The Maine Supreme Judicial Court will soon weigh in on whether lawmakers could expand ranked-choice voting to gubernatorial and State House races in the November general election.
I’m not a political strategist, and I am sure more informed people have their reasons — be it voter engagement or allocation of party resources — for the continued existence of primaries. But I wonder, with the exception of the race for governor, whether we can limit their implications. With the inception of ranked choice…
Sen. Susan Collins must go. Who should replace her: workhorse Janet Mills or show pony Graham Platner? Platner’s ahead in the polls. He’s a compelling campaigner. But he’s like Bernie Sanders: all talk, no action. In Sanders’ 35 years in Congress, he’s passed just three bills, two of which renamed post offices in Vermont. Sanders…
It is an unprecedented time in American history when, as a nation, we have witnessed President Donald Trump’s epic incompetence and corruption and an administration that has been abetted and absolved by the cowardice of a Republican Congress. Janet Mills told Donald Trump to his face at the White House, “See you in court!,” when…
The unusual nature of this race will bring national money and attention to Maine. Political analysts say the candidates are the perfect contrast in styles.
Maine voters have a new race to focus on — at least for now.
With Gov. Janet Mills out of the Democratic primary, an array of Maine Democrats came out Thursday and Friday in support of Platner’s bid to unseat U.S. Sen. Susan Collins.
At their first televised debate ahead of the June 9 primary, the 5 Democrats running to succeed Mills weighed in on her moves as governor.
Both the Republican senator and the Democratic candidate made appearances in southern Maine on Friday morning, a day after the governor ended her campaign.
Given her support for the SAVE America Act, it is becoming increasingly clear that Sen. Susan Collins believes she cannot win reelection without disenfranchising thousands of Maine voters. The good works she touts — like releasing $4.3 million for additional home heating aid and securing $65 million for rural infrastructure projects — are apparently not…
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