LOL, this isnt the ME I know. The southern tier is a commie mecca. What are you going to do w/ them? Then there’s the big unions and the trough feeders who think they can do no wrong....which is most of the rest of the state. Perhaps its ‘peaceful’ b/c the people living there havent yet had an excuse to kill each other.
My reaction also to the post. Maybe it's because there's high gun ownership and we haven't yet reached critical mass in the urban diverse utopias of Portland and Lewiston.
Do not fall into the trap of judging the entire state by the Portland Press herald and the candidates the two parties put up. Look instead at the Rural crime stats, look at the rural demographic breakdowns, look instead at the history of Maine, how it became a state, the reasons for it seceding from Mass, don’t be like so many who judge a book by it’s cover.