Final post-mortem from me on the Platner thing

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8. "He shouldn't have been allowed to have gotten as far he did"

Absolutely.

Was Graham Platner the only guy in Maine with progressive ideas and a modicum of charisma? Probably not. I'm guessing these folks in New York could have found someone without a suspicious history and a fuckin Nazi tattoo to take up the progressive flank in the Maine race, if they'd only put in a little effort in.

That being said, I still maintain that Maine Democratic Party seriously underestimated progressive sentiment in their own state, and running Mills against Platner almost certainly contributed to his fandom.