Will Senator Susan Collins comments on John Edwards have any effect on her campaign? That's what the Portland Press Herald asked retired political science professor Oliver Woshinsky today:

In connection with this election, I think it will have exactly zero effect. There are so many things that are going to happen between now and the election. The economy and oil prices are going to take absolute precedence, and the war is still on people's minds.

No offense to Mr. Woshinsky, but that's a big duh.

So while I still have your attention, and since I won't have it for much longer as this whole thing starts to die down, let me address something about our interview with Senator Collins. One question I see asked over and over on the comments in blogs and on the Press Herald's site is why we didn't ask Senator Collins about John McCain's past indiscretions. Answer: It's old news, and not the current water cooler talk among our target audience.

We asked the senator a year ago about Larry Craig when he was the talk of the nation, and she was also very candid with her opinion on that matter. We've even brought up silliness from John McCain previously which you can hear in our interview with Senator Collins here:

Senator Collins Interview 4/22/08

The thing I wonder most about this newsmaker we seemed to create, is would it have even been news if we didn't have the video? Would anyone have gotten the audio from our daily podcast?

Ain't the internet a crazy thing?