ME Sen I can't really be Collins it yet

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Collins is a popular moderate republican in a state that’s trending R fast. Likely R.

That was under candidate Trump. Whether generic R president Trump does as well has yet to be seen.

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Collins has become the caricature of a moderate hero and the saddest/funniest thing is that she doesn't understand it.

Maybe she's saving the true moderate hero moment for right before the election to try to get a last minute bump. I have a feeling she knows what she's doing.

That sounds like a terrible idea. The process by which the Republican base forgives a politican for going against the party is not instantaneous. Has she done something two months before the election she could have duped some guibble Democrats into voting for her, while giving the Republican base enough time to cool off and fall in line. Doing it at the last minute would leave the base foaming at the mouth while appearing more calculated to to swing voters. All the early voting and the disproportionate number of Republicans planning to vote on november 3rd only makes it more likely that any last minute moderate hero stunt would backfire.

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How is it a terrible answer? There would be no Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, or ACB if we had a filibuster.

Im not a fan of the filibuster but I'm also not a fan of a partisan court.

The filibuster was in place when Gorsuch was nominated, but it was pushed aside like a fart in the wind at the slighest inconvenience to Mcconnell.