I don’t get Maine. From what I’ve heard, you folks are hard-nosed, live in rural areas. Yet you folks vote as if you lived in Los Angeles. What’s up with your politics?
“I don’t get Maine.”
I grew up on Long Island, NY. I lived in California for about 17 years, back when it was great. I’ve lived in Maine for the last twenty years. I vote a straight Republican ticket.
The northern half of Maine has a lot of poverty, so those folks vote for the politicians who promise them the most government programs, sorry to say. So even though Obama got 57 per cent of the vote in a state that’s 98 per cent white, those voters still have a boat load of firearms in their homes, especially in rural areas.
We have a lot of liberals who moved here from Massachusetts, too. Southern Maine has the bulk of Maine’s population, and there are plenty of transplants from Massachusetts and other liberal states.
On a bright note, in 2010 Maine elected a TEA Party guy, Paul LePage, as governor. It was rural northern Maine that put him over the top. The Maine Senate and Maine House went GOP in 2010, for the first time in 50 years. Unfortunately, the dems outspent the GOP this past election cycle, and on November 6th, the dems re-took the Maine Senate and the Maine House.
So, to answer your question, there are lots of poor people in the rural areas who favor big government programs, and plenty of transplanted liberals with money. That’s the problem with this state. I wish I lived in Texas!