Do you support Janet Mills or Graham Platner for Maine Democratic senatorial candidate?

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97. What choices have they really had?

And I ask that without prejudice because I don't follow Maine politics closely. But the places I do follow, I see BOTH parties backing candidates that represent the status quo the old guard of either party really likes. By the time we get to primaries, anybody who might have threatened the status quo has been beaten down and denied the resources necessary to compete.

And what we are seeing here with Plattner (and certainly with Mamdani in NYC) looks like a party doing its very best to beat down the voices that could lead to real change because the party bigwigs don't want that kind of change. It is the same thing we saw when Hogg was run out of town.

I find it remarkable that Plattner got this far (maybe that shouldn't be surprising in Maine). But even more surprising that as he is being attacked (probably more from within the Party than without), he is maintaining a big lead over the establishment choice. Of course it is very early, but I think we should be asking questions WHO is organizing this attempted beatdown of Plattner and why are they so afraid of him? We saw exactly that same cycle in NYC.