Last Thursday I reported that there was a pending lawsuit against both Les Otten’s campaign manager Edie Smith and the fall guy for his plagiarism scandal, Will Gardner. Interestingly, the suit had remained pending for a year, and as the … Continue reading
The primaries are almost here. We’ve made our predictions on which Democrat could take the nomination. We cited Pat McGowan’s centrist appeal and Steve Rowe’s military service as strengths for both candidates. Appropriately leveraged, they could mean the difference between … Continue reading
Pine Tree Politics analyzed each GOP gubernatorial candidate’s chances of winning their party’s nomination. Matt Gagnon explored possible victory scenarios for the candidates as well as the likelihood of them occurring. In conjunction with Bruce Bourgoine of Dirigo Blue, we … Continue reading
I’ve been kind of hard on Les Otten over, well, pretty much his entire time in the race. I will, of course, continue to be equally as hard on him in the future, but thanks to the efforts of friend … Continue reading
Thanks to Matt for giving me a chance to plug MPA’s straw poll. The results of PTP’s own recent online survey of the Republican race can be found here. The Maine People’s Alliance is conducting a text message based poll … Continue reading
The polls are closed and we have a winner. Much like our last poll, this was a contest between Steve Abbott and Paul LePage from the very beginning. In the end, Abbott was able to mobilize a good late push, … Continue reading
I have been on the trail of this for about two weeks now, and I’m not done uncovering facts. However, at this time I feel I have enough to report on this and at least begin to paint the most … Continue reading
A common theme within Maine Republican Politics is the desire to pick the candidate most like the Democrat candidate in order have the best chance to win in a general election in Maine. While this may be true in our … Continue reading
Welcome to Pine Tree Politics’ third GOP poll of the gubernatorial season. We have been be conducting these polls semi-regularly in the past months, so we can track movement and changes in support as time goes by. This poll will … Continue reading
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