{"id":6954,"date":"2026-06-30T07:37:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T14:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=6954"},"modified":"2026-06-30T07:37:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T14:37:54","slug":"platner-and-the-party-elite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=6954","title":{"rendered":"Platner and the Party Elite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not saying Platner is going to win but I will say that if he <em>does<\/em> win, it will be  a real wakeup call for the Democratic Party establishment. And he&#8217;s currently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.270towin.com\/2026-senate-polls\/maine\">ahead by a narrow margin<\/a> in the polls.<\/p>\n<p>This is because Platner is up against a headwind. He has high negatives (if I lived in Maine, I would have ranked him last or not at all in the primary). Plus, he&#8217;s running against an incumbent in a seat that has been Republican for many decades. If, despite all that, he wins, it means a lot.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, it creates a result asymmetry: if Platner loses by anything other than a landslide, it will not be as damning for the prospect of Left politics in swing states as a narrow win would be an endorsement of the same.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook&#8217;s algorithm recently fed me some of his ads and his messaging seems to be very tight and in tune with what can fly in a swing state.<\/p>\n<p>The main questions now are if he has any more skeletons in his closet, if the Collins campaign is going to drop an October surprise, and how bad any such dirt is. We shall see. But make no mistake: if he wins, it really says something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not saying Platner is going to win but I will say that if he does win, it will be a real wakeup call for the Democratic Party establishment. And he&#8217;s currently ahead by a narrow margin in the polls. This is because Platner is up against a headwind. He has high negatives (if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6954"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6956,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6954\/revisions\/6956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}