ME Sen I can't really be Collins it yet

[KaiserDave]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq9Yle-_tF0

Charlie Baker and Larry Hogan are endorsing Collins.

You know who’s not there


I think we know who I’m talking about

He’s so awesome

[KaiserDave]

Tilt R now that RGB died. This really opens up a clear opportunity for her to redeem herself. Maybe I'm just being too overreactive to the events of the day though

Uhhh

how?

[KaiserDave]

I’m not sure I understand the reasoning behind the notion that this isn’t a lose-lose situation for Collins. "Moderate posturing" hasn’t exactly worked for Collins so far in an environment in which there’s little appetite for bipartisanship and the partisan fronts couldn’t be more unambiguously defined and rabidly opposed to each other. She’s going to lose most of her remaining support from the few Democratic-leaning independents still willing to consider her when the race becomes hyper-nationalized and closely tracks with the presidential race after an AYE vote (this would be a good bet if Trump was on track for reelection and/or competitive in ME, but he’s not), and she’s going to lose base support if she votes to reject his nominee while winning over a very limited numbers of Biden voters (certainly not enough to offset losses among the Republican/Trump base). RCV might help a little, but I feel like people underestimate the number of Trump supporters who wouldn’t rank her at all as well as the number of Biden voters who have already made up their mind about Collins and won’t rank her at all.

I was always skeptical that this would be the third Democratic pickup and that ME would flip before NC, but it’s really hard to see how she finds a way out of this, especially with Biden vastly improving over Clinton's result in ME (he’s not going to win it by 17-21 points, but even high single digits/low double digits will be difficult to overcome). Her entire shtick probably just doesn’t work in this era.

Finally, sanity and basic awareness!


(I expected this of course, you’re a good poster)

[KaiserDave]

She's done

[KaiserDave]

This article is from February, but it's still a revealing expose into Susan Collins' character and background: https://nymag.com/article/2020/02/the-immoderate-susan-collins.html. I almost felt some sympathy for Collins as I read through the first half of the article, but that dissipated quickly. It's clear from this that she's always been a spiteful, duplicitous, and thin-skinned woman who has been far less "independent" then she has claimed to be, and has done nothing to seriously depart from her Party's agenda, particularly in recent years.

And she seems to harbor some prejudices, given that she's now fallen so low as to condemn George Soros-who is a boogeyman of the far right and conspiracy theorists-for spending money against her. Given all of this, and given that Collins had initially pledged to serve only two terms in the Senate (a pledge which she broke over a decade ago), I think it's even clearer that she needs to be shown the door.

Thank you for sharing this

[KaiserDave]

Ummmm....

https://twitter.com/ESCochrane/status/1316894114781298692

I mean...if it was upheld I'd be okay with this.

[KaiserDave]

Ummmm....

https://twitter.com/ESCochrane/status/1316894114781298692

Democrats are spineless cowards. You hate to see it.

I mean, if we could magically resurrect the judicial filibuster and not have it removed, why not? The court would eventually be made up of 9 consensus picks.