Unite [Amicus section] election

[Kevinstat]

Where were Hicks and Reuter on the spectrum.  Were they both far-left candidates?  Faircloth must have been the one who withdrew and endorsed Simpson.  If "progressive" (liberal) Democrat and former State Senator Sean Faircloth in Maine (who subsequently was elected to the State House and ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic caucus's nomination for state Attorney General last year (the AG, Secretary of State, Treasurer of State and State Auditor are elected by joint ballot of the Legislature, and former Democratic Leigslators are almost always elected to fill those positions; three outgoing Democratic State Representatives ran for the open AG seat last year, as the then-incumbent AG, a former State House Speaker who's pretty much announced he's running for Governor next year, was termed out)), ... if Maine's Faircloth had withdrawn and endorsed fellow liberal Democrat Susan Longley in the 2002 Democratic primary, Mike Michaud would probably never have been elected to Congress.  I'm a pro-Life Democrat myself and like Michaud okay (although I live in the other congressional district), but he definitely owed his nomination to the progressive/liberal vote being split and also likely benefited from vote-splitting on the Republican side that helped the less party-unifyinig moderate win a very narrow primary (there was a partial recount before the second-place candidate conceded).