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Miranda Devine: Don’t count Susan Collins out yet — tough Maine voters see right through lefty fairy tales

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Devine, M. (2026, November 2). Miranda Devine: Don’t count Susan Collins out yet — tough Maine voters see right through lefty fairy tales. New York Post. https://nypost.com/2026/11/01/opinion/dont-susan-collins-out-maine-voters-see-right-through-lefty-fairy-tales/

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Columnist Miranda Devine reports from Portland, Maine, during a campaign event, noting the stark contrast between liberal urban areas and conservative rural regions. She highlights Democrat Troy Jackson's aggressive attacks against Republican Senator Susan Collins at a town hall meeting, which were met with silence compared to applause for anti-Trump rhetoric by Senator Ed Markey. Despite challenges, Devine suggests that Collins remains resilient due to her understanding of diverse Maine constituencies, including the state’s reliance on imported heating oil and skepticism towards leftist policies in more rural areas.

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Despite predictions of defeat, Susan Collins remains a competitive candidate for re-election as Maine's senator. At a recent town hall in Scarborough, her Democratic opponent Troy Jackson struggled to get his points across against fellow Democrat and climate activist Sen. Ed Markey from neighboring Massachusetts. Meanwhile, Portland’s permissive social policies, including legal marijuana and safe injection sites, reflect a stark contrast with Collins' conservative base. Despite the unpopularity of such policies among her supporters, Collins has managed to maintain voter support in Maine by keeping a low profile and avoiding direct attacks on her record.

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Zombies were everywhere in hyper-liberal Portland, Maine, on Saturday night, and I’m not sure it was just Halloween.

right derogatory description of a liberal area
They are fed up with ads trashing her Democrat opponent Troy Jackson for, among other things, marrying his second cousin.

right mocking the Democratic candidate's personal life
She has kept such a low profile on the campaign that Jackson’s team displays a giant milk carton at his events featuring her face on a “missing persons” ad.

right describing negative campaigning against Collins
“The president is an all-you-can-eat buffet of corruption,” quipped Markey, whose frequent Trump jibes drew applause from the 100 people in the room, while his Collins attacks were met with silence.

right describing lack of support for Democratic attacks on Collins

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Leaning: leans strongly right for article 122292 (high confidence, 4 verified quotes) · logged 2026-11-02

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🔮 Pot is legal in Portland, as it is in New York and other blue cities with chronic street homelessness, not that those in charge would ever admit a connection to laissez- faire social policies that provide “safe” injecting sites and free needles.

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🔮 Meanwhile, Floris left the FBI last May for a lucrative job at Microsoft, where she joined her former mentor Lisa Monaco, the deputy AG who directed most of the lawfare against Trump and his allies during the Biden years.

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🔮 The Michigan senator told students at the University of Chicago last week how she plans to use the power that will come to Democrats if they win Senate control in the midterms next month.

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🔮 But, of course, that will rely on CNN moderator Erin Burnett doing her job to hold him accountable.

2026-10-12 · assertive framing · With all these ‘sick’ Democrats like James Talarico, one wonders: how are they in the lead?

🔮 He was talking about how a temporary rise in gas prices was “a small price to pay” for stopping Iran from developing nuclear missiles that could annihilate the cities of our allies in Europe and the Middle East, and might one day even strike American cities.

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🔮 The next month, Olah was dismayed when Pope Leo, who has a math degree, released an encyclical letter rejecting the entire concept of machine consciousness.

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🔮 Ithaca Democrat Mayor Robert Cantelmo damned the accused men as “perpetrators” and suspended “Greek life” at Cornell that he said “failed to hold the perpetrators to account.”

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🔮 “The requirement of the board would be that I would show up for four meetings a year,” he told the addiction podcast “Dopey.”

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🔮 First it was New York’s unlovely Mayor Mamdani Trump did the great honor of visiting at Gracie Mansion on Monday.

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🔮 Instead, one of my obsessed DOJ harassers privatized his Russia fantasy — one he could never prove as a fed,” says Caputo.

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Zombies were everywhere in hyper-liberal Portland, Maine, on Saturday night, and I’m not sure it was just Halloween. asserted

it → ’m → night

I was offered a free “doobie” several times by a kind old hippie after being in a bar for 10 minutes. asserted

I → offer → minutes

Pot is legal in Portland, as it is in New York and other blue cities with chronic street homelessness, not that those in charge would ever admit a connection to laissez- faire social policies that provide “safe” injecting sites and free needles. asserted

that → admit → sites

You may have guessed it’s not exactly Susan Collins territory. uncertain

it → guess → ?

Despite the fact that the elusive Collins is aggressively uncollegial to MAGA Republicans and regarded as a RINO nuisance by Donald Trump, Portlandians will tell you she is the president’s puppet. asserted

she → regard → you

They are fed up with ads trashing her Democrat opponent Troy Jackson for, among other things, marrying his second cousin. asserted

They → feed → cousin

She has kept such a low profile on the campaign that Jackson’s team displays a giant milk carton at his events featuring her face on a “missing persons” ad. asserted

team → keep → ad

At a town hall in Scarborough on Sunday, Jackson barely got a word in over the Massachusetts climate zealot, Sen. Ed Markey, with whom he shared a stage. “The president is an all-you-can-eat buffet of corruption,” quipped Markey, whose frequent Trump jibes drew applause from the 100 people in the room, while his Collins attacks were met with silence. asserted

attacks → get → silence

Jackson only became animated when railing against rich people like “Elon Musk and his merry band of scumbags …” asserted

Jackson → become → scumbags

“I met my first billionaire in seventh grade, and it wasn’t good,” he said mysteriously. asserted

he → meet → grade

The pair blamed high energy prices on Trump’s “illegal” war in Iran. asserted

pair → blame → Iran

While they accurately diagnosed Mainers’ biggest bugbear, their solution was a false promise. asserted

solution → diagnose → bugbear

Markey claimed that the way out of Maine’s structural energy problem is green energy subsidies from the federal government. asserted

way → claim → government

He vowed Jackson, a self-described fifth-generation logger, would be “our climate champion” in the Senate. asserted

Jackson → vow → Senate

If Collins loses, it will likely be blamed on the fact that the price of home heating oil has almost doubled in Maine in the past year. asserted

price → lose → year

Every week, Post columnist Miranda Devine sits down for exclusive and candid conversations with the most influential disruptors in Washington on ‘Pod Force One.’ asserted

Devine → sit → Force

It’s a complaint that resonates in a state where most people use heating oil to keep their houses warm in winter rather than natural gas or electricity, and almost all of it is imported across the border from Canada. asserted

all → ’ → Canada

She understands her state and always outperforms the polls. asserted

She → understand → polls

She knows the coast (“northern Massachusetts”) is a different world from the self-sufficient, deeply wooded parts of inland Maine, or the former mill towns where the remnants of the white working class live alongside Somali immigrants, or the potato farms of the east where she grew up. asserted

she → know → east

Where life is rugged, leftist fairy tales don’t fly. asserted

tales → fly → ?

It’s why Collins has hung on for 30 years in the Senate, pork-barreling strategically, keeping her counsel and defying the naysayers at every election. asserted

Collins → ’ → election

What an irony if the Republican majority is saved by the Senate’s most Trump-skeptical member. asserted

majority → save → member

Miranda Devine: Don’t count Susan Collins out yet — tough Maine voters see right through lefty fairy tales

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