Mark Davis

I find it pretty funny my state's faults are health (where we have a hospital and research facility ranked among Newsweek's World's Best) and "inclusiveness". That term pretty much gives you the agenda. Yeah, I'm just fine where I am.

Married well, his father in law founded his own company and his wife is loaded.

Just watching him speak was uncomfortable.

He's at the least a narcissist. All political poking aside, I do fear for his wife having to live in that house with him right now. I don't get the feeling he's stable in any way and has shown he's a danger to women. I'm guessing his mental state isn't the best right now.

I just remember that race for how one sided it turned out. Like I said above, that election resulted in the last time any party carried every county statewide. The environment is bad for Collins, but why they'd want to run a retread in a change environment I don't get. I don't know much about her other than that, and in the environment she could win, but I'd think they'd want to pull someone else out for it.

OK. Find me the Dems Collins beat by a wider margin. Bellows was so liked it was the last time either party has carried every county in Maine. I just think they could find someone better, but hey go for it.

https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Senate_elections_in_Maine,_2014 Collins beat her more than 2:1 in 2014. I don't think it's likely the Dems will back that horse. But, from reports I've heard she still has federal funds on hand she can spend. None of the others do. So I guess it's possible given the money.

I just watched Platner's video, had been out at a poker game all night. He didn't do the Democratic Party any big favors. I don't honestly know how the replacement nominee can get the share of his supporters that they will need. He stated he's suspending his campaign because "of the structures being taken away from us by those in power". He talked about how he won and "now they are not going to let us have it".

There were people here posting there was more. It was discussed on a podcast I follow at the time of the initial NY Times story on how they weren't telling the full depth and all the stories. Even the guests from the Democratic side were saying openly that there was more to that and they had heard more. I posted about there being more at the time. It was said because of that. One of the people who advised Fifeld was also a guest on that show and said he advised her at the time to not talk to the NY Times that they'd short sell it, and they did. They dampened down the story.

Yeah, I seriously doubt it was coincidence the straw that broke the camel's back came just as the first major poll showing Collins +3 came out. All this was fine until he fell behind. I'm not saying that's true for every supporter he had, but from the party side, they knew all this stuff was out there and looked the other way as long as he looked like he would win. Look how fast the stories came, everyone turned in the party like they got a blast email. Literally overnight on a story that was known by those insiders prior to the interviews being released. So now the party is trying to force him to step down, and he's going to have some supporters who are going to be upset he got kneecapped even though he won the primary.

I think you're underestimating how many voters, voters I mostly disagree with on issues, are going to resent having their choice who won the primary be replaced by the party. I grant you it's a bad environment for Collins, but this has gone as perfectly as it could for her. She's been very fortunate for the self inflicted wounds by the D's in this case.

Yeah that’s kind of where I’m sitting on it. I hope we’ve learned to not get involved in the nation building business. But then you have a power vacuum our “friends” the Saudis would love there. A messy situation

It's not what I want to do. But to not invade we have to get the IRGC, or whoever is calling the shots on firing on the vessels, to stand down. So far that hasn't occurred. At some point if this continues you have to eliminate those people or hold the land those drones are coming from. I don't have a good answer because I don't think there is one. Invasion is never a good option but it may come to that.

I wish this weren't the one time I agree with you but sadly it is. It's a cheap analogy, but I think the hornet's nest one people have made is pretty correct. You have to kill them all when you stir them up.

When that story came out the ballots were already done. I never voted for Roy Moore in any of his races so it was easy. Just like Platner, if you opened your eyes it was pretty evident he was a bad guy before the final nail. Just to be clear, winning by 1.6% for a D in AL is no small feat. It's like a Republican winning a Chicago mayoral race. It takes a once in a lifetime bad candidate/person to cause that result.