Senate races 2026

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Anonymous wrote:Bringing that magic touch that helped Orban 🤞

+1 JD Vance is so unlikeable. It should help Ds in Maine.

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Not even pretending to be concerned this time

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Anonymous wrote:Perfect 😘

Susan is a sorceress; she always seems to win when she really shouldn't.

+1 She had crazy numbers in 2008 running alongside the Obama landslide.

And that was after she had promised in 1996 to only serve two terms. Oops.

It’s going to be interesting to see how things come out in Maine. Collins is less liked now than ever before, but she still enjoys strong support in a state where Republicans and independents far outnumber Democrats, and the independents are not largely progressives by any means.

Also Platner has some real baggage, and there may be more that comes out of oppo research after the primary if he wins it (and it appears he likely will). He’s also a political novice trying to walk into a Senate seat having nothing but harbormaster of a tiny town and some very recent community organizing under his belt.

What’s really sad is that Mainers don’t have any better options for Senate than two career politicians on the cusp of octogenarian status and a totally politically inexperienced middle aged man with a fairly strong history of anti-almost-everyone comments including very recent use of the term ‘r*t*rded’ which he doesn’t seem to think is actually any big deal.

I generally agree with this take but these numbers seemed wrong so I looked them up, Maine is Democrats: 325,974 (33.78%)
Republicans: 287,858 (29.83%)
Other/Independent: 351,253 (36.40%)

Do you struggle with maths, or do you actually believe that the 36% of Maine independents are all liberal leaning and vote for D candidates?

If you think that, you don’t know Maine politics at all. Maine, after all, elected ‘Trump before Trump’ Paul LePage to two terms as Governor. He’s running again this year for the open seat in Maine’s CD2, and he enjoys very strong support in that most conservative part of the state. Voters who turn out for LePage will be voting for Collins too.

I think that many of the commenters here are folks whose knowledge of Maine is limited to Portland and the surrounding environs, maybe up to midcoast. The rest of Maine calls this northern Massachusetts. There are two Maines, a very well understood phenomenon to those of us who have lived in and/or grown up in Maine or those who really study and grasp the political landscape.

So I’ll reiterate- by basic maths we can see that Republicans and independents in Maine far outnumber Democrats. And independents in Maine aren’t largely lefty or democratic socialists -they are more moderate to conservative.

Collins has the edge going into this race no matter what the polls today show when only the most die hard voters are paying attention in primary season. Now do a historical analysis on how many incumbent five term Senators of either party have ever been unseated by a challenger anywhere in the country.

Of course Republicans and independents TOGETHER far outnumber Democrats, that’s true in almost every state and not at all unique to Maine (and therefore not what I thought you meant.) Sheesh. Also, check out the approval numbers for Trump among independents, plus we call it math here.

Trump is not on the ballot.

As a former Mainer with family there still, I follow politics closely. You aren’t grasping the perspective of many moderate independents on fuel prices and other necessary costs of closing our borders and safeguarding the country from foreign enemies such as Iran. You may think that’s ridiculous, but it’s the way a lot of people think in Maine.

Maths is a correct abbreviation for mathematics, whether you like it or not. It seems that closing your mind off to anything you don’t like is SOP for you. Boring.

DP: "Maths" is British English not American English.

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Anonymous wrote:Bringing that magic touch that helped Orban 🤞

+1 JD Vance is so unlikeable. It should help Ds in Maine.

+1 JD's the grim reaper.

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Another Michigan candidate has some explaining to do.

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Anonymous wrote:Another Michigan candidate has some explaining to do.

Oh how stupid--and shows that his opponents are grasping at straw. The man has a medical degree from a prestigious university, 2 PhDs in health science topics and has held various public health posts in Michigan. And people are complaining that he is calling himself doctor because he's working in public health for government but isn't directly treating patients currently...

Meanwhile Trump tweeted like 30 different lies yesterday on truth social and holds the nuclear codes and the news media is silent.

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Osborn update: Good for Osborn and well done by Nebraska Democrats - the other guy was a Republican plant

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Obama just walked into an Austin taco shop and called James Talarico Texas's "next senator." MAGA isn't ready. Barack Obama doesn't do retail politics much anymore.

He doesn't hop on planes to swing through random campaign stops. So when he shows up at Taco Joint in Austin on a Tuesday afternoon, going booth to booth introducing patrons to "your next governor and senator," that's not a photo op. That's a signal.

The "next senator" he's talking about is James Talarico, a 36-year-old Texas state representative, former public school teacher, and progressive Christian seminarian who won the Democratic primary in March.

