Rep. Jared Golden (D) and Senator Angus King (I) oppose the Maine SOS's decision?

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7. There is no "democrats" as a collective hive mind.

There are only individual Democrats that group together by opinion and desired course of action on a specific and very well defined issue or problem.

Bare plurals are evil. "Cats have four legs" would mean if my cat loses a leg in an accident it's a non-cat. As a generalization with exceptions, the example holds. But if I want to say based on my cats, "Cats are either black or gray" it would be utterly false overall but very true for my cats. Apart from eye color, a black-and-white photograph would do them complete justice.

What do democrats really believe?

Some just hate Trump and want him off the ballot at all costs--screw the law. They're mirrors of "Lock him up!"--some because they fear a Louis-Napoleon III who lost his attempt at a second term coming to power as a dictator (and missed becoming dictator after term 1 as L-N did but wants another chance at the golden ring); some because they just loathe him. Some follow the reasoning and accept it, either on its merits or on its conclusions. Others want him on the ballot because they're confident that Biden will win, hands down, or don't buy the reasoning, or think that overbroad reasoning might boomerang like making judges subject to simple majority vote did. That might account for 90% of them. Maybe fewer.