ME Gov 2022: Lepage IN

[Sir Mohamed]

That's what we needed, another failed staunch right-winger and Trump enabler who doesn't realize when to give it a rest. Didn't the dude have one of the worst approval ratings through is tenure?

[I’m not Stu]

Did FPTP motivate LePage to run in 2022?

[Fuzzy Bear]

He can't win a 2 way race.  I'll give you this.

Mills is at 47-45 positive approval.  How popular will she be if she's perceived as unnecessarily tanking Maine's economy unnecessarily?  That option is far from a certainty at this point, but it's far from ridiculous as well.

[TiltsAreUnderrated]

FPTP may not be around for this race by 2022 if Democrats, independents and Republicans willing to back RCV have a supermajority in both chambers. They're not far off this right now and would only need to improve a little on 2018's numbers (a tall order in and of itself, but by no means impossible).

[Fuzzy Bear]

An IN could win Maine's Governorship.  It's happened before.  I don't know that LePage could win that way, even with Mills being unpopular.

If Mills turns out to be super-unpopular, the opposition will coalesce around one Republican, and not a LePage type.

[Skill and Chance]

I expect LePage to win unless 2022 is another 2006. 

[Lognog]

not exactly on topic, but why is Mills so unpopular and why didn't she win by too much in 2018

[Frodo]

not exactly on topic, but why is Mills so unpopular and why didn't she win by too much in 2018

An excellent question -I'm still waiting on a response to a similar question I asked earlier on this thread.

[brucejoel99]

not exactly on topic, but why is Mills so unpopular and why didn't she win by too much in 2018

She has a 60% approval rating & won in 2018 with (relatively speaking) more of the vote than any candidate since Angus King in 1998 & any non-incumbent candidate since Kenneth M. Curtis in 1966.

[MT Treasurer]

A Mills vs. LePage race is probably the only match-up which could come close to providing the same entertainment as a Whitney Williams vs. Greg Gianforte race, so I’m rooting it for just for the lulz. Inject the #populism into my veins.

[Lognog]

not exactly on topic, but why is Mills so unpopular and why didn't she win by too much in 2018

She has a 60% approval rating & won in 2018 with (relatively speaking) more of the vote than any candidate since Angus King in 1998 & any non-incumbent candidate since Kenneth M. Curtis in 1966.

I think 60% now is accurate but it was only in the forties's a few weeks ago. She did decently in 2018, but ran quite far behind King.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

Thanks for another dem victory lard@$$

[brucejoel99]

Thanks for another dem victory lard@$$

Really? He's literally won this position twice. Cockiness & overconfidence doesn't serve us well, especially if it's a Biden midterm.

[Sir Mohamed]

Thanks for another dem victory lard@$$

Really? He's literally won this position twice. Cockiness & overconfidence doesn't serve us well, especially if it's a Biden midterm.

I wouldn't be overconfident about Mills getting reelected over the dude, but it's important to note he never got a majority of the vote even in GOP waves, and his approvals as gov were horrible. It wouldn't be hard to believe a dude of 75 yrs running for a job again he was unpopular in gets rejected by voters.

ME is a strange state, though, as they elected liberal Dems, staunch right-wingers and moderates including an independent, all in recent years.

[I’m not Stu]

Which state will be the first to use RCV for gubernatorial elections?

[Hillary Biden]

Mills is toast her only hope is people voting for her because of a 6 year itch like Brownback. She should vote for Trump in November

[TiltsAreUnderrated]

Mills is toast her only hope is people voting for her because of a 6 year itch like Brownback. She should vote for Trump in November

She would get primaried if she did that, and the Democrats might be better off for it.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

ME has had that strange ME 2 that gives R a chance. That's why Collins can still win as well as LePage and why Gov race was close in 2018. Rs can still win in NE, Sununu and Phil Scott.

Sabato has made VT and NH Gov Safe R, Chris Sununu isnt John Sununu and has governed like a moderate

[kph14]

Which state will be the first to use RCV for gubernatorial elections?

Maine. It was in use in the 2018 primaries.

[free my dawg]

ME has had that strange ME 2 that gives R a chance. That's why Collins can still win as well as LePage and why Gov race was close in 2018. Rs can still win in NE, Sununu and Phil Scott.

Sabato has made VT and NH Gov Safe R, Chris Sununu isnt John Sununu and has governed like a moderate

Sununu really hasn't governed like a moderate, especially on voting rights issues. In fact, I'd argue that Sununu era NH has had the second-largest lapse in voting rights since Trump got elected. He also gave the Education Secretary post to a political crony to appease the party base. (Actually, his Chief Justice nominee just got rejected for being a similar political crony!)

Sununu has governed like a bog-standard Republican, really. He's just not offensive enough on key issues for voters to care, so the smiley moderate-types vote for him.

[I’m not Stu]

Which state will be the first to use RCV for gubernatorial elections?

Maine. It was in use in the 2018 primaries.

What will be the first state to use RCV for gubernatorial general elections?