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Anonymous wrote:I don't think Collins will lose. She sounds dumb as a box of rocks, but is too dug in.

She will lose. Both sides hate her.

That’s ridiculous. Latest polls show a very tight race; the most recent shows Collins up by 11 points after Mills dropped out.

JD Vance had hundreds show up to see him speak in Bangor last week, dozens turned away because the venue was full.

A couple dozen protesters showed up across the street.

The Platner supporters posting here are not comprehending politics in Maine if they truly think he’s going to easily trounce her in November.

Anonymous wrote:The GOP is dumping tens of millions into this Maine race. The Dems are also dumping millions into the race. Platner has a very good chance of winning. Maine is a poor state, and he connects with Mainiacs.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think Collins will lose. She sounds dumb as a box of rocks, but is too dug in.

She will lose. Both sides hate her.

Speak for yourself. I like her quite a bit, as do many others.
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Anonymous wrote:I don't think Collins will lose. She sounds dumb as a box of rocks, but is too dug in.

She will lose. Both sides hate her.

Anonymous wrote:I watched part of the NYT interview. He has very good political instincts. I would not count him out. Everyone hates Sue Collins ever since her Kavanaugh vote. She deserves to lose. I think he has a very good chance of unseating her.

And he explained he attended Hotchkiss on a large scholarship for part of one semester, then went to a different private school, also on a scholarship.

His upbringing was middle class, he says, but he works in a blue collar job. He didn't go to college, was in the military. He survives on a very small income because he has military health care and a pension.

The GOP is desperate to discredit him because he's going to win and we're going to flip the Senate.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think Collins will lose. She sounds dumb as a box of rocks, but is too dug in.

She will lose. Both sides hate her.

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Anonymous wrote:Forget about the disability payment fiasco. I still haven’t heard anyone defend him posing as a working class oyster man when he went to a $70,000/year elite private high school and his parents are a lawyer and business owner. He also is on record saying that he regrets going into the military in retrospect because he did so because he read too much Hemingway. Who says stuff like that?

This guy is possibly the biggest fraud in politics.

He went to Hotchkiss for a very short time. Most of his time was at HS in Bangor.

A private high school in Bangor. Not that it matters to me either way, but let's at least be honest here.

A private school in freakin Bangor is closer to working class than many public schools in the DC region. Things are relative.

After attending an elite $70,000 prep school, which working class kids do not attend.

The Times has had enough as well. I don’t know how many working class people you know, but working class isn’t usually described as growing up with a Dartmouth educated lawyer as a father and a restaurateur mother who sent you to a $70,000 year prep school and then paid for your family’s fertility treatments in Norway.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/us/politics/platner-maine-senate-working-class.html

Mr. Platner is an oysterman, a combat veteran and a former harbor master from tiny Sullivan. He is also the son of a Dartmouth College-educated lawyer, the grandson of a famed Connecticut architect and a graduate of a private high school.

His parents have offered him privileges and connections and have helped him financially. Mr. Platner has described his mother, who owns an upscale restaurant, as his oyster farm’s biggest customer.

On large expenses, including his home, he has received assistance from his father. His father also paid for his and his wife’s travel, lodging and fertility treatments in Norway this year, according to a person with knowledge of the financial arrangement at the time.

Man the NYTimes is really on the pro Israel payroll.

What’s your counter argument to Platner posing a working class man of the people when his Daddy is a lawyer who pays for his down payments, elite private high school, and Norwegian fertility treatments though?

You’re deflecting.

Anonymous wrote:I don't think Collins will lose. She sounds dumb as a box of rocks, but is too dug in.

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Anonymous wrote:Forget about the disability payment fiasco. I still haven’t heard anyone defend him posing as a working class oyster man when he went to a $70,000/year elite private high school and his parents are a lawyer and business owner. He also is on record saying that he regrets going into the military in retrospect because he did so because he read too much Hemingway. Who says stuff like that?

This guy is possibly the biggest fraud in politics.

He went to Hotchkiss for a very short time. Most of his time was at HS in Bangor.

A private high school in Bangor. Not that it matters to me either way, but let's at least be honest here.

A private school in freakin Bangor is closer to working class than many public schools in the DC region. Things are relative.

After attending an elite $70,000 prep school, which working class kids do not attend.

The Times has had enough as well. I don’t know how many working class people you know, but working class isn’t usually described as growing up with a Dartmouth educated lawyer as a father and a restaurateur mother who sent you to a $70,000 year prep school and then paid for your family’s fertility treatments in Norway.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/us/politics/platner-maine-senate-working-class.html

Mr. Platner is an oysterman, a combat veteran and a former harbor master from tiny Sullivan. He is also the son of a Dartmouth College-educated lawyer, the grandson of a famed Connecticut architect and a graduate of a private high school.

His parents have offered him privileges and connections and have helped him financially. Mr. Platner has described his mother, who owns an upscale restaurant, as his oyster farm’s biggest customer.

On large expenses, including his home, he has received assistance from his father. His father also paid for his and his wife’s travel, lodging and fertility treatments in Norway this year, according to a person with knowledge of the financial arrangement at the time.

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Anonymous wrote:Anybody willing to gift this article?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/us/politics/platner-maine-senate-working-class.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/us/politics/platner-maine-senate-working-class.html?unlocked_article_code=1.jFA.mxEa.2KOrHVLWCRvn&smid=url-share

Anonymous wrote:Anybody willing to gift this article?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/us/politics/platner-maine-senate-working-class.html