Maine 2nd CD
To return to a not-very-consequential pre-election dispute I had with Mike Crowley, it’s worth observing that John McCain was nowhere near winning Maine’s second congressional district. The only county he carried was Piscataquis, consistently the state’s most right-wing, but also one with barely any residents (Baxter State Park constitutes a huge proportion of its land area so it’s not just rural, a big part of it is genuinely empty) — there were a bit over 9,000 votes in the county this time, and McCain got 51 percent of them.
In the District’s main population center, Penobscot County, McCain got exactly his national average and the same was true of Waldo County. In Hancock, Aroostock, Franklin, and Oxford counties he did worse than average, and in Washington County he slightly outperformed. ME-2, in short, isn’t the bluest spot on the map, but it’s more liberal than most places.
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November 7th, 2008 at 9:04 am
Note that the second largest county in ME-2 is actually Androscoggin county, where Obama won 56-42.
November 7th, 2008 at 9:20 am
Piscataquis County was in fact the only county in New England McCain carried.
Its interesting that the two only states that use the assign-electors-to-CDs system are so small and homogenous that it doesn’t really matter. I think this is good, if gerrymandering could get worse we would see it get worse if this was a widespread practice.
November 7th, 2008 at 9:26 am
According to Tom Brokaw this county is very important because it’s such a large land area.
November 7th, 2008 at 9:29 am
Michael Crowley never tires of being wrong. He has all the political sense of Trig Palin.
November 7th, 2008 at 10:11 am
Can we lay off the Trig Palin jokes please? Mock his mother all you want — lord knows she deserves it — but nobody deserves to have his or her special needs kid mocked. To say nothing of other, less mockable parents with special needs kids. That stuff is cruel, gratuitous and all around despicable. Please leave the douchebaggery to the wingnuts.
November 7th, 2008 at 10:35 am
“Its interesting that the two only states that use the assign-electors-to-CDs system are so small and homogenous that it doesn’t really matter.”
You do realize Obama is actually going to win an electoral vote from Nebraska? That’s a very non-homogenous state the way the districts are divided.
November 7th, 2008 at 11:09 am
According to Tom Brokaw this county is very important because it’s such a large land area.
Dayum, who knew trees could vote?
November 7th, 2008 at 11:35 am
Maine was nothing but a pipe dream for McCain, those of us who live here did say that. Even the Bushes with their compound and vacations up here and slobbering local press hacks do not win the state in national elections.
November 7th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Aroostook.
November 7th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
I’m still trying to figure how Tom Allen loses in roughly the same % in ME-2 that Obama wins. You’d think people voting for change would give the new President a Senate to help the change along. Granted, Tom did run a crappy campaign for this district and he doesn’t come across as ‘one of us’….but he was right on the issues and I would think the results would have been substantially closer than they were.
BTW, my wife lost her State Rep race here….the district has never elected a Democrat but she came close to breaking that precedent.
November 7th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
The head of the Maine Democrat Party, john Knutson, used dirty tricsks to get independent Herb Hoffman knocked off the ballot. Perhaps this is the payback that God is giving the Allen campaign.
I think it is wonderful that that bastard Tom Allen lost. I hope John Knutson is fired and lives the rest of his life penniless and destitute.
November 7th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
(Note: Hoffman would have been runnig against Collins and Allen, which is why the Democrats’ dirty tricks against him are relevant to this race).
November 8th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
The thing about people from Maine is that they think for themselves and vote for who they think will serve them well. The party isn’t what matters there, it’s the candidate, the way it really should be all over this country.
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