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I can't believe the Celtics are going to 7 games.

It’s almost as if a robot that doesn’t give a damn about the excitement of divisional races created the schedule. Almost…

9 of the Tigers last 24 games - all in September - are against National League opponents

I don't think she's assured victory, but I think it's 50/50 and it's leaning Collins. I also don't think we've seen all of Platner's warts. I think there is a lot more to come. Voters may simply sit it out or view Collins as the lesser of two evils.

I don't think she's going down easy, but the conventional wisdom among some is that she's now assured victory. And she very much isn't. This isn't 2020 anymore. Despite COVID, which wasn't great for Trump obviously, this is an *even worse* environment, complete with insanely high gas prices and a wildly unpopular war. Collins is much more unpopular than she was in 2020. Partisanship is much more hardened than in 2020. And Donald Trump, the great driver of turnout that he is, will not be on the ballot. Collins pulled the rabbit out of the hat, but even with Platner's problems, she's never faced a tougher cycle than this one.

Democrats now have to explain why they support the guy with the Nazi tattoos, who blamed rape victims for their rape, and used anti gay slurs. Everything Democrats rightfully attack Republicans for, but he's young and has a beaver's ass on his face and wears flannel.

Sadly - if she doesn't that means we've all been whistling past the graveyard thinking that America is finally falling out of love with Trump.

I mean, Bernie Sanders is a force and supports Platner. Sanders also supported Fetterman and Gabbard. Biden wasn't addicted to corporate money. That was his problem. Corporate money turned against him and the party kicked him out.

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.