Guns+34
Broad Second Amendment, fewer federal limits
Crime & policing+32
More policing, longer sentences, less bail reform
Schools & speech+24
Choice, against gender/DEI curricula
Defense & alliances+34
Hard power, high defense spending, deterrence
Civil liberties+14
Order, platform / campus / speech restrictions for security or morality

Legislative first dimension (NOMINATE-like): 0.11

Compass

Auth · leftAuth · rightLib · leftLib · rightAuthoritarianLibertarianEconomic leftEconomic right

Sources

DW-NOMINATE ~0.11
Wealth and fundraising are modeled midpoints from public disclosures — not an audit.
College, family, and résumé are public-record facts, not a campaign bio.