Debates for Maine’s three federal races kick off this week, starting with a series of face-offs for the two candidates vying to represent Maine’s 2nd Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives.

On Tuesday, Nov. 5, Maine voters will elect a new Legislature. We sent a questionnaire to each candidate who is running for Senate and House of Representatives in our readership area. Their responses will be available at centralmaine.com as they are received.

Democratic nominee Golden ultimately won under ranked-choice voting. Many liberals who voted for the independent candidates ranked him second. As a result, this was the first time a Maine incumbent lost in over 100 years - demonstrating the rank-choice voting proponents’ claim that the system makes elections more competitive.

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Election Day is now less than six weeks away, and there seems to be a surge in voter interest. According to numbers released by the Maine Secretary of State’s Office on Tuesday, 11,239 people registered to vote in the two weeks between Sept.

Joe Mailey, who is in his 11th year working for Bath Iron Works, remembers when Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Golden walked the picket line with him and his coworkers during a 2020 strike. “It’s easy for politicians to say the right thing — Jared does the right thing,

On Tuesday, Nov. 5, Maine voters will elect a new Legislature. We sent a questionnaire to each candidate who is running for Senate and House of Representatives in our readership area. Their responses will be available at centralmaine.com as they are received.

Rep. Jared Golden may be the heir apparent to West Virginia’s Joe Manchin in trying to claw Democrats away from the left on issues like energy and the

One September day in 1840 the proud, independent-minded people of Maine woke up to find that they had changed their political complexion overnight. The Whig candidate for governor, Edward

The surge in campaign donations in Maine and across the country reflects renewed enthusiasm among Democratic donors for Vice President Kamala Harris' candidacy, but it by no means guarantees victory in November.

The book is filled with campaign axioms from Potholm (“Your friends will do you more harm than your enemies—if you let them”) and observations from political consultants who recall their hits and misses. If enough time has gone by, they can find humor in even their most lopsided defeats.