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that would be the modern narrative.

I don't think Collins is going down easy. She looked dead in the water going against a young well funded Dem. She was down in the polls and pulled out a safe win in an election Biden won by double digits. Maine works a little differently. We also haven't even heard everything on Platner. The Republicans have oppo on him and I would not be surprised if there are women who come forward who say he sexually assaulted them.

I can only hope Trump/Biden was the last gasp of their generation. For me, the number one sign of the intellectual and political bankruptcy of the old guard democratic party is that they are so addicted to the corporate money trough themselves that they never even tried to mount an organized constitutional amendment effort against CU which was the single most important thing any honest political party should have been doing. I'm just as happy to see all these corporate whores go away. I loved Joe Biden but he made the worst mistake of a lot of people's lives by overestimating himself.

She also didn't seem to want to put in the work of running... voters can sense that from a mile away. There's good reason to have mistrust of Graham Platner, just feel that it's not surprising that he won and, if the environment stays the way it is, nobody should be surprised to see him beat Collins.

Tell me one thing Platner is proposing that is a new idea?

And that is by electing senators like Fetterman who are fixtures on Fox News? The public is stupid and things Democrats have some sort of magic they could be doing to stop Trump as the minority party. The Dems did beat Trump and got the most votes ever but they never supported their candidate and pissed all over themselves and threw him under the bus.

The public at large hates the Democratic Party only slightly less than it now hates the GOP. If the Dems are ever going to become a real force for social change in the US again, win big enough majorities to actual govern, the party is going to get rebuilt by a new leadership with a new set of ideas and a different appeal than the party that couldn't beat Trump twice.

Schumer has gotten a lot of good candidates to run. Mills was the best candidate for Maine.

Don't disagree. But that just demonstrates how much Schumer's org is out of gas itself.

No, Fetterman ran as a leftist. Connor Lamb ran as a moderate. Fetterman was supported by Bernie Sanders for Crhist sakes.

LOL Maine is like the oldest state in the country and just elected 80 year old Angus King. They also just recently elected Janet Mills who is apparently too old now. Platner is supported by 83 year old Bernie Sanders. The same people that support Platner support 80 year old Ed Markey. No, Platner's parents just bought him his oyster farm. I don't think Mills wanted to run. I think she was pushed into it and ran a half hearted campaign.

he's running as a progressive, completely the opposite of Fetterman, who ran as a conservative dem. I'm with MTU - not my state, not my fight, but I'm glad you guys don't vote in Maine.

They almost made the comeback

which means what? Anybody can use the internet to raise money - dem candidates have done it from Obama to AOC. If you can't raise party funds and you can't raise direct funds, you have lost your audience, or you have a campaign org stuck in the past, or both. Mills biggest problem was that she is 78, and while the people of Maine love her, nobody wants 78 anymore. Platner's parents may have been wealthy but at least they didn't buy him out of his military service. The risk with Platner is that the big rallies, where he apparently shines, don't necessarily translate in the GE - ask Kamala.

Jim Joyce? didn’t he also author Galarraga and The Imperfect Game?

I was in TN last week and tried to watch the tigers on my phone. Middle TN is apparently Reds territory. It’s a 4 hour drive past Cincy. It’s also Braves territory.

That dude is a billionaire.

I was listening to this game driving up to the mountains in Central Idaho for the day and just when the Tigers had a 3–2 lead in the eighth I thought OMG they’ll bring Kenley out! Then I drove into a kind of ravine where there was no cell phone signal, and when the signal finally came back, it was the last pitch for Finnegan. So I missed two runs being scored in the top of the ninth and all of Finnegan but for the last pitch, and the joy of no Kenley, but dammit it was sweet.

Hawks aren't doing the tanking thing right.

more importantly...the celtics are losing.

lolhawks

Mills ran out of money. She has won elections in Maine multiple times by some of the largest margins by a Democrat. The issue isn't that Platner is a mole, he's a grifter and like Trump he saw his opportunity to take advantage. His parents are wealthy. He wasn't poor oyster farmer.

Platner is worse than Fetterman. He's Tulsi Gabbard.

Do we really expect this Platner fella to caucus with Dems and champion progressive policies, or even center left positions? I don’t.

If he votes with the Dems then it’s a plus.