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Troy Jackson will be the replacement Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Maine after smoking his opposition in the 16 county delegate elections held over the weekend. Jackson will take on Sen. Susan Collins as a substitute for Graham Platner on the November ballot, and he got there by leveraging Platner\u2019s formidable organizing network to blow out his competition.<\/p>\n

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A total of 17,279 Mainers cast ballots in the race. Jackson\u2019s slate won the majority of the vote in 15 of 16 counties, and in most counties, including the biggest (Cumberland, home to the city of Portland), his slate won every delegate. Overall, he took more than 90 percent of the delegates, according to a review by the Prospect<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Jackson, a former state senator and third-place candidate for governor this year, therefore has enough support to secure an absolute majority on the first ballot at the July 25 convention in Bangor. The 101 state committee members wouldn\u2019t matter even if they voted as a bloc against Jackson.<\/p>\n

Jackson\u2019s top two opponents in the quick-strike nomination race, Secretary of State Shenna Bellows and public-health official Nirav Shah, both dropped out on Sunday and endorsed Jackson. Neither of them had a path to victory, as their slates failed to secure more than a handful of votes, and a few of those who did win also appeared on Jackson\u2019s slate.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn November, Mainers will defeat Susan Collins, and we will take back our Senate seat from the billionaires and corporations who think they own it,\u201d Jackson said on social media.<\/p>\n

The progressive Jackson, who earned the support of the Maine chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America in the governor\u2019s race, starts out $11 million behind Collins in fundraising, and that doesn\u2019t count the $8 million in the bank from Pine Tree Results PAC, Collins\u2019s own super PAC funded by billionaire private equity tycoons. But in a state with fewer than 900,000 registered voters, grassroots mobilization does matter. And Jackson just showed that his network has the aptitude to pull it off.<\/p>\n

An unexpected single-location countywide caucus on a weekend in July is a unique challenge, even if it was a high-profile event inside the state. Jackson identified a delegate slate, and members of Platner\u2019s volunteer network, which at its height numbered 15,000 across the state, swung to Jackson\u2019s side during the quick-strike process. The two agreed on most issues and put the concerns of working families, labor, and the need for universal health care first.<\/p>\n

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Organizers in \u201cJackson for Maine\u201d T-shirts left over from his gubernatorial run stormed the weekend caucuses, after making a week of phone bank calls to get supporters out. Jackson\u2019s longtime connection to the labor movement also helped with organizing; he has the endorsement of the state AFL-CIO.<\/p>\n

For John Kirk of Blue Hill (Hancock County) and his wife Susan, becoming a Jackson delegate was \u201cbased on his platform, his progressive track record and on the recommendation of our daughter and her friends in South Portland,\u201d he told me over text. Kirk\u2019s Democratic club held a straw poll early in the week and Jackson got two-thirds of the vote. Local state representative Nina Milliken and several other supporters organized the slate in conjunction with the campaign, while also collecting signatures for Jackson\u2019s candidacy. <\/p>\n

Outside the Hancock County meeting in Ellsworth, Kirk and others manned the table and talked to voters. \u201cIn the end it worked out,\u201d he said. Jackson\u2019s slate won 22 out of 23 delegates.<\/p>\n

A large number of delegate candidates in their personal statements spoke to the need to honor the will of the voters in Maine, who gave Platner the nomination with 72 percent of the vote in June. Platner withdrew after a credible allegation of sexual assault.<\/p>\n

The unusual circumstance created a one-week mini-campaign where television ads were nonexistent, outside groups did not exert any influence, and success was measured in grassroots muscle, getting people out to community meetings and having conversations with neighbors. Jackson\u2019s alignment with Platner\u2019s movement and the various forms of organization he could draw from made the contest child\u2019s play.<\/p>\n

Retail politics may be the only place Jackson will have an edge, given the financial disparity between the two candidates. But that can go far in a heavily dispersed state where turnout is usually pretty high. The caucuses became a test of how the candidates could reach people well below the din of campaign cash and on-air sound bites. And Jackson soared over the bar.<\/p>\n

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