Comments on: Graham Platner: Susan Collins made me do it!

By: Marlene

Marlene — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:07:07 +0000

Janna from Maine: interesting! Sounds like NY, doesn’t it? South part of the state is the wackiest.
Unfortunately that’s also the dense city & power centers.

By: Janna

Janna — Sat, 30 May 2026 20:02:55 +0000

I live in northern Maine. We aren’t crazy up here, it’s downstate that the problem.

By: Niketas Choniates

Niketas Choniates — Sat, 30 May 2026 18:01:35 +0000

@John Galt III:Platner has a 9 point lead AFTER all the dirt on him has come out

I clicked through to the actual poll. His lead is not that high if you just count who said they’d vote for him in the sample; the pollsters applied a weighting to get that higher number. The percent undecided is really high, 7%, and most of the polls for this race have something like 10% undecided.

The poll you see in the news is the one they want to talk about, and they pick through the numbers to get the story they want.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Sat, 30 May 2026 17:37:09 +0000

Clearly, she also forced him to get that Nazi SS tattoo…

(Some people really do have extraordinary powers…and if I were a Maine voter, I might just consider Platner’s purported complaint as an endorsement for the incumbent…)

By: Niketas Choniates

Niketas Choniates — Sat, 30 May 2026 17:23:31 +0000

It’s entirely possible that whatever electoral fraud happens in Maine benefits Collins. Lot of hogs in Maine depend on her filling the trough: politics is local and the non-Maine Dems who might really want Platner can’t vote. If Platner wins AND the Dems get a majority–big ifs this year–he can’t fill the trough, he has no seniority, Patty Murray (D-WA) would sit in that chair and she’ll be carried out of it. And Platner winning without a Dem majority is just as bad for the hogs in Maine.

Doesn’t mean Collins can’t lose. I once lived in a district that threw out the Speaker of the House in favor of a freshman Congressman in 1994.

Every Republican currently in the Senate got there with elections the way they work now. Every Republican currently in the Senate has helped to set aside a filibuster at least once. The problem is not that the GOP needs 60 votes to do what we want and there are only 53 of them. It’s that the GOP needs 51 votes to do what we want, and they have up to 53, but they’re lying to us about how many there really are and the real number is less than 50.

By: Miguel cervantes

Miguel cervantes — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:14:39 +0000

He ridiculed ted daniels he libeled chris kyle (what was his answer to afghanistan: probably reparations to al queda) he is tim blairs law encarnate
Every insane notion wrapped in one person

Because the arab lobby has always been stronger since the 40s, from defense state and company men forrestal acheson dulles et al

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Sat, 30 May 2026 15:46:25 +0000

Per the American Conservative Union, Collins’ voting record is equidistant between the median of the Democratic caucus and the median of the Republican caucus. She’s not a ‘Rockefeller Republican’, but a careerist temporizer. IMO, she’s less bothersome than Sleaza Murkowski, Glitch McConnell, and the latest authors of failure theatre.

By: John Galt III

John Galt III — Sat, 30 May 2026 15:38:14 +0000

Platner has a 9 point lead AFTER all the dirt on him has come out.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/despite-inflammatory-comments-platner-holds-9-point-lead-collins-new-poll-

I know, don’t trust polls, but still.

By: Watt

Watt — Sat, 30 May 2026 15:34:46 +0000

It’s a perfectly valid position to be against US engagement in Iraq- and Afghanistan-type wars. But Platner chose a foolish argument.

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Sat, 30 May 2026 11:17:19 +0000

Believing Platner is not necessary for democra. They either like the stinking pile he represents or they don’t. Probably, it’s the smell.