The BDN Opinion section operates independently and does not set news policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com Mark D. Brewer is a professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Maine. The views expressed here are his own. Much of our political attention in Maine, and indeed in the United States as a whole, so far in this election cycle has been focused on Graham Platner. Since bursting onto the state and eventually national political stage in August 2025, Platner has generated strong and enthusiastic support among...