Sara Gideon
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Oct 18, 2026
Martha MacCallumHOST
Hmm.
Matt WhitlockGUEST
'Cause she's looking better in a lot of polls right now than she did at this time in 2020, and she was running against a much better opponent in Sara Gideon in 2020.
Martha MacCallumHOST
Yeah.
Matt WhitlockGUEST
But at this time in 2020, polls had her down from six to 15 points.
Rob FlahertyHOST
First of all, let's just take a look, let's, let's venture back in ye olde time machine and go back to 2020, the year of our Lord.
Rob FlahertyHOST
Susan Collins runs against Sarah Gideon.
Rob FlahertyHOST
Here's the final battery of polls that we had.
Rob FlahertyHOST
We had s- Emerson College the c- oh, the day before the election, 48 to 42, Gideon plus 6.
Rob FlahertyHOST
SurveyUSA on October 29th, Gideon plus 1.
Rob FlahertyHOST
There was no poll in the last months of the, p- public poll in the last two months of the campaign that showed anything but Sarah Gideon winning, and, and the, the crusher of dreams, Susan Collins, comes out-
Jesse LehrichHOST
It wasn't even close.
Rob FlahertyHOST
It wasn't even close.
Emily JashinskyHOST
That's one of the hopes that people have in Texas as well, is that they're just not picking up on...
Emily JashinskyHOST
And that was the big problem in 2020 with Sarah Gideon, is that, uh, when pollsters look back on what may have went wrong, they thought they were under-sampling working class white men in rural areas.
Emily JashinskyHOST
And so I think people are still hoping, and they probably have some good reason to believe, that pollsters haven't found good ways to correct for that underweighting.
Emily JashinskyHOST
But [laughs] it's such a... 2018 was a bad environment.
Caroline WrenGUEST
She was also the only Republican Senate incumbent or challenger to hold their Democrat opponent to less than 89% of the people who disapprove of Trump.
Caroline WrenGUEST
Sarah Gideon, who was her opponent in 2020, only won 71% of Trump disapprovers.
Caroline WrenGUEST
So every other Democrat Senate candidate in Trump's first term won with at least 89% of Trump disapprovers.
Caroline WrenGUEST
And the key to Collins' win in 2020 was where Trump's disapproval was about 58%, and Biden won by nine points, was because she ran far ahead of Trump with white women.
Steve RobinsonHOST
And that goes back to even the B.I.W. letter.
Steve RobinsonHOST
Like the guy sent a letter to B.I.W. with his like signed with his title and the House speaker was also on it saying, you better you better throw some more money and more jobs to the union that's paying me right now or we're going to take away tax credits like it would be unfortunate if He actually put that into the text of the letter and signed it and delivered it and convinced Sarah Gideon that it was somehow going to be in her interest to join him on that.
Steve RobinsonHOST
But it is.
Steve RobinsonHOST
You're right, Seamus, that that's like it's there.
Batya Ungar-SargonHOST
Um
Tim FullertonGUEST
... you know, I thought that Susan Collins was gonna lose six years ago to Sara Gideon, and then she won by [laughs] eight or nine points-
Batya Ungar-SargonHOST
[laughs]
Tim FullertonGUEST
...
George GerboHOST
The 73-year-old has historically overperformed when her outlook was bad.
George GerboHOST
Every public poll showed her losing in 2020, but Collins eventually beat Democrat Sarah Gideon by nine percentage points.
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Sarah LongwellGUEST
It's a firmly blue state.
Jessica TarlovHOST
You look at what's going on the governor level and then what's happening in this Senate race, and Susan Collins does not present as well as she did in 2020, and she has taken a l- a lot of votes that the average Mainer would not be happy with, and yet is still leading in polling margin of error, but she was trailing Sara Gideon the whole time-
Sarah LongwellGUEST
Yeah
Jessica TarlovHOST
...
Steve RobinsonGUEST
I would say that Senator Collins is, is favored to win this one, although it will be the closest election that she's had just based on, uh, demographic changes in Maine.
Steve RobinsonGUEST
Uh, since 2020 when she beat Sara Gideon, the state has changed considerably.
Steve RobinsonGUEST
Uh, during COVID we had 25,000 or 30,000 Democrat baby boomers move here from Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts.
Steve RobinsonGUEST
They bought up, uh, you know, coastal enclaves, and they brought their politics with them.
JayHOST
Um, by the way, do you think Susan Collins is gonna pull this one out? Or do you think, uh, Troy Jackson's gonna take it?
BradHOST
It's tough, right? Because I remember the last, uh, in 2020 was when she last run, um, and she was running against Sarah Jacobs, and the polling had Sarah Jacobs, like, winning some- sometimes, some polls as much, as many as, like, nine points.
JayHOST
Yeah.
BradHOST
And Susan Collins beat her pretty handily.
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