Andrew Sage
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A lot of voters aren't aware of it because in polls where they inform people that he had a Nazi tattoo, his support drops dramatically by like 30 points.
That said, he was leading until like two or three days ago, I think was the most recent poll that came out that had a main governor, Janet Mills, in the lead above him.
We're not talking about the main race.
We're still in the primary, right?
So he's challenging Janet Mills for the primary.
And yeah, at present, according to SoCal Strategies, who did a poll very recently, and this is the most recent poll, Mills has 41% from likely voters and Plattner has 36%, although about a fifth of respondents are undecided.
And yeah, this is a pretty dramatic upset because prior to the whole Nazi tattoo news coming out, Plattner was leading Mills by about 34 points.
So this has gone from Plattner look to have it in the bag to it's pretty close.
Mills is ahead, not by a lead that's so commanding that it's a definite thing.
You know, a standard polling error could have them basically be neck and neck.
and we all should know at this point how frequently that kind of stuff happens.
Yeah, polling, never wrong.
But yeah, so I don't know.
It's one of those, somebody got angry at us on the subreddit being like, I can't believe they're hiding that like this has happened, you know, with this guy that they endorsed.
Like, no, we didn't endorse him.
And number two, like,
This this shit was breaking when we were recording the E.D.
We made like a reference about it, but not much had come out.