“(T)oday’s withdrawal by Mills was not a good move for our side - not for her, not for Platner, not for taking over the Senate. Platner has been minimally vetted. He has left minimal footprints besides his problematic social media posts, stupid tattoos, and a sketchy employment history. A primary victory, which looked inevitable, would have been some expiation of his sins: think about Bill Clinton and the 1992 primaries - winning the nomination put lots of baggage in the rear view mirror. Janet Mills should have soldiered on for a few more weeks, and lost with dignity. Nothing about her said “quitter” before today. There have been no landslides in American politics in this century. Elections since 2000 have been decided by extremely narrow margins, except for 2008. The path back to sanity runs through Maine; it is very difficult to win a Democratic majority in the Senate without winning Maine. The long and short of it is that we have now chosen to bet the farm on an untested candidate with lots of baggage. I wish I hadn’t seen this movie so many times before.”