Today we here in Maine begin the process of sending Susan Collins back to Caribou

[augyboston]

I am a registered Democrat in Maine and today we will choose the 500 delegates who decide a week from now who our candidate will be for the U.S. Senate.

I was a huge Graham Platner supporter because he had the chops to speak truth to power. Whoever we select he or she should invoke a return to the New Deal and the name of Frances Perkins. Graham quite rightly pointed out that we've been here before and the solution is to do what we did before.

MAGA and tRump will call us communists and any other vile labels they can cook up, but we must stand tall and let people know we stand for an economy that gives a fair shake to workers, we stand for quality affordable healthcare for every American, we stand for reproductive rights, we stand for strong public schools, we stand for the separation of church and state, we stand with the right of people to be who they want to be, we stand for clean affordable renewable energy, we stand for keeping Earth a planet that sustains all life, we stand for the right to vote for every American and most of all, we stand for freedom and democracy.

Susan Collins voted for the Big Beautiful Bill, she voted for Kavanaugh and she voted for giving ICE an additional 70 billion dollars with no oversight of an agency that has been killing people. She does not have an ounce of regret for any of those bad decisions, so lets take away her Senate seat and send her home in the hopes that she will spend her remaining years finding the remorse that she has earned.

[WinningAgain]

1. Good luck

[Dr. T]

2. Choose wisely.

Authentic American people everywhere across this nation are pulling for you.

[Pucks mom]

3. We are rooting for Maine!

[Goonch]

4. ;-{) THIS

[FakeNoose]

5. Graham Platner had some good ideas but ...

... was he honest about his qualifications? No, I don't think so.

Were Democrats diligent in doing background checks? They could have found stuff on Platner immediately with a simple Google search, so no they weren't.

Mistakes happen, and sometimes candidates are weasels when it comes to hiding the truth about their past. But please learn from this and find a candidate that you all can support and be proud of. Good luck, Maine Democrats!

[ZDU]

6. 🍀🫏🍀

[popsdenver]

7. She is just an

ugly, old, demented, self-serving, hag

[Bengus81]

8. Start calling all of them insurrectionists 24/7. At least there's truth to that label.

[QueerDuck]

9. We have to separate policy ideals from general election math.

There is nothing wrong with invoking Frances Perkins, but leaning into a strict 'New Deal' platform ignores the political reality of Maine. While such things play incredibly well to the 15% of statewide voters who supported him in the primary, it simply isn't a realistic path to getting 51% of Mainers in a general election.

Remember, Mainers have elected Collins FIVE times... so she certainly has consistent appeal to most of the voters. We must peel away the moderate voters who go for her. And that's why the 500 delegates must prioritize electoral math and unity over ideological purism if we want to actually win this seat.

In order to be successful, they will need to focus on finding a mainstream, vetted nominee who can capture the center-left majority, not an ideologue who leaves us vulnerable.

I think it's a mistake to continue acting as though a candidate has to be an outsider to 'speak truth to power.' Platner wasn't the only person with the 'chops' to speak strongly... regular rank-and-file mainstream Democrats do it every day, and they do it without the disastrous lack of vetting that derailed his campaign.

Good luck and thanks for your work. This is a very interesting and exciting time. Be sure to share more about your experiences and how it all unfolds. I'm a little jealous of you, actually.