Posted on 11/05/2014 3:21:08 PM PST by ObamahatesPACoal
For years now, whenever someone would draw up a list of the most vulnerable incumbent governors in the country, Maine’s Paul LePage would be right near the top. Pugnacious, hot-headed, and occasionally vulgar, LePage was consistently underwater with his approval ratings, especially after he would make national headlines for telling the state chapter of the NAACP to kiss his butt or television viewers everywhere that a Democratic state senator always wanted to “give it to the people without Vaseline.”
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In the end, over 8 percent of voters cast ballots for Cutler, sealing Michaud’s fate.
But a third-party spoiler only got LePage part of the way back to Blaine House, the historic Maine governor’s mansion. After all, for most of his time in office, LePage’s job approval rating was in the mid-to-high thirties as his administration tangled first with the Republican legislative leaders (who refused to back his plan to roll all environmental laws back to weaker federal standards in 2010), then with Democratic ones (before whom the governor banned his commissioners from appearing). The governor had become a national joke, and many Mainers had come to regard him as an embarrassment.
It’s the other half of the answer to LePage’s reelection that helps explain the GOP’s remarkable success in races across the country: A disciplined campaign, a socially conservative and economic-focused message, and surprisingly strong rural turnout boosted by local issues.
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Jan Brewer is on McCain's re elect committe and endorsed Mayor Smith in the GOP primary.
Howie Carr said: "Talk up Elliot Cutler with your moonbat friends"
Crazy guv reelected by crazy voters.
“Crazy” like Ted Cruz, Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin, Mike Lee and Jim Inhofe, I presume?
The ebola nurse may have had something to do with it. Her attitude did not go over well in Ft. Kent, maybe all of Maine although she definitely had backers on message boards.
when you said “crazy” I thought “Moonbeam”, but then he’d allow Vaseline...
Thought this was going to be a story about Marx Dayton.
Maybe they think he’s French.....
Crazy gov...Jerry Brown? Oh its Politco so they reserve that name for Republicans!
only the Politico would call Lepage and not Jerry Brown the crazy governor...
LePage took the state except the far north/eastern lands where MicMac and Maliseet Indians live. He must have stepped on some moccasins.
He spoke French as a homeless teenager and turned his life around.
He joked to Howie Carr. The NAACP wanted me to visit prisons. But they would only let me talk to black inmates.
Howie retorted:”That means you wouldnt be able to talk to all your relatives in prison”.
French Canadian descent
I don't know this guy..........but I like his style.
I don't know this guy..........but I like his style.
I thought they were talking about Mark Dayton from Minnestoopid.
Could it be that people are just fed up with having to try to see behind the curtain and guess at what that politician stands for? Numerous Blacks respected George Wallace because there was no doubt precisely where he stood on the issues. Like Pages’ policies or not, there is not much doubt where he stands on an issue.
Never heard of Dayton but Brown I know is called Moonbeam for a reason.
“LePage took the state except the far north/eastern lands where MicMac and Maliseet Indians live. He must have stepped on some moccasins.”
Yor are wrong on this. He lost the cities of Portland, South Portland and Bangor and the near coast of Maine. Go one town in from the coast and everything is red. Have no ide where you get your info on two minor indian tribes who don’t even have reservations voting against him. The latest map I have seen shows white where results are not in yet. Don’t interpret that as areas he lost.
Good points! Lol
Me too!
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