Opinion: Graham Platner is not representative of America

Of all the reasons that Maine residents were given to vote for Graham Platner in his race for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate — and many of them boiled down to beating Donald Trump and Republicans — the most disturbing one came from Bill Maher.

After telling his HBO audience ahead of the primary that "we need to restore balance in our government, and a Democratic Senate would help a lot with that," the talk-show host explained that, actually, we are all Graham Platner...