General Discussion

All of these things were dug up I think by someone supporting another candidate before Mills entered the race. They have all been out there for months while he has become stronger in both the primary and general election. As a 75 year old, whose favorite candidate was the very honorable John Kerry, it surprises me that none of this sticks.

So, I have tried to consider what his attraction is. The only insight I can conjure up was that in 2016, in NH there was a significant number of people uncertain whether they wanted to support Bernie in the Democratic primary or Trump in the general. As a politician and a person Bernie is almost the opposite of Trump. The common ground might be both reject mainstream politicians.

Could that be what is happening here? Could that explain why so many things that have been uncovered have no impact? Consider he created an image of being an oysterman, obscuring he was from a prominent family, went to an elite school and was greatly helped by his family in his business. When that was pointed out, no one cared.

On the darker things, his tattoo and his misogynistic, homophobic, racist comments, it's almost like the GWB " I was young and irresponsible" so nothing before age 40 or so counts. Yet everything Al Gore said was used ( or in the case of having led on funding the program that led to the internet, misused) ( or why Access Hollywood didn't end Trump's run, though every word Hillary had ever said seemed to matter.)

I live in VT, not Maine, so I haven't seen anything showing what he says he stands for. If I was in Maine, I would vote for Mills. As to the difference in the general election polls, I wonder if there is more of a tendency for Platner voters to claim they would not vote, were undecided or even would vote for Collins than there is for the more mainstream Mills voters.