What did Susan Collins get back home for her Kavanaugh betrayal? A 9-point approval drop
Joan McCarter
Daily Kos Staff
Thursday November 08, 2018 · 9:50 PM EST
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) traded her reputation and principles away for the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court fight for an overall loss of 9 points in her approval rating. Morning Consult polled Maine and found that " the political ground has shifted beneath her ahead of a potential 2020 re-election run."
Forty-five percent of Mainers approve of her job performance post-Kavanaugh, a 9-point drop since Morning Consult last surveyed over the summer. She picked up a lot of Republicans: "68 percent approved and 25 percent disapproved—a net 43-point jump." She could make that shift because Republicans disliked her before, displeased with her general bipartisany persona and her anti-Obamacare repeal vote.
She's 32 points underwater with Democrats, having gone from a 39 percent disapproval to a miserable 63 percent bad rating. She's not likely to be able to court many of them as she has in the past. She's fared slightly better with independents, her disapproval rating jumping just 4 points from 31 to 35, but her approval dropping from 56 to 41 points. An awful lot more independents have decided they're undecided about what they think of her.
The "Kavanaugh bump" for the Republican base was pretty short-lived, so we'll see how long they still like Collins, given the hardest core of them have looked on her as a sellout for most of her career. She burned bridges with many of them long ago.
The bridges she just burned with Democrats, with Independents, and particularly with women, her staunchest supporters, aren't going to be rebuilt. Every heinous decision out of the Supreme Court that Kavanaugh signs on to is going to rebound on her, forever. Between that and the $3.7 million war chest that the grassroots has raised to hand over to her 2020 Democratic challenger, she's going to have a very uncomfortable two years. We'll make sure of that.
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I think she will not run...............she will take her new husband and go visit the oligarchs in Russia that gave him money..........
And as far as I am of the opinion she is a traitor................. 
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happy with the Big Blue Wave engulfing the Nation.. Maine, too!
and ME-2 may have to go to ranked-choice in what should have been a shoo-in for the Republican incumbent (no incumbent has lost the seat for over a century).
Poliquin claimed round 1 win, as if that is a thing. 
The repubs in ME-2 are going to be mega pissed if Poliquin loses to Golden because of ranked choice because in the old system he would have been declare the winner with 1,910 more votes then Golden. New system requires 50% of the votes to win. Poliquin had 46%. If the independent voters liked Golden better, then Poliquin loses. We'll see how it goes. I can see the repubs screaming about how ranked choice is a scam and unconstitutional, which is not true in this circumstance because we wouldn't be doing it. That has already been evaluted by the courts. Repubs scream whenever they can't have an unfair advantage and they don't care about democracy. They just want to win and rule over us all. I'm sick of these entitled assholes. Let them throw a fit. We all had to endure their boy LePage for 8 years. It's time for the Dems in Maine now. We'll have a Dem gov and Dem majorities in the Maine House and Senate, so I think repubs aren't going to get their way.
https://www.pressherald.com/2018/11/06/poliquin-golden-race-will-come-down-to-ranked-choice-voting/
The article was from 3 days ago so wasn't sure what the update is since there seems to be so little out there on this (I guess except locally).
I believe California does similar now...
I mean really - people don't realize that rural Maine is in bad shape and I think in their case, it's "pride" that makes them keep voting against their own interests... and as they say, "Pride is the mother of arrogance".
and set in motion the level of crazy that we are now suffering from.
Case in point - You had what I call an "annoying Republican" - Bob Bennett in Utah (originally elected in 1992). Come 2010, you had Mike Lee go full-on teabagger batshit crazy and and Bennett was primaried by him. That in turn caused Hatch to rear up and take notice, resulting in him shifting his already-RW self into a race to dive off the cliff into a whole pit of teabaggery in order to get re-elected. And as time moved on, the old-timers were literally marinating in that stuff and it reflected in more and more nastiness in their hearings.
For those of us who have followed these guys for a number of years, it has really been a bug-out to see the extreme right tack that many of them took in order to not be "primaried" and it just made it worse for everyone. And they created a new "base" to rally around them and adopt the crazy stuff.
This is what the billions of Koch money did. 