🧵 Saga file #139
Maine Senate race
Nov 4, 1 AM ET to Nov 6, 11 AM ET
- 2parts so far
- 50outlets carried a part
- 🫏22 · 8 · 18🐘left · center · right
- 2.4 daysrunning so far
- 43 sof TV captions
- 5radio newscasts
- 27people retold it online
🧵 One running story, told across days: each part is a story of its own on the front pages, joined to the others because our tools judged them one case, event or investigation as it developed. A part can be joined wrongly; the saga tracker says how they're made.
📰 Spread
each part on the front pages, hour by hour
🧩 The parts
in the order of their latest news, each in its color on the charts; the bar is the outlets that carried it. 🔴 on the front pages now, 📄 a page of its own, 🗄️ older than a week
🧩 How it's been told
the stories under the saga, day by day, from our motif index: each day its most-told, wider for more tellers, colored by genre (✨ new to the saga that day)
- Archetypesa kind of person
- Plotswhat happened
- Beliefsa premise
- Theorieswhat people think is behind it
- Argumentsa move in an argument
- ⚪ left white, the smaller genres:
- Exhortationsa call to act
- Fri Nov 6 ✨ Good riddance 3✨ Deeply concerned 2
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it, part by part
- Susan Collins, beaten in the midterms, is mocked with her own catchphrase: now she is 'very concerned' about her job. told by 10 people, on “Democrat Troy Jackson defeats Susan Collins in Maine Senate race”
- Susan Collins is out at last: she has finally 'learned her lesson' and can retire her concerns. told by 10 people, on “Democrat Troy Jackson defeats Susan Collins in Maine Senate race”
- Susan Collins losing has cheered people's souls. told by 7 people, on “Democrat Troy Jackson defeats Susan Collins in Maine Senate race”