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calguy

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5. I agree that we should bring in younger candidates and their ideas

Reply to kcoates (Reply #4)

Fri Oct 10, 2025, 04:46 PM

Oct 2025

but ultimately, it’s up to younger voters to show up at the polls and vote for their own futures. The only reason we keep getting older candidates is because the younger generations haven’t, for one reason or another, claimed the power that is rightfully theirs for the taking.

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ME-SEN: Sanders (I): Mills (D) should stay out of Maine Senate race [View all] RandySF Oct 2025 OP

Both wings use this argument when it's convenient EdmondDantes_ Oct 2025 #1

As a Mainer here chelsea0011 Oct 2025 #2

Shed be a good congressperson SSJVegeta Oct 2025 #3

Mills kcoates Oct 2025 #4

I agree that we should bring in younger candidates and their ideas calguy Oct 2025 #5

Mills will be 79yo in Jan, 2027.... I like her, but that is just too old a starting point for Ars Longa Oct 2025 #6

On paper, Mills is the strongest candidate but there is a danger that people will think 79 is just too old for a Midwestern Democrat Oct 2025 #28

Sanders is 84 JustAnotherGen Oct 2025 #37

My husband and I just spent a week in Maine for our 35th anniversary Quiet Em Oct 2025 #7

I think Gov Janet Mills should Do what she Cha Oct 2025 #8

Gov. Janet Mills to launch U.S. Senate campaign on Tuesday, source says Cha Oct 2025 #9

Why does a Senator from Vermont have any say in whom Maine Democrats vote for? MichMan Oct 2025 #10

Free Speech? mountain grammy Oct 2025 #11

Bernie can say what he wants RandySF Oct 2025 #13

Like Fetterman? mountain grammy Oct 2025 #15

Sanders was one of the earliest supporters of Fetterman. W_HAMILTON Oct 2025 #16

No RandySF Oct 2025 #34

but he's a Democrat... mountain grammy Oct 2025 #35

Dear lord we can go round and round. RandySF Oct 2025 #38

What I want to know is... Why is it Cha Oct 2025 #14

I will be donating to Mills LetMyPeopleVote Oct 2025 #12

Sanders posturing here is laughable. Mills is popular with a record of statewide victory, she can beat Collins tritsofme Oct 2025 #17

The fact that she may be a "likely one term senator", isn't exactly a mark in her favor.... Jack Valentino Oct 2025 #18

Better than Collins pulling off another win. tritsofme Oct 2025 #19

I remember another supposedly 'safe bet' the party made in 2016--- with an ALL-WHITE ticket Jack Valentino Oct 2025 #20

ANYTHING would be better than that! n/t DFW Oct 2025 #23

At her age, Janet is indeed probably looking at serving one term. DFW Oct 2025 #27

status quo jaymac Oct 2025 #29

"unnecessary and divisive primary" is bad now? betsuni Oct 2025 #21

One of the more "dripping with irony" statements I have seen DFW Oct 2025 #24

My brains overheated as they struggled with the irony, had to go to bed with a cold towel on my forehead to rest. betsuni Oct 2025 #25

Considering the source, DFW Oct 2025 #26

Yes, I really lulzd at that one. Nixie Oct 2025 #30

I have never met Platner, so I have no opinion about him DFW Oct 2025 #22

yeah but jaymac Oct 2025 #31

In 2015/16 Hillary Clinton received 55% of the vote. Bernie Sanders received 43%. Quiet Em Oct 2025 #32

Rigged Democratic primaries is a conspiracy theory. This is a forum for supporters of the Democratic Party. betsuni Oct 2025 #33

Primaries Are Healthy JustAnotherGen Oct 2025 #36

Maine Democrats should definitely listen to a Senator from Vermont who is not a Democrat Shrek Oct 2025 #39