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Platner may be finished, but voters' hunger for change will remain

Graham Platner's bid for Maine Senate may be all but over, but it's likely other candidates will find themselves on a similar path in the future. The pattern of an outsider who beats the party establishment in primaries only to falter amid scandals is already…

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Platner may be finished, but voters' hunger for change will remain

Graham Platner's bid for Maine Senate may be all but over, but it's likely other candidates will find themselves on a similar path in the future. The pattern of an outsider who beats the party establishment in primaries only to falter amid scandals is already…

With Graham Platners campaign teetering from an allegation of sexual assault, theres no shortage of people arguing that the 41-year-old Maine oysterman and progressive political neophyte was always t…

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