
My online friends glibly explain to me that the weak turnout for Hillary in northern Maine was because rural rednecks are racists who won’t vote for a woman. My online friends are idiots. They haven’t looked it up that local voters vanquished Mitt Romney in favor of President Obama four years ago. Or that these supposedly backwards backwoods natives rank their lady U.S. Senator, Susan Collins, second only to Bernie Sanders in constituent approval. She, a Republican, pushed hard for a bipartisan gun control bill after the Orlando massacre. Yeah, that wasn’t in your News Feed.