Posted on 06/06/2010 3:42:26 AM PDT by DeusExMachina05
http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/145161.html
Will the tea party movement influence elections in Maine?
Yes
No
These are considered "Republicans" in Maine.
By the way, had Olympia Snowe cast a "No" vote in Committee, ObamaCare never would have even made it to the Senate floor for a vote. But, she voted "Yes" to advance the confiscation of our health insurance.
After she did that, she weaseled out of it, and voted "No" on the bill on the floor so she could say she opposed it.
Nice, huh?
Most conservatives up here aren’t fond of the sisters. Most of the liberals up here just want to be left alone and a lot of them are waking up to the fact that big government chokes them to death. You don’t have a lot of conservatives up here to fight what the left puts out there as alternatives.
They ALWAYS stray when there is a tight vote for the Dems, the rest is just for show.
SNOW’S VOTE IS USUALLY BOUGHT. COLLINS, WELL, JUST ISN’T THAT BRIGHT!
The liberals hope not.
Maine is , most likely, a lost cause. Too bad, the people are nice but just plain dumb....
Thanks for the perspective, I am not close enough to sense those things.
Well, to be fair, the Bangor Daily News is considered to be a "newspaper" here, too. The sloth-like Maine Republican party would give Republicans everywhere a bad name if it weren't completely ineffectual.
Republican Gubernatorial candidate, Les Otten (formerly CEO of American Skiing, part owner of the Boston Red Sox, and generally a no bull$h!t king of guy)asks the question on one of his campaign mailers:
“Are you TEA’d off yet?”
Done..
Yes...421 votes (71%)
No....174 votes (29%)
Why should I freep this poll? I know nothing about Maine politics.
If the poll question were,”do you want the Tea Party (amorphous thing that it is) to persuade the Maine electorate to shift to the right?” then freeping might make sense.
I called it out on Oct 14, 2009
BDN better known as Pravda on the Penobscot.
Otten is currently running TV ads talking about how his dad knew Hitler, or something like that.
Otten has so much money, and so little to say that he has to run tv ads discussing Hitler and a different ad complaining about ads that no one saw.
LePage is the true conservative, the tea party candidate. LePage got most of the tea party endorsements.
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