This local Maine journalist neatly frames some of Shenna Bellows' strengths and Susan Collins' vulnerabilities:
Q: Why do DFA and others think Shenna Bellows has much room to accelerate her increase in voter support?
I was leaving the day job to go interview her and offered up an explanation for my early departure from the office.
“Who’s Shenna Bellows?” the coworkers wondered.
Exactly. And these people live on the Internet.
Q: Why is Collins' support a mile wide but an inch deep?
Susan Collins ... has become the de facto vote for the politically lazy, those who like to pat themselves on the back for not being “partisan.”
Q: Why does it matter (1 of the many reasons)?
Collins ignored [Ferguson], but made sure to release a statement on the “GAO finding administration acted unlawfully in Bergdahl swap”;
(Maine’s grandfather, [Independent US Senator] Angus King, also ignored [Ferguson], but accepted the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and celebrated the World Acadian Congress.)