misleading headline
on a day when both US Congressional districts went for the ‘Rat it’s not exactly accurate to say “Maine goes red” (unless we start referring to the Demagogues with the color red, which would be just fine with me)
“Maine goes red”
The state of Maine now has a state senate, state house and governorship run by the GOP. Have not had that since 1962 hence ‘ Maine goes Red ‘.
I’m in Maine....the state did, in fact go red....but not on the federal level.
The new governor, GOP TEA party candidate Paul LaPage, received two votes for every one vote the democrat moonbat, Libby Mitchell received. He beat her 2 to 1. His main competition was Eliot Cutler, an “idependent” but life long dem. 95% of the vote has been counted so far....most of us use paper ballots. Of 520,000 votes cast, LePage won by 7,500 votes.
The Maine State House....similar to the California assembly.... won a small GOP majority last night for the first time since 1974. The Maine Senate was also won by the GOP.
Our two federal house districts remain in dim hands....the GOP challenger in the 1st Congressional district was leading by 4 points....he lost to a moonbat by 14 points. So much for polls.
Snowe and Collins supported LePage for governor.....sometimes, those two are on the right side.