Opponents of both Questions 1, which legalizes marijuana for recreational use in Maine, and Question 2, which increasing taxes on the wealthy to fund K-12 education, formally submitted signatures yesterday to force statewide recounts of ballots cast on these initiatives. Under Maine law, the losing side of any race decided by less than 1.5% of […]
Here’s how 60 self-selected participants think Maine’s elections go today. This is a completely unscientific measure, but the pool doesn’t have the worst track record of predicting results in recent cycles, in fact it has sometime been more accurate than the public polling. Here are the average results from what this group of politically-interested individuals […]
My absolute favorite mailer of this election cycle (and perhaps my favorite of all time) has to be this piece sent by the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine PAC (as tweeted by Kennebec Journal/Morning Sentinel managing editor Scott Monroe): Interesting SAM PAC mailer in China House race: If you vote for guy, hungry wolves will eat […]
The old farm house on Main Street in Orono where my brother (who also happens to be my state representative) and my sister-in-law live has a rather fascinating political history. It is formerly the home of the late Charles “Chick” O’Leary, the colorful leader of Maine’s AFL-CIO and one of the state’s greatest champions for […]
Yes on 1, the campaign to legalize and regulate marijuana for recreational use in Maine, has launched their first TV ad. The ad features former Cumberland County Sheriff (and current state representative) Mark Dion, who asserts that reducing the time spent issuing marijuana citations will allow police officers to spend more time fighting “serious, violent […]
The Boston Globe/Colby College/Survey USA poll released earlier this week with Donald Trump winning by a 10-point margin in Maine’s Second Congressional District is probably a bit of an outlier, but it isn’t an impossible scenario. Other recent surveys have shown the race here close (much closer than in traditional top-tier swing states like Ohio […]
Over the past week, as Governor Paul LePage’s racist meltdown has continued and escalated, one man has done more than any other to defend the governor’s behavior and protect him from consequences for his actions: Republican House Leader Ken Fredette. I have no doubt that Fredette is in part reflecting the will and opinions of […]
Republican State Senator Roger Katz wrote an op-ed in the MaineToday newspapers over the weekend that is absolutely stunning. Not only did he publicly reject the presidential nominee of his party, but he didn’t pull a single punch in denouncing the worst aspects of Donald Trump and his campaign. Other Maine Republicans have previously attempted […]
Speaking to the delegates of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia yesterday, Maine State Representative Diane Russell celebrated the success of her resolution to bind superdelegates to state votes in future elections. “We are united, and fixing the super-delegate system is the path to making sure our party is the strongest party, not just this […]
Last week I wrote about how Maine’s media is handling serial lying by Gov. Paul LePage. That piece, which followed a fact-check of one of LePage’s town hall appearances (and which happened to be followed by a great piece of analysis by BDN reporters Chris Cousins and Mike Shepherd making some of the same points) […]
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