Yet again, the Democratic Party has ejected the party's chosen nominee. Graham Platner, whose Nazi tattoo did not discourage Maine voters from voting for him, has become even more toxic since the primary. Or has he? No, this, like the 2024 Presidential Election, is a reaction to polls. When it was clear that Joe Biden was going to get creamed in the general election, the Democrats 'convinced' him to withdraw and then selected an equally flawed candidate to replace him. Now Platner, the second notably Democrat candidate this year to be brought down by sexual assault accusations (i.e., Eric Swalwell), has been jettisoned by his party and the party will select a new candidate. You know, democracy.
Bill Clinton had a lot of baggage in 1992, including serial infidelity and a rape accusation (i.e., Juanita Broaddrick), but the polls said he was a winner, which he was. Bill Clinton's sex life was less of a threat than his smoking marijuana. "I didn't inhale," is a more memorable line, perhaps because Billy Crystal riffed on it during the Oscars. But then there was Barack Obama, who documented his membership in the weed-smoking Choom Gang in one of his biographies, and it was hardly a blip. He had an America-hating pastor, ties to a Weather Underground terrorist, and questions about his citizenship. Not a problem. He polled well.
Democrats will toss losers over the side in a heartbeat but stick with seriously flawed candidates if the polls look good. If Platner was still polling well, the excuses for his behavior would be flowing.
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