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Remember Maine!

A new independent poll shows Democrat Sara Gideon with a 7 percentage-point lead over Republican Sen. Susan Collins as the U.S. Senate race in Maine closes in on its final weeks.

The poll, conducted by Portland-based Pan Atlantic Research, a market research and consulting firm that regularly polls on public policy and other issues, surveyed 600 registered Maine voters online between Oct. 2 and Oct. 6. The margin of error was plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.
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Democrats were also leading in both of Maine’s congressional districts. In the 1st District, the poll showed Rep. Chellie Pingree with a lead of 54.5 percent to 34.8 percent for challenger Jay Allen. Second District U.S. Rep. Jared Golden led Republican Dale Crafts by a margin of 60.4 percent to 32.7 percent. The sample sizes in the congressional districts were 300 voters.
 

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In Arizona polling (Monmouth):

In Arizona’s U.S. Senate contest, Kelly leads McSally by 10 points among registered voters (52% to 42%), which is larger than his margins in prior Monmouth polls from September (50% to 44%) and March (50% to 44%). Among likely voters, his lead is 10 points in a high turnout scenario (52% to 42%) Monmouth University Polling Institute 10/15/20 3 and 6 points in a low turnout scenario (51% to 45%). Last month, Kelly held a 4-point lead in the high turnout model and a 1-point lead in the low turnout model
 

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Graham was in the Capitol Building at the time. And that's a violation of federal campaign law (soliciting donations for his campaign while in a federal building).
 

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It must hurt to have the boss man mad at you because you're not on board with 100% of his efforts. You'll be missed, Susan (kidding!).
 

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Georgia is trying really hard to turn blue.


President:​
BIDEN (D) 51​
TRUMP (R-INC) 46​
Senate (6th):​
JON OSSOFF (D) 51​
DAVID PERDUE (R-INC) 45​
Senate (Special Election):​
RAPHAEL WARNOCK (D) 48​
DOUG COLLINS (R) 23​
KELLY LOEFFLER (R-INC) 22​
MATT LIEBERMAN (D) 2​
ED TARVER (D) 1​
 

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Georgia is trying really hard to turn blue.


President:​
BIDEN (D) 51​
TRUMP (R-INC) 46​
Senate (6th):​
JON OSSOFF (D) 51​
DAVID PERDUE (R-INC) 45​
Senate (Special Election):​
RAPHAEL WARNOCK (D) 48​
DOUG COLLINS (R) 23​
KELLY LOEFFLER (R-INC) 22​
MATT LIEBERMAN (D) 2​
ED TARVER (D) 1​

I would amend that to say that Stacey Abrams is working hard to turn Georgia blue. Her efforts to get the vote out have been phenomenal. I am still skeptical, but going by the continued long lines at our polling areas even I let a little optimism poke through occasionally. It is clear something is up as outside groups are starting to pour money into Senator Perdue's campaign. He basically has nothing to run on, though, and his commercials consist mainly of him letting us know that Ossoff is a horrible socialist that hates America with an occasional antisemitic dog whistle thrown in. Given the surge in young people voting there is a real possibility Perdue could get beaten. (Bless his heart.)

The special election could be interesting. If Warnock gets over 50% he could avoid a run-off, but I suspect that will be very difficult. His name is at the very end of the list of candidates, and in Georgia that has traditionally been a difficult obstacle. Georgia voters may not be the most sophistimicated group in the world.

As a side note, we have only been here a relatively short time since moving, but this year we started seeing commercials for Republicans candidates contesting seats in the statehouse. This is a bit of a bellwether that the Republicans are concerned. They have gerrymandered this state so thoroughly that in a high turn out election it could end up backfiring on them. There are a lot of Republicans running around trying to sow distrust in mail in ballots.

Getting back to Stacey Abrams. If she pulls this off it would be a shocking win for her. Unfortunately for us, she has eyes on things beyond Georgia and is likely to use this as a springboard for a broader, national role. The only thing she has not done well is to groom a successor, and that may make it difficult to sustain any momentum. Without relief from the current gerrymandered system it will take more than one election to make a long term change. At least one poster here has insinuated that Abrams is one of Pelosi's puppets but right now it is looking like it is exactly the opposite. If she succeeds, Abrams will be a player that the establishment will have to figure out how to deal with. To treat her as some kind of minion of the establishment is nothing short of a racist and sexist assumption that someone like Stacey Abrams cannot be an influential force in her home state.
 

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We'll still have McConnell to kick around, but if things go the right way in less than a week, I'm going to enjoy watching Graham whine in flames.

 

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Ilhan Omar easily won her seat again. I voted for her with reservations. I wasn't happy that when our city was burning she was nowhere to be found, only to emerge after it was all over, with tough words for camera face time. I would like her to focus on serving her constituents more than battling on Twitter with Trump.

Still, I voted for her because I will be damned if I ever let that seat go to a Republican. Nope, nada, never. They have pulled a ton of stunts over the last few years trying to take that seat, from a Republican changing party nominally and moving here, to a union-busting, "pull yourselves up by your bootstraps," democrat" Stop me if you see anything unusual about that.
 
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