Graham Platner maintains big lead over Janet Mills in Maine senate race, new poll finds

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44. Here are a couple articles:

Graham Platner posts $4.6 million in fourth quarter fundraising, Gov. Janet Mills $2.7 million

https://www.mainepublic.org/politics/2026-02-02/graham-platner-posts-4-6-million-in-fourth-quarter-fundraising-gov-janet-mills-2-7-million

The article below has a lot more details:

Janet Mills Is Flopping in the Fight for Maine Senate

New FEC data from the Maine governor's Senate campaign show waning voter enthusiasm.

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/janet-mills-maine-senate-fec-million-dollars-small-donors

If a person is, at the end of the day, a Never-Platner Dem primary voter, they surely must be very frustrated that the only other option has come down to Schumer's main choice, the far from inspiring moderate Mills.

Mills will be 85yo at the end of her first term, she would be the oldest-ever 'first time elected' US Senator in US history should she win, and she also has multiple problematic stances.

For instance (as I stated above, upthread) she is pro filibuster, she is anti-decriminalisation for small personal use amounts of drugs, is anti red-flag laws for guns, she has vetoed collective bargaining rights (so is anti-union to a degree), vetoed wealth taxes, vetoed protections for renters, and vetoed some tribal sovereignty laws, etc. She also polls worse (atm) against Collins than Platner.

Platner himself has some real problems (as relentlessly pointed out on DU by some) that Collins and the RW dark money will no doubt drop tens of millions of dollars to hammer him with in the general should he win the Dem primary.

It is a shame, IMHO, that the Maine Dems could not recruit a better candidate than these two. They had one (again IMHO), in Jordan Wood, but he dropped out to run for the US House in ME-2 when Jared Golden announced he was not running for re-election.