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<snip>What a difference one election can make. Over the last four years, Republicans ruled Maine through control of its state Senate and governor, Paul LePage, who has described his style as Trump before there was Trump. Conflicts with the Democrat-controlled House and attorney general led to lawsuits flying nearly every month and, eventually, a government shutdown when there was no budget all amid LePages stream of provocative name-calling that garnered national headlines. But on Tuesday, in the greatest shift in partisan makeup of a state government in the United States this year, voters chose Democrat Janet Mills to replace a term-limited LePage and gave her party control of both chambers.<snip>
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/11/09/after-years-lepage-maine-went-very-blue-tuesday/5QhkH7mUFE2pcMoYKQocIN/story.html
Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)It is a great state. I'm glad I got to grow up here and now live here and raise my kids here. LePage sucked, but now we are moving on to better things. Most Mainers know when they are getting a shit deal.
I hope what has happened here in Maine spreads to other states... the Dem majorities, but also Ranked Choice Voting.
PJMcK
(22,037 posts)They saw what a disaster LePage et alia were and they threw the bums out.
Now let's see what happens in The Pine Tree State.
ETA: People from Maine are NOT called Mainiacs. They proved that with this election cycle.
ancianita
(36,058 posts)Hotler
(11,424 posts)Resist160
(18 posts)She is now in the same seat Senator Hedi Heitkamp was in, only Collins is a repug in a Dem state. You can beat she's not happy with her state's election results. Let's thank the people who made Maine Blue.
LakeArenal
(28,817 posts)sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)DFW
(54,387 posts)In the 1936 presidential election, that old saying lost its validity when FDR carried all states except Maine and Vermont, which went for Republican Alf Landon.
louis c
(8,652 posts)Ohio has been much more reliable. But the realignment is making no state a "must win". The trio of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan is all we need if we can hold the rest of Hilary's wins.