Last week, the Democratic operative world erupted over revelations that Graham Platner—the 41-year-old oysterman and Democratic Maine Senate hopeful—had not only made racist and misogynistic comments on Reddit but also sported a tattoo associated with… the Nazis. Platner, a veteran who did three tours in Iraq, got ahead of the news with a friendly appearance on Pod Save America, in which he said that he’d drunkenly gotten the tattoo while on leave in Croatia and had no idea about the affiliation. Nevertheless, the timing was explosive: Two days later, the University of New Hampshire released a poll, conducted pre-tattoo-gate, showing Platner 34 points ahead of his opponent, the establishment-tested, Chuck Schumer–backed state governor, Janet Mills.