Rockefeller GOP
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« on: November 07, 2014, 06:46:17 PM » |
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Did we ever REALLY trend away on non-Presidential elections? We haven't had a Democratic Senator since the 1980s, and the number of registered Republicans and Democrats is more or less equal (with Independents outnumbering both). Until the national GOP drops the folksy rural crap (I know, ironic, as Maine is quite rural, but I'm referring more or less to Republicans targeting people with culturally conservative tenancies to the point that it alienates ... well, everyone else), Maine won't vote Republican in a Presidential election anytime soon. But a socially moderate GOP (long way to go on that hope) would likely pick up Maine (just as it had for decades before the Culture War fiasco).
But make no mistake: this is a moderate state, period.
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