Jesse Lee
The next pollster in Maine should ask people whether their vote would be primarily *for* the candidate they support or *against* the opposing candidate. I’ve seen nothing that disentangles the Platner character hits vs Collins’ career of over-performing vs post-primary settling.
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Two major polls this week found Graham Platner trailing Susan Collins by significant margins among working class voters. So I asked a top Platner adviser, Rebecca Katz, to respond to this and discuss the way forward. The conversation got interesting: https://newrepublic.com/article/212683/maine-senate-polls-graham-platner
