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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSusan Collins' remarkable 5-year journey from 2nd most popular Senator to LEAST popular. #ETTD
For years, the most unpopular senator in Morning Consult rankings has been Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). Its hard to love Senate leadership to the Democrats, he is the face of evil, and to Republicans, his every failure to deliver on a specific policy counts against him.
But according to the latest rankings, that title no longer belongs to McConnell. Instead, the most unpopular senator is now Maines Susan Collins:
Eli Yokley
@eyokley
NEW: Our latest Senate approval rankings are live. I took a look at the most vulnerable lawmakers:
Susan Collins is now the most unpopular senator (taking that distinction from McConnell) #MESen
Martha McSally is taking heat from all sides. #AZSen
https://morningconsult.com/2020/01/16/impeachment-trial-set-to-put-vulnerable-senate-republicans-in-a-familiar-bind/Link to tweet
This is an incredible turnaround. Just five years ago, Collins was the second most popular senator, behind only Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). For most of her career, she has enjoyed strong cross-party support, owing to her personal brand as a bipartisan legislator.
That has changed in the Trump era. Collins has been a deciding vote many of the presidents most major controversial actions, including the passage of the disastrous corporate tax cuts and the elevation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Legendary author Stephen King, one of Maines most famous residents, has made it his goal to defeat her, and she now has a number of Senate challengers in 2020 most prominently Maine House Speaker Sara Gideon, but also several others including former Maine Womens Forum director Betsy Sweet, defense attorney Bre Kidman, and independent candidate Tiffany Bond.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/mitch-mcconnell-is-no-longer-the-most-unpopular-senator-now-its-susan-collins/
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Susan Collins' remarkable 5-year journey from 2nd most popular Senator to LEAST popular. #ETTD (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Jan 2020
OP
BigDemVoter
(4,157 posts)1. Just getting a glimpse of that vile, slimy, lying, sack of shit
makes me want to vomit.
maxsolomon
(33,432 posts)2. She voted Innocent in the Clinton Impeachment trial.
On both charges.
Only GOP Senator to do so.
Eugene
(61,965 posts)3. As just mentioned on Rachel Maddow: "Susan Collins rarely misses an opportunity...
to make the wrong decision."
I wasn't watching who said it.
GReedDiamond
(5,318 posts)4. I believe that was David Jolly...nt