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1. DEF, @SenatorCollins, whose campaign staff is likely (and rightly) able to point at me and say WRONG! which I'm sure feels delightful for them (though I'm in good company).
I said I couldn't imagine a lot of voters voting Biden/Collins in 2020, but they did. And that's bc https://twitter.com/JMilesColeman/status/1325202467559141378
I said I couldn't imagine a lot of voters voting Biden/Collins in 2020, but they did. And that's bc https://twitter.com/JMilesColeman/status/1325202467559141378
2. the @SaraGideon campaign failed to nationalize their messaging- making a vote for Collins the same as a vote for Trump (which, and you ask @MichaelSteele about this- he will verify this- is exactly what the GOP would have done in the same situation). Itsa called a referendum
3. strategy- & the GOP has been using it to wipe out Ds in down-ballot races since the 1988 Boston Harbor campaign when believe it or not, Mike Dukakis was on track to kick GHWB's ass in the '88 presidential election until James Baker realized that they'd never win an issues
4. campaign but that by trashing Dukasis' record, that by exploiting every small failure to make it sound nefarious & the height of incompetence, they could disqualify Dukasis for the job in the mind of the voter. That was pretty much the last time the GOP RAN a campaign on
5. issues. Yet the Ds trudge on and on. Tricked into it by this behemoth data & analysis industry that has sprung up around them that exists to get paid but not to win. So Collins floats away- bc yet again, Ds thought the way to win the cycle was to zero in on healthcare and
6. even a pandemic couldn't dislodge them off it. It's a damn shame, bc she sure as hell deserved to lose. SO I hope she'll have a come to Jesus moment and decide to actually DO something useful for the American people with her power. She certainly lacks any electoral incentive-
7. but the moral incentive remains and she has much, MUCH to atone for.
