Voters saw the “independent” for what she was.

Big Suze was such a class act that she didn’t even bother to deliver a concession speech. The second she lost, she fuckity-byed it out of there.

BANGOR, Maine — Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) greeted supporters at her election party throughout the night but was a no-show after losing her bid for a sixth term.

Her campaign played Semisonic’s “Closing Time” and began packing up the room without any concession speech from Collins.

  • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Watching some of those exit interviews was just astonishing with the way people were content with Collins but just decided it was time for a change of pace.

    I’m not sure I’d take all that at face value. If you are a voter that believes you are surrounded by hostile people of a different mind you’d play it off casually too.

    Nobody knew what they were walking into at the polls yesterday, for all we knew ICE was going to be out in force (also why a lot of us voted early) and all these people had lives to go back to, with no expectation that it would be the landslide it was. In what is still Trump’s US, it’s entirely possible some of those exit interviewees kept it deliberately casual just so that no one would have anything to hang on them later.