One of the Senate’s last moderate Republicans announces she won’t seek reelection. Colin Woodard on what’s driving Olympia Snowe out. Plus, the latest news on hot races around the country.
Colin Woodard, a Maine-based journalist, is the author of American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America.
Romney edges past Ron Paul by less than 200 votes. By Colin Woodard.
Just 100 days into Gov. Paul LePage’s Tea Party-fueled administration, his fellow Republicans are fighting back, defeating his push to bring back toxic baby bottles. Now Maine faces a choice between the Republicanism of moderate Olympia Snowe or the more bellicose LePage, reports Colin Woodard.
On the eve of Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, Maine’s newly elected governor, Paul LePage, triggered outrage in Maine with his harsh message for the NAACP.
The world’s top pop star marshaled her followers today at a Maine rally against “Don’t Ask, Don’t tell.” But her unconventional approach—likening gay rights to prime ribs and a “meat dress”—will have to persuade the state’s Republican senators to break from their party.