The Democratic U.S. Senate candidate donated $250,000 to Full Plates Full Potential and $100,000 to Keep ME Warm.
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Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Jim Fossel: Money fails to win Gideon a Senate seat in Maine
Tuesday shows, once again, that voters favor moderates with strong ties to the state and an identity outside of their party affiliation.
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Posted inElection 2020, Local & State
Collins-Gideon contest second most expensive Senate race in U.S.
Their campaigns spent record sums trying to win over Maine voters and were matched along the way by out-of-state groups that dumped another $100 million into the race.
Posted inBill Nemitz, Local & State, News, Op-eds, Opinion, Uncategorized
Bill Nemitz: The ‘County girl’ versus the woman ‘from away’
To our detriment, birthplace played a powerful role in Maine’s U.S. Senate race.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
The Maine Millennial: Re-election numbers have lessons for Susan Collins
She should take to heart the fact that 49% of the votes cast Tuesday were for someone else and become a true moderate.
Posted inGreg Kesich, Op-eds, Opinion
The View From Here: Maine Democrats will start soul searching
The election offers no clarity in the battle between moderates and progressives for the party’s soul.
Posted inLocal & State, News, Politics, Uncategorized
The ‘two Maines’ disagreed again, but Trump’s support declined in both
The biggest split between Maine’s congressional districts was in the U.S. Senate race.
Posted inBill Nemitz, Op-eds, Opinion
Bill Nemitz: ‘Bill Green’s Maine’ just took on a whole new meaning
The retired TV personality played a critical role in vaulting Sen. Susan Collins to her fifth term.
Posted inElection 2020, Elections, Local & State, News, Politics
Susan Collins wins 5th Senate term as Sara Gideon concedes
Collins won the election not only by capturing clear majorities in hundreds of Maine’s more conservative, rural communities, but she also appeared to eat into Gideon’s margins of victory in traditional Democratic strongholds.
Posted inElection 2020, Elections, Local & State, News, Politics
Collins holds edge over Gideon in closely watched Senate race
It was unclear early Wednesday whether Republican Sen. Susan Collins would maintain enough of a lead to avoid a ranked-choice run-off in a race with national implications.