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'My goodness gracious!' Data guru floored as Democrats build momentum in key race
Maine Is Telling the Truth About Power, Not GossipThe Real StoryCNN’s polling segment makes a simple point look mysterious: after Graham Platner quit the Maine Senate race amid serious sexual misconduct allegations, Democrats’ odds improved. The temptation is to treat that as a twist. It is not. It is evidence that the race was never mainly about Platner’s collapse. It was about whether Susan Collins could keep living off institutional inertia in a state that is increasingly harder for her to hold.Collins Still Owns the OfficeThe person with actual power here is Susan Collins. She is the…
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