Tea Party Candidate Wins Maine's Republican Gubernatorial Primary

Associated Press ^ | 06/08/2010 | GLENN ADAMS

[Shqipo]

This is a candidate I will back strongly. An admirable struggle to the top.

[Theodore R.]

People in ME have had an unbounded thirst for big government for many years. Even Margaret Chase Smith was on the “big government” team. It will take a real departure from the norm in ME for Mr. LePage to win. People there really believe that government is there to “help them.”

[annalex]

Maine turned liberal in the 80’s, when sharp divisions emerged between rural North and suburban South. The factora were massive immigration from Massachusetts (So. Maine is a commutable distance to the high-tech cluster north of Boston) and retreat of the paper companies in the North. Then-senator George Mitchell engineered the upset using labor sentiments in the North, liberal infection in the South, and his political clout.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"The factora were massive immigration from Massachusetts"

Sounds like similar problems they're having in New Hampshire. They should all move to Vermont. More like minded..

[annalex]

Blame I-95.