What the fuck Maine?

[edhopper]

Biden 52.9% 430,023

Trump 44.2% 359,502


Collins 51.1% 414,970

Gideon 42.2% 342,698


Do you not understand how Government functions?

You want Biden for President, but to not be able to accomplish anything.

Or have you so bought into Collins bullshit to think she will not continue to be Mitch's lapdog.

[treestar]

1. Goes to show people like their own Senators/Representatives

It's everyone else's that make Congress dysfunctional.

[Laelth]

2. Cross-over Republicans.

They couldn’t vote for Trump, but they are pretty happy with Collins.



-Laelth

[peacefreak2.0]

3. Not all of us are buying the bullshit.

Please spare the broad brush.

[UncleTomsEvilBrother]

4. I think...

...this may be a simple case of people voting for the POTUS slot and nothing else. I think that's why there are run-offs in GA as well. People were REALLY focused on getting 45 out of office.

[Statistical]

7. Collins received about 40K more votes than Trump. That is a clear sign of split ticketing.

Some people couldn't stand Dumpy but they voted Biden and then straight Republican.

[Towlie]

13. The presidential contest in Maine has 52,449 more votes than the Senate contest.

For President, Biden - 419,309, Trump - 340,512. Total votes = 759,821.

For Senator, Collins - 383,227, Gideon - 324,145. Total votes = 707,372.

Counting isn't finished yet, but at this point there are 52,449 more votes for President than for Senator, supporting the hypothesis raised by UncleTomsEvilBrother.

[Mike 03]

15. Thanks for the numbers. That indeed is interesting.

[AkFemDem]

5. I have a friend in Maine who voted this way

She’s a Republican who hates Trump.

[SheltieLover]

6. Voting machines

[Statistical]

11. Maine uses paper ballots. I wish people wouldn't just jump to that as the answer to every single

scenario.

Also the scenario they rigged it for Collins but not also Trump is kinda hard to believe. Looking at the results it is clear a lot of people voted for Biden and Collins. There are a lot of Never Trump Republicans in Maine.

[uponit7771]

18. Then explain the earth splitting horridness of US polling !? There's NO explanation for the ...

... horridness of US polling that comes close to reasonable and screwing with the down stream data is reasonable as any related to how pollsters get this shit so wrong.

[mopinko]

20. tabulators are easy to hack.

unless there are robust audits, they are no more trustworthy than touchscreens.
ditto for aggregators. do they send the counts to boe via internet?

some of us tried to convince ppl to check the poll tapes at their precincts against boe counts.
if your local party org collects them, they should check them against official totals.

[sweetloukillbot]

8. People think Congress sucks

With the exception of THEIR Congressperson.

[DLCWIdem]

9. There was more than 2 running. About 5

[tulipsandroses]

10. That answer would be NO. Most Americans do not understand how govt functions

I am reminded of this study

If you are way into politics, you are not the average American. Not even close.

A new poll from the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg Public Policy Center reveals how shockingly little people know about even the most basic elements of our government and the Constitution that formed it.
[link:https://www.cnn.com/2017/09/13/politics/poll-constitution/index.html|

[Algernon Moncrieff]

12. It's not just Maine - and it is really the story of this election cycle

Republicans overperformed across the board, and one fact is very clear: in many places, voters chose Biden at the top of their ticket, and then voted Republican down-ballot. Case-in-point: NE-2 (Nebraska splits EVs like Maine). Biden won NE-2, but Republican Congressman Don Bacon was re-elected by about 5 points. Georgia narrowly voted for Biden, but didn't (as of yet - runoffs are coming) elect any Dems to the Senate.

[GreenPartyVoter]

14. Maine has been a ticket-splitting state for a long time.

[uponit7771]

17. Not like this, the polling on this alone was horrid and way outside of aggregate MOE

[uponit7771]

16. Voting machines or tabulators, anyone notice nearly ALL senate races were upside down? Even in 16

[2naSalit]

19. THat keeps popping up as an issue...

And I suspect something of that nature may have happened in my state.