I think that the Obama administration/regime is resulting in a lot of 10th amendment thinking by the states. We’re seeing it with ObamaCare, immigration, etc. LePage is a strong advocate of states rights and that will have a bigger effect (or at least strong countering effect) to the twisted sisters.
I’m not sure exactly what you mean, but I definitely agree that LePage is a good Constitutionalist / 10th A / States Rights guy.
What I was saying before was that people outside of Maine might not be as interested in the outcome because the outcome doesn’t effect people outside of Maine, except as it brings a strong potential challenger to Snowe / Collins much closer to filling out his credentials. Snowe and Collins effect the laws of everyone. The Maine Gov’s race is interesting intrinsically, but it’s a bit confusing to explain. How can you really write a story explaining all the strands of this? 7 Republicans, 4 of whom have a reasonable chance to get the nomination. No polling data.
The storyline of this election at least in the primaries is tea party vs RINO. Unless something completely unexpected happens, like one of the candidates blowing out the others, you can’t really draw any conclusions. Or, you can draw any conclusion you want. If LePage gets 35% and wins, what do you say? How about if LePage gets 35% and loses? Do you say the same thing? I’m in Maine now, but I’ve never followed a race as closely as this in Maine and I can’t really make any prediction at all, and the election is 12 days away. If LePage wins it’s Tea Party candidate wins. Abbott wins it’s establishment candidate wins. Mills is RINO wins (but they could say establishment wins). Otten is Otten buys election. But that’s easy, how do you go further than that? There were all these candidates and no one had a clue for sure who was popular who wasn’t. People are talking about “electability”, “ideology”, how to balance the two, no one knows which candidate is taking support from other candidates.
I just started paying attention to the Delaware Senate race, which could be interesting. O’Donnell - Sarah Palin of the East - vs Castle - one of the hugest RINOs. Schiff v McMahon in Ct. could also be interesting.