Genius: Platner camp destroyed by their own dumb 'LISTEN TO US' survey, and YOU can join the fun!
I do not think "must consult the feedback and proposals of the people" means what you think it means.
Wait, you mean the Nazi tattoo guy’s campaign is having trouble facing the MeToo accusations and flailing about wildly?
NO.
WAY.
Dave Weigel pointed out on X Wednesday that Graham Platner’s collapsing “movement” is in very funny death throes right now. I mean, that’s not what Dave said specifically, but I’m just summarizing the end result here. I mean, besides the obvious end result that Susan Collins is going to win in a walk.
See Platner’s peeps (they seem like the kind who use youth-isms cringily) sent out this two-question volunteer survey and, well, it’s very funny.
it’s not just the sending of the survey itself. Weigel adds:
Here’s the text sent out, per Weigel.
We’ve said from the very beginning that this campaign was never about Graham but about a movement of working people united to take back power.
But yesterday, the Maine Democratic Party said that our movement will “have no role in determining our next Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, nor in determining what this process looks like.” Instead, under their watch and direction, they allowed the DC-based Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee to send staffers to plan a potential nominating process behind closed doors. Both the state and national parties cut our team, our volunteers, and our vast networks of supporters out of the conversation completely.
We firmly believe that the supporters and volunteers who built this movement deserve to have a real role in any nomination process. If the Maine Democratic Party hopes to harness our movement, and avoid disillusioning the hundreds of thousands of supporters who came into the fray because of our movement’s policies, it must consult the feedback and proposals of the people who built and sustained this.
Your feedback will be sent to the Maine Democratic Party via this form:
So the campaign sent it out as if it’s the chance for some kind of revolution in Maine, a fight to keep Nazi-tattoos on the ballot. And guess what? ANYONE CAN RESPOND BY VISITING THE LINK!!!!!
THE LINK: CLICK HERE.
I have some proposed answers.
Q1: “What message do you have for the Democratic party?”
A1: LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Q2: “What message do you have for Graham?”
A2: Gerechtigkeit des universums, pal.
I’m not the only person who thought of great answers, of course. Here are two screenshots sent to me by email.
That seems about right.
A lot of the replies on X are from those on the right sharing the survey and encouraging respondents to encourage Platner to stay in the race. For the obvious reason that he’ll lose.
Others … take it up a few notches.
A good time was had by all. Still, you can always rely on Jim Geraghty to have the most correct answer, though.
“I’m not saying it’s certain Platner won’t withdraw from the race, but this is the move of a campaign that does not want to withdraw from the race.”
Yep.