ME-SEN: Maine Voters Don't Like Susan Collins

[RandySF]

A new Pine Tree State poll in Maine finds Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) at just 14% favorability and with an unfavorability of 57 percent.



https://politicalwire.com/2025/06/27/maine-voters-dont-like-susan-collins/

[hatrack]

1. If I were her, I'd be . . . what's the word . . . "concerned".

on Susan Collins.

[Best_man23]

2. But yet, Maine voters keep sending her back to Washington DC

Like saying they're going to order something different next time they go to their favorite restaurant, but keeping ordering the same thing the next time and every time.

[Wiz Imp]

12. I'm pretty sure her favorability ratings have never been remotely this low

In the past, she always maintained favorability ratings at worst about even with her unfavorability. It appears to me the voters have finally gotten totally sick and disgusted with her.

[allegorical oracle]

14. Yep -- never understood it. Every Mainer I've ever met has been progressive/liberal. nt

[Celerity]

18. see post 17

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220435816#post17

[ananda]

3. What totally baffles me is why she ever won in the first place.

Maine really lost the thread for a long time.

[Celerity]

17. Do Democrats Who Supported Susan Collins in 2020 Regret Their Vote? Nope.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/01/17/do-democrats-who-supported-susan-collins-in-2020-regret-their-vote/



Mary Ann Lynch, of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, is a model Democrat. She began her political career as a staffer for Democratic Governor Joe Brennan and has supported the party with donations and volunteer work for more than 40 years. In the past two elections, she voted a straight Democratic slate—Joe Biden, U.S. Representative Chellie Pingree, Governor Janet Mills—with one exception. Last fall, with control of the Senate on the line and the Brett Kavanaugh hearings a traumatic recent memory, Lynch cast a ballot for Republican Senator Susan Collins. She has no regrets.

“I’m a ticket splitter,” Lynch told me. “I don’t often split, but I do split. I vote for the person who I feel would be the best for Maine and for the country. Instead of saying we need more Democrats or more Republicans, I would say we would need more people like Susan Collins who reach across the aisle to get things done.” Lynch does not share the ominous feeling, increasingly common among Democrats, that time is running out. A paper-thin majority in Congress is likely to disappear next year, leaving just months to pass paid family leave and protect voters from conservative attempts at disenfranchisement. As the likes of Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema pettifog and delay, many Democrats wish for just one more Senate seat. And as Texas and other states pass restrictive abortion laws unchecked by the Supreme Court, frustrated Democrats turn to voters in Maine, who returned Collins to the Senate last fall despite her vote for Kavanaugh and the Republican tax bill, and ask: Why?

Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin endorses GOP Sen. Susan Collins for 2020

https://rollcall.com/2019/04/11/democratic-sen-joe-manchin-endorses-gop-sen-susan-collins-for-2020/

Exit polling indicates that 13 percent of Collins’s support in 2020 came from registered Democrats. Women overall broke for Collins over her challenger, Sara Gideon, 49 to 46 percent. How did these constituencies make a decision seemingly so against their own interests? How do they feel about it now? Ask them, and their answers often evoke nostalgia for things lost—paper mills, union jobs, and a bipartisan, collegial Congress. They also share a lack of urgency about the slow-moving constitutional crisis instigated by Donald Trump, a sign, along with the election of Glenn Youngkin in Virginia this fall, that Democrats will have to do more to win than point to Trump’s misdeeds, especially now that he’s off the ballot.

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Collins’s votes in the Senate since her reelection have been just fine with Green, too. This summer, she helped defeat the For the People Act, arguing that its sweeping voting rights provisions—making Election Day a federal holiday, restoring eligibility to felons who’ve served their sentences, keeping names on voting rolls, automatically registering eligible voters—went far beyond preserving the right to vote. Green wasn’t convinced either that such sweeping action was necessary in response to laws such as Georgia’s, which forbids giving water to people waiting to vote. (With many polling places closed in Black areas, lines are often long.) Should people be allowed, Green mused, to give voters even such small gifts as a bottle of water? “What is that law saying? I don’t know,” he said. “Leave it to Susan. I trust her.”

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[ananda]

19. In my view, they are Republicans in spirit.

A vote for any Republican is a vote against democracy
and humanity.

Compromise, my ass, in other words.

[Lovie777]

4. And yet they keep voting for her...............

this time Fetterman will support her, and again, Manchin as well.

[Emile]

5. So do they want someone who is more right-wing?

Or more left-wing?

[doc03]

6. I am concerned nt

[SSJVegeta]

7. If she wants to win re election, she should become a Democrat

[Buckeyeblue]

8. But they keep voting for her.

[In It to Win It]

11. Damn. Didn't realize you beat me to it

[Paladin]

9. What's to like?

She's been a caricature of a terrible legislator for years and years.

[In It to Win It]

10. But they keep voting for her 🙄

[Baitball Blogger]

13. Too little, too late.

[JI7]

15. Just like Kentucky doesn't like McConnell but they keep electing them

[Blue Owl]

16. If I were Susan Collins, I'd be a bit concerned.....