Poll puts Maine in Kerry Column

Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram ^ | Oct 24, 2004 | Paul Carrier

[dokmad]

Please help freep this Poll. Pressherald is a Liberal paper. Hope I posted the link properly.

[Flux Capacitor]

I've been hoping Bush will at least take the 2nd CD's electoral vote. Polls showed him up there not long ago. Anyone in the know?

-Dan

[dokmad]

www.pressherald.com should take you to the front page story and Poll.

[dokmad]

Looks like it will be split ev's. Northern Maine is more conservative.

[Thebaddog]

Don't waste any energy on Maine. RCP has had them blue for a month. It's Iowa in the red column that is most interesting to me.

[nathanbedford]

There are several scenarios under which Bush could eke out a tie or a win with Maine's lone vote on a split ticket.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Bear baiting? How Elizabethan . . .

[chalkman]

click here to see the real clear politics map.

[DustyMoment]

Poll puts Maine in Kerry Column

And, this is a surprise to whom?

[Thebaddog]

I'm thinking that if Bush can take Iowa which is a liberal state, he has more wins coming in states that he didn't win in 2000. My hunch is that the race won't be close enough to need a swing state like Maine which can't be counted on all that much.

[SheLion]

Looks like it will be split ev's. Northern Maine is more conservative.

I live in northern Maine and I have voted already.

[cynicom]

I say, bring over the rest of Somalia and dump them in Maine. They deserve each other.

[cynicom]

It must get lonely, being only conservative in Maine.

[who knows what evil?]

The REAL Maine is north and east of the Kennebec River. Those areas to the south and west of the Kennebec are just a suburb of Boston...kind of like Vermont.

[Vision]

Bear baiting? How Elizabethan

How do you propose to keep bear numbers in check without using bait? Spot and stalk?

[230FMJ]

There are actually several of us conservatives in Maine, but the Portland Press Herald and the Bangor Daily News would have you believe othewrwise.

[cynicom]

Glad to see that SheLion is in fact not alone. Do you all have to meet in secret at night, is there a bounty on conservatives?????

[NaughtiusMaximus]

That was a joke, dude. I have this mental picture of a bunch of guys in lumber jackets with ruff collars and pointy shoes. (A popular sport in Shakespeare's time was to put a bear in a pit and set dogs on him . . . bear baiting.) If you really want to know how to bait a bear (modern times), get a small propane bottle, put on a burner tip, take it to the head of a valley where your animal is, crack it slightly and let the fumes drift downwind. (Note: if the game wardens catch you pulling this stunt they will put you in a pit and set dogs on you.)

[Vision]

It doesn't read as a joke