The "next governor" is Gina Hinojosa, a state rep running against Greg Abbott. And Obama wasn't just stopping by. He worked the room. He made the pitch. He brought the full weight of his name into a state Democrats haven't won statewide in over three decades.

Here's why this race matters. Talarico didn't just decide to run for Senate. He decided after watching Texas Republicans, at Trump's direct request, ram through a mid-decade gerrymander to steal congressional seats.

Talarico was one of the Democrats who fled the state to deny Republicans a quorum. They lost that fight. The courts upheld the rigged map. And Talarico's response was to run for the U.S. Senate.

He's not running against just any Republican. He's running against the winner of a Ken Paxton vs. John Cornyn primary runoff later this month. Paxton, the Attorney General who was impeached by his own party for corruption, then acquitted, then kept right on going.

Or Cornyn, the establishment retread who has voted with Trump on basically everything that matters. Either way, Talarico's opponent will be carrying every piece of Republican baggage the modern GOP has accumulated.

Obama has been quietly putting his weight behind a new generation of Democrats.

Texas is still an uphill climb. Anyone telling you otherwise is selling something. But the trend lines are real. Trump is historically unpopular. Republicans are gerrymandering because they know they're losing ground. And now Obama is on the ground.

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Anonymous wrote:Another Michigan candidate has some explaining to do.

lol…what’s wrong, he didn’t didn’t get a certificate from Trump U in horse paste enemas?

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Anonymous wrote:Obama just walked into an Austin taco shop and called James Talarico Texas's "next senator." MAGA isn't ready. Barack Obama doesn't do retail politics much anymore.

He doesn't hop on planes to swing through random campaign stops. So when he shows up at Taco Joint in Austin on a Tuesday afternoon, going booth to booth introducing patrons to "your next governor and senator," that's not a photo op. That's a signal.

The "next senator" he's talking about is James Talarico, a 36-year-old Texas state representative, former public school teacher, and progressive Christian seminarian who won the Democratic primary in March.

The "next governor" is Gina Hinojosa, a state rep running against Greg Abbott. And Obama wasn't just stopping by. He worked the room. He made the pitch. He brought the full weight of his name into a state Democrats haven't won statewide in over three decades.

Here's why this race matters. Talarico didn't just decide to run for Senate. He decided after watching Texas Republicans, at Trump's direct request, ram through a mid-decade gerrymander to steal congressional seats.

Talarico was one of the Democrats who fled the state to deny Republicans a quorum. They lost that fight. The courts upheld the rigged map. And Talarico's response was to run for the U.S. Senate.

He's not running against just any Republican. He's running against the winner of a Ken Paxton vs. John Cornyn primary runoff later this month. Paxton, the Attorney General who was impeached by his own party for corruption, then acquitted, then kept right on going.

Or Cornyn, the establishment retread who has voted with Trump on basically everything that matters. Either way, Talarico's opponent will be carrying every piece of Republican baggage the modern GOP has accumulated.

Obama has been quietly putting his weight behind a new generation of Democrats.

Texas is still an uphill climb. Anyone telling you otherwise is selling something. But the trend lines are real. Trump is historically unpopular. Republicans are gerrymandering because they know they're losing ground. And now Obama is on the ground.

Respect to Obama for getting on the ground, but an Austin Taco shop is not where he needs to be in this race.

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Anonymous wrote:Another Michigan candidate has some explaining to do.

Oh how stupid--and shows that his opponents are grasping at straw. The man has a medical degree from a prestigious university, 2 PhDs in health science topics and has held various public health posts in Michigan. And people are complaining that he is calling himself doctor because he's working in public health for government but isn't directly treating patients currently...

Meanwhile Trump tweeted like 30 different lies yesterday on truth social and holds the nuclear codes and the news media is silent.

It’s ridiculous that politico even wrote a story about this. So dumb.

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Anonymous wrote:Another Michigan candidate has some explaining to do.

Oh how stupid--and shows that his opponents are grasping at straw. The man has a medical degree from a prestigious university, 2 PhDs in health science topics and has held various public health posts in Michigan. And people are complaining that he is calling himself doctor because he's working in public health for government but isn't directly treating patients currently...

Meanwhile Trump tweeted like 30 different lies yesterday on truth social and holds the nuclear codes and the news media is silent.

Yeah, that's stupid. My husband has an MD and a PhD, spent a few years in emergency medicine, then worked in a hospital, but has spent the bulk of his career as a research scientist. Of course he's a doctor, and a darn good one.

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she clearly knows what time it is.

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Anonymous wrote:Another Michigan candidate has some explaining to do.

Funny to see establishment Dems feign outrage at something like this after calling online “doctorate” Jill Biden DOCTOR for the last fifteen years.