Finally! A Write-In Campaign I Can Get Behind

This is just nutty enough – it should work. 

And who am I to deride anything that would, or anyone who wants to do the right thing by *check notes* Maine’s ‘abandoned voters’?

Not me, sisters and brothers.

I love this idea.

Especially as this…lumberjack…was selected, not elected, by the Maine Democrat Party after their first choice – and every progressive socialist’s darling – Graham Platner, oyster faux farmer extraordinaire, was run out of town on a rail by a panicked Democrat establishment.

Troy Jackson even says he and Platner are the same-same…sort of.

Far-Left Maine Senate Candidate Troy Jackson says he and accused rapist Graham Platner “were pretty aligned”:

“Me and Graham were pretty aligned on our policies. I believe Medicare for all…I’ve been fighting for that forever.” pic.twitter.com/Rhlm64j2lD

— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 22, 2026

And they kind of sort of when it comes to women and communist principles. 

pic.twitter.com/punyouJdYf

— Pride🇺🇲 (@sunsethappyhour) August 22, 2026

So why aren’t Mainers cottoning to the folksy guy from the little backwoods lumber town?

“Troys’ always been an…ahh…what’s the word…asshole…”
😂

— Zeke (@Old_Stoolie) August 24, 2026

Well. 

They feel cheated, abused, and abandoned. As if the powers that be just swooped in and swept out their guy. The bad boy THEY had all picked out and were swooning over.

Over 156,000 Mainers in June cast their ballots for a working-class candidate who spoke directly to the daily struggles we Mainers are facing. We chose Graham Platner, an oyster farmer, combat veteran, and former harbormaster. But, when sexual assault allegations came out after the primary, it was shocking how quickly the party establishment pulled the rug out from under him.

I can only imagine that Graham must have felt that everyone had abandoned him. And to our disappointment, he dropped out under the pressure. Overnight, voters had their votes and their voices essentially stolen from them.

And they want him back. 

Kind of like how when your parents told teenage you that you weren’t allowed to date naughty Johnny Rotten Socks from across the tracks anymore.

…Our first thought was, let’s make these write-in votes for Graham count. I believe thousands of Mainers are already planning to write in Graham Platner as a protest vote. But under Maine election law, write-in votes for an undeclared candidate are discarded and won’t even be tallied.

Secondly, if we can convince Platner to register as a write-in candidate, we can bring the disenfranchised voters back to the polls in November. We recognize this all hinges on convincing Platner to formally submit his declaration of write-in candidacy and we’re working on that. The deadline for the Secretary of State to receive Graham’s write-in candidacy application quickly approaches as it must be received by 5 p.m. on Aug. 25.

That he was bad to the bone, would only bring you down, and they were doing this for your own good.

Oh, my gosh – for some people, sometimes being told ‘no’ is the biggest ‘yes’ in the world.

Some Maine Dems still prefer a rapey Nazi to a dimwit career politician who married his cousin.

— Better Maine (@MaineLogic) August 24, 2026

And that would track with this crowd.

They’re going for it, and all I can tell them is, ‘Get some!’

I agree.

YOU WAS ROBBED

“Write in Graham Platner to give abandoned voters a voice in November!” — Bangor Daily News writer

🚨 LMFAO! Some Democrats are reportedly starting a movement to WRITE-IN vote for Graham Platner in the Maine US Senate race, instead of voting Troy Jackson (D) over Sen. Susan Collins (R)

DO IT!

“Write in Graham Platner to give abandoned voters a voice in November!” — Bangor… pic.twitter.com/8IQfj7ztc2

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 24, 2026

I want every last Platner voter whose heart still skips a beat at the thought of that hairy, tattooed chest and paunch parading drunkenly down the Senate halls to go where their heart leads them, not their head.

This is still America, right?

And I’m pretty sure they was robbed…just sayin’.

(And don’t any of you tell them differently.)

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