I’ve helped a lot of Mainers register to vote over the years and perhaps the most common mistake I’ve seen people make is accidentally joining the Green Party. They intend to register as an independent, but miss the “unenrolled” line at the bottom of that section of the card (or don’t understand what it means) […]
Gov. LePage’s end-run around the Constitution to keep Bill Beardsley in charge of the Department of Education without facing a confirmation hearing in the legislature would be a shocking move from any other governor, but here it’s just one in a long line of LePage’s ridiculous stunts. Only a few weeks ago, the governor had […]
I would imagine some of the hardest jobs in Gov. Paul LePage’s administration belong to the legal and communications staff who so often have to make excuses for his actions or, as was the case yesterday, claim they never occured. In a legal proceeding in U.S. District Court, the governor’s attorney, Patrick Strawbridge, argued that […]
Good on Maine’s senior senator, Susan Collins, for not just meeting with President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, but disagreeing publicly with Republican Senate leadership and urging her colleagues to hold hearings on his appointment. That said, let’s all take a moment to recognize how supremely ridiculous it is that Collins has garnered so […]
According to Pew Research, Maine is among the least religious states in the country. Only 34% of Mainers say religion is very important in their lives and just 22% attend weekly church services. More than half of Mainers say they don’t believe in God with absolute certainty. That doesn’t mean that religion doesn’t still play […]
The Critical Insights spring tracking survey released last week gives us our first look at the General Election presidential race in Maine. Although polls this far out are not necessarily predictive of final outcomes (a lot can happen in six months), they do provide an interesting snapshot of the current views of voters. The poll […]
Portland City Councilor Jon Hinck, who had previously served as a state representative and who ran for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in 2012, announced this morning that he had failed to deliver his nomination signatures to the Secretary of State’s office in time to have his name placed on the ballot for the […]
By my reading of the Maine Constitution, primary elections are not technically decided based on which candidate puts up the best video on Facebook. That’s good news for Rep. Barry Hobbins, because this one is far from compelling (unless he was trying to make some kind of hilarious techno-retro artistic statement, in which case he […]
In an interview with Christiane Amanpour on CNN yesterday, former Maine U.S. Senator and former U.S. Secretary of Defense Bill Cohen warned that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s foreign policy stances include advocacy for violating the international criminal code. “I think we have to be very careful on what we are saying to the world. […]
I made the joke/observation in the headline on Twitter this morning. I thought it was just an interesting way of bringing a local lens (Maine will be voting on a ranked-choice voting referendum this November) to the national issue of Donald Trump conquering the Republican Party. (Or should I say seizing it through eminent domain?) […]
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