FRYEBURG, Maine — Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Except this one has a bad temper.
Troy Jackson, the new Senate candidate from Maine, was born three years before The Who's Pete Townshend wrote a rock anthem that spoke of taking "a bow for the new revolution" and of the impulse to "smile and grin at the change all around." Its title was "Won't Get Fooled Again," and the riff about the new and old bosses has real meaning as Democrats gird for the task they have undertaken — and failed on — five earlier times: to keep Republican Susan Collins out of the Senate.
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