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One angle is just that, that the party rank and file are out of patience with the national party for setting them up with losers. And that is Platner's potential weakness - do the folks excited about Platner (and a lot clearly are) represent a winning voting coalition in the state or just themselves as the activist/progressive wing?

Yeah, Kenny inherited the two best players in the world. It is a failure that they did not win one together. One thing about Stevie is that i think if he had wanted to pull off the Hughes trade, with no extension or promise of extension in place, he could have. And the fans would have loved it and the press would have loved it and the players would have loved it. There are some out there on twitter and elsewhere who complain that Stevie didn’t have the guts to make the big trade. If anything, it probably took more guts not to make it. But he is a Red Wing for life and he absolutely will not make a move that he believes will make the team worse.

I’m voting for Stevens. I don’t like rat****ers who disenfranchise me as a voter. I can cone around on McMorrow. I will not ever vote for El-Sayed. It will be the first time in 25 years of voting that I do not vote on the Democratic ticket.

McMorrow wants to be a normal progressive but the far left is insane and she doesn’t have a lane.

Once you get to a certain point, all more money gets you is more TV, but TV has a too many competitors today to be the whole game, so in this era the money effect goes flatline at a certain point. Musk has found that out in a few races he dropped big $$$ into.

It is funny seeing criticism of McMorrow here. She is is one of the few politicians I have seen in recent years that I can stand listening to.

She wasn’t getting the outside funding like Platner. She actually got more donations from Mainers. It does cost a fortune in Maine actually because republicans are going to drop $50-60 million into the race. It’s probably going to be one of the more expensive races in the countries because Collins is the most vulnerable republican.

so... then if they love old candidates what was wrong with Mills that no-one was stepping up to support her financially? It doesn't take a fortune to run in Maine. A candidate that was attracting support and had a functional internet fund-raising link should not have had to drop out for lack of funds. Candidates in the last few cycles have proved over and over again that you don't the party to raise money if you are attracting supporters - and Mills supposedly had Schumer's support - so why was she broke? That's actually the part in this that to me doesn't add up. If Mills was the establishment/party candidate, how is she broke? Did the party and establishment donors cut her off? If so, why? Did they already sense she was a lost cause? Is she not really broke but using that as an excuse to get out of a campaign she decided she didn't want to be in? Pretty odd all the way around.

Democrats need to put their money where their mouth is at. Markey needs to drop out. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren need to announce they aren’t going to run for reelection. Enough of this selective ageism.

Well as you said, in that same election, Maine elected a 78 year old milquetoast president and followed that up by electing an 80 year old milquetoast senator. Maybe, using your logic, they should have ran an older candidate.

Not real confident in someone else stepping up. Probably need another 40+ from Cade to get the win.

Maine is an old population that elects old people. Not sure what to tell you. There’s no evidence they prefer younger candidates judging by their federal delegation and governor.

Democrats ran a middle aged, centrist, milquetoast white woman in Sara Gideon against Susan Collins in 2020. Not only did she lose, she lost by nearly 8% points. She lost at a time when Biden won the state and she underperformed Biden. She lost when everyone was predicting she would win. She lost when polling predicted she would win. Graham Platner is problematic in a lot of ways. The Nazi tattoo and the reddit comments about rape are indeed a problem. They will be used as attacks by the Republicans on him. But it isn't like running a middle aged, milquetoast, centrist, white woman worked last time. Sara Gideon lost. She's not the Senator. So I don't know that running a 70+ year old centrist, milquetoast white woman would work either. The polling certainly seems to indicate it won't.

that may be for a lot of reasons, but I would argue that the idea that older adults like old candidates because they are old, which seems to have been what you were arguing, is false or at least pretty weakly true. If anything older adults have the same skepticism about an old candidate as anyone else would, and look for the same kinds of evidence pro or con about a candidate's capacity as anyone else, and may actually have a sharper eye for recognition of signs of deficits.

Cossa played JR for the Edmonton Oil Kings...he could be a huge part of a McDavid trade

The Willie picture got me started, remembering how he held his bat: I would have sworn he held it even higher when he was younger. I learned he played 2 full seasons in the PCL AFTER 18 years in MLB. I never knew that. This is a great article on Willie, anyone young enough not to know what he did during the Detroit riot of 1967 should read it to understand why he's so beloved in this town. https://baseballhall.org/discover/horton-a-hero-on-and-off-the-field

I’d hate to be Larry Stoll’s Cardiologist. A lot of pressure in that job.

A fair bit of uncertainty in Pittsburgh as well. 8 years without getting out of the 1st round.

Sure would be nice if the Pistons came out and did their best Knicks impression tonight.

Man...I need to use the blue font.

Just dont fall behind early again and play catchup all night long. Survive the first 6 minutes, tied or ahead and I like our chances. Just....win. And stop turning the ball over....just stop it.