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🗞️ Story file #1477

Senator Susan Collins loses re-election bid

Nov 5, 2 PM ET to Nov 5, 6 PM ET

📰 read it at: New York Magazine The Guardian Vox The Blaze The Daily Caller Townhall

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

  1. Nov 5, 2 PM ETpeak: on 6 front pages

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

36WedThupeak: 6 front pages, Wed 4 PMWed Nov 4, 2 AM ET: on 2 front pages (2 right)Wed Nov 4, 3 AM ET: on 2 front pages (2 right)Wed Nov 4, 4 AM ET: on 2 front pages (2 right)Wed Nov 4, 5 AM ET: on 2 front pages (2 right)Wed Nov 4, 6 AM ET: on 2 front pages (2 right)Wed Nov 4, 7 AM ET: on 2 front pages (2 right)Wed Nov 4, 8 AM ET: on 2 front pages (2 right)Wed Nov 4, 9 AM ET: on 3 front pages (3 right)Wed Nov 4, 10 AM ET: on 3 front pages (3 right)Wed Nov 4, 11 AM ET: on 3 front pages (3 right)Wed Nov 4, 12 PM ET: on 4 front pages (3 right, 1 left)Wed Nov 4, 1 PM ET: on 5 front pages (3 right, 2 left)Wed Nov 4, 2 PM ET: on 5 front pages (3 right, 2 left)Wed Nov 4, 3 PM ET: on 5 front pages (3 right, 2 left)Wed Nov 4, 4 PM ET: on 6 front pages (3 right, 3 left)Wed Nov 4, 5 PM ET: on 6 front pages (3 right, 3 left)Wed Nov 4, 6 PM ET: on 6 front pages (3 right, 3 left)Wed Nov 4, 7 PM ET: on 6 front pages (3 right, 3 left)Wed Nov 4, 8 PM ET: on 6 front pages (3 right, 3 left)Wed Nov 4, 9 PM ET: on 6 front pages (3 right, 3 left)Wed Nov 4, 10 PM ET: on 6 front pages (3 right, 3 left)Wed Nov 4, 11 PM ET: on 6 front pages (3 right, 3 left)Thu Nov 5, 12 AM ET: on 6 front pages (3 right, 3 left)Thu Nov 5, 1 AM ET: on 6 front pages (3 right, 3 left)Thu Nov 5, 2 AM ET: on 6 front pages (3 right, 3 left)Thu Nov 5, 3 AM ET: on 6 front pages (3 right, 3 left)Thu Nov 5, 4 AM ET: on 6 front pages (3 right, 3 left)Thu Nov 5, 5 AM ET: on 6 front pages (3 right, 3 left)Thu Nov 5, 6 AM ET: on 6 front pages (3 right, 3 left)Thu Nov 5, 7 AM ET: on 6 front pages (3 right, 3 left)Thu Nov 5, 8 AM ET: on 6 front pages (3 right, 3 left)Thu Nov 5, 9 AM ET: on 6 front pages (3 right, 3 left)Thu Nov 5, 10 AM ET: on 6 front pages (3 right, 3 left)Thu Nov 5, 11 AM ET: on 6 front pages (3 right, 3 left)Thu Nov 5, 12 PM ET: on 6 front pages (3 right, 3 left)Thu Nov 5, 1 PM ET: on 6 front pages (3 right, 3 left)Thu Nov 5, 2 PM ET: on 6 front pages (3 right, 3 left)Thu Nov 5, 3 PM ET: on 6 front pages (3 right, 3 left)Thu Nov 5, 4 PM ET: on 6 front pages (3 right, 3 left)Thu Nov 5, 5 PM ET: on 6 front pages (3 right, 3 left)Thu Nov 5, 6 PM ET: on 6 front pages (3 right, 3 left)
Front pages carrying it each hour, by the outlets' lean, the side that had it first at the bottom:leftright. First: The Blaze, Wed 2:01 AM ET.
Nov 4, 6 PMNov 56 AM12 PM6 PMThe BlazeThe BlazeThe Blaze, Nov 4, 2:01 AM ET: Sen. Susan Collins falters after 5 terms in SenateTownhallTownhallTownhall, Nov 4, 2:01 AM ET: Susan Collins Couldn't Survive This Midterm CycleThe Daily CallerThe Daily CallerThe Daily Caller, Nov 4, 9:01 AM ET: Susan Collins Faces Bruising Defeat After Serving Since 1996VoxVoxVox, Nov 4, 12:01 PM ET: Three things that finally brought down Susan CollinsNew York MagazineNew York MagazineNew York Magazine, Nov 4, 1:01 PM ET: Susan Collins Was Doomed by Her ModerationThe GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, Nov 4, 4:01 PM ET: What the downfall of near three-decade senator Susan Collins says about Republican unpopularity
Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline, and a headline swapped for a new one between our hourly looks runs on to it. A gap means a look found the story gone from that front page. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📌 Linked by aggregators

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📡 Broadcast

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🎙️ On the shows

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🎙️🤷 No show matched to it yet.

🕵️ Investigated, joked about

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  1. 🃏 The Onion 1

🧶 Retelling

what people online made of it

🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

🗣️ Names in it

Susan CollinsRepublican PartySenate2026 midterm elections

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Maine Senate race

  1. Senator Susan Collins loses re-election bid (this story)

    Nov 5, 2 PM ET

  2. Democrat Troy Jackson defeats Susan Collins in Maine Senate race

    Nov 4, 1 AM ET

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