[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrIm3-v8nF4?rel=0] It’s a good bet that many who watched independent gubernatorial candidate Eliot Cutler’s press conference Wednesday will be perplexed by his remarks. The event was initially billed as something of a quasi-concession, although not a formal withdrawal. Both actions have real implications for Mainers who have already voted for Cutler. Then Cutler began […]
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Angus King: RGA ad boosting Cutler tries to ‘trick people’
U.S. Sen. Angus King endorsed independent gubernatorial candidate Eliot Cutler in August. Remember? No, well good news, the Republican Governors Association has arrived with a reminder. The spot has been blasted by Democrats as another attempt by Republicans to boost Cutler’s candidacy, which recent polls have shown is either stagnant or losing ground to Republican […]
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Psst, your neighbors vote. Will you?
With over $10.4 million spent on political advertisements telling Mainers who to vote for, who not to vote for and who can’t win, one would think voters are so bludgeoned that some will decide to stay home. This is a bad outcome for political parties, particularly Maine Democrats, who have been pumping up their voter […]
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Morning Briefing 10.20.14: Republicans boost Cutler; Hillary for Michaud; and debate finale
* Dividing the opposition vote has been tried here before. It’s happening again. The Maine Republican Party has begun spending money on mail advertising designed to boost independent gubernatorial candidate Eliot Cutler. The mail piece that hit Portland and other markets shows Cutler, Democratic candidate Mike Michaud and Republican Gov. Paul LePage on three issues that would […]
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No scripts, no ringers and carnations welcome at first Maine gubernatorial debate
The first debate in the 2014 race for governor is Wednesday. You may have heard about it. Given all the hullabaloo over the gubernatorial debates — who said what, who changed the seating — one may wonder if the whole shebang could get deep-sixed by something as trivial as the shape of a table. Additionally, could Wednesday’s Eggs and Issues event […]
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Maine Briefing 10.6.14: State rep scores touchdown, the politics of Verso & Gary Hart revisited
* Check out the above campaign handout for state Rep. Don Marean, R-Hollis. It’s not uncommon for candidates for the Maine Legislature to omit their party affiliation on campaign literature. The conventional wisdom is that Mainers care less about party and more about the person. Marean takes another approach altogether. Republican? Democrat? Who cares? Bonny Eagle […]
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Morning Briefing 9.29.14: The old, the new, the overlooked
A quick rundown of some political odds and ends … * Here’s a quick recap on the WGAN Morning Show from Sept. 23 about a story that seemed to encapsulate all the negative aspects of the gubernatorial race in a single piece. * Consumers of the Sunlight Foundation’s Political Party Time now have a local version, thanks to the Maine Center for Public […]
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Outside groups running wild in Maine governor’s race
(Use the slider bars to scroll up, down and left to right. Hovering over the green bars will show the amount spent by a particular political action committee. The spending is divided between two major categories, support and oppose.) Here we go. Again. A week ago we reported that the 2014 election is on pace […]
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Five things Mainers may not know about Bill Clinton
President Bill Clinton will be in Portland Tuesday night to deliver a speech at a rally for Democratic gubernatorial candidate U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud. It’s a safe bet that most Mainers know the man. But do you really know him? Here’s five things that might put his visit in context: 1. He makes a lot of money […]
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Republicans in key Maine legislative races buy air time
Update on 9/26: Sen. Langley says that the ad buy that posted with WABI is for his business, not his campaign and that he hasn’t made any advertisements for his candidacy as of yet. That may be true since the political file doesn’t show an amount for the order. However, the buy was posted in […]
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