Posted on 08/26/2012 3:58:26 PM PDT by Kolath
Everyone pretty much wrote off Maine when former Governor Angus King announced he would run as an independent for the seat vacated by Olympia Snowe. Everyone understood that King’s independence notwithstanding, he would caucus with Democrats.
King was far ahead in the polls, and then a funny thing happened. A Club for Growth related group ran some ads actually pointing out King’s record, and his numbers tanked. Via Marc Thiesen in WaPo (h/t Charles):
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Sounds hopeful.
In 1820 an agreement called the Missouri Compromise was reached. The compromise allowed Missouri to come into the Union as a slave state and Maine would be a free state. http://www.mce.k12tn.net/civil_war/compromise_of_1850.htm ~ different day, same old same old.
maine is odd, cross between ice fisherman and pot smokers.
No we cannot. However, the lastest poll showed the rat candidate with about 7% of the vote.
LMAO!...Being from Maine, it’s obvious you’ve visited North and East of Bangor at 1 time or another, but not for long........Metrosexuals and wannabes never last long up here....*W*
Maine is odd.
There, I fixed it for you.
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