Mainers finally sick of their version of Tom Carper

I know Susan Collins is an “R” and Tom Carper is nomnially a “D” but they are so close to each other in political philosphy that party affiliation don’t really mean much.

The bad news for Sen. Susan Collins, Republican from Maine, just doesn’t stop. First she learns that she’s the second least popular senator, after Mitch McConnell, and now she’s getting a glimpse into how unpopular she is in Maine.

The Democratic primary to determine her challenger is months away, but the fundraising for the establishment-backed candidate is very strong, particularly at home in Maine. In just the first two weeks of her campaign, Sara Gideon out-raised Collins’ total for the whole of the year from in-state donors, HuffPost reports.

Gideon, the state House speaker, formally announced on June 24, and raised almost $1.1 million in the final ten days of the quarter, the end of June. About $453,000 of that—43% of it—was in $200 or less donations. The FEC doesn’t require that donors at that level be identified, so it’s not clear how many of those are Mainers. But 44% of the remaining $600,500 came from in-state. Collins, on the other hand, raised $2 million in the last quarter, but just 1.3% of it, about $26,000, was from small-dollar donors. That’s bad. This is worse: 95% of her total haul came from out-of-state. Less than $100,000 was given from people in Maine.