Eugene Robinson: It’s Logical that This Mess on Dem Side Is Good for Collins

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ROBINSON: "Well, she does or she doesn’t, right, because I’ve seen reports on both sides of that question. I’ve seen reports that -- yeah, and it’s logical that this is good for Collins, that, you know, this complete mess on the Democratic side, and she just sort of cruises along and she always squeaks by and maybe she’ll do it again. However, I I’ve seen conflicting reports saying that her campaign staff was not that worried about having to run against Platner because they thought he was a flawed candidate, a fatally flawed candidate, and, in the end, Mainers would would turn to her. And now she doesn’t know who she’s going to be running against, but it won’t be somebody, presumably, with all the baggage that Platner had. And so this could cut both ways. We’ll see how it works out. It is — if this has to happen from the Democratic point of view, you know, Maine is probably not a bad place for it to happen just because it’s a state with not a huge population. It’s a state where people kind of get along. It’s a state where people, you know, you could pull off a 600-person convention and, I think, sell a candidate to the voters in the time that remains. But we'll see."