Democrats and Republicans are predictably split on the issue. Read More
Assistant Maine House Majority Leader Jared Golden is favored to beat U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin in a ranked-choice voting count that could decide the tight race in the 2nd Congressional District, according to exit polling conducted by the Bangor Daily News. Read More
Republicans in the Maine Senate on Thursday picked Sen. Dana Dow as the next minority leader. Read More
Ranked-choice counting will begin today in the race between U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin and Democrat Jared Golden. Here's how the process — and a possible recount — will work. Read More
Gov.-elect Janet Mills will need to craft a transition team with Democratic majorities to buoy her and the tight race for Maine's 2nd District is going to a ranked-choice count that could be legally perilous. Read More
It’s a mirror image of what the parties faced eight years ago, when Gov. Paul LePage and Republicans ousted Democrats from power. Read More
Attorney General Janet Mills was poised to become the state’s first female governor after Tuesday’s election, giving Democrats their first electoral victory for a statewide office since 2006. Read More
King, 74, of Brunswick was heavily favored to win against state Sen. Eric Brakey, R-Auburn, and Democrat Zak Ringelstein of Yarmouth. Read More
A challenge motivated by ranked-choice voting was little match for U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree of Maine’s 1st District on Tuesday, as the Democrat claimed victory while appearing to coast to a sixth term over two rightward challengers. Read More
Maine's 2nd District could be a national fulcrum over control of the U.S. House of Representatives, while we're not sure where the governor's race is headed going into Election Day. Read More
Most of the races that could decide control of the Maine Legislature fall into three main categories. Here's how they could play out on Election Day. Read More
The contest in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District is one of the key battleground races in the country and on the overcast Friday afternoon before Election Day, the battleground was the parking lot of a paper mill as workers changed shifts. Read More
In the last debate of the 2018 Maine gubernatorial race, Democrat Janet Mills looked to sow doubt among women with Republican Shawn Moody, while he asked her to apologize for an attack ad, and independent Terry Hayes defended her often-reproached run. Read More
The gubernatorial debates have been largely amiable so far. That could change in the final debate tonight as the party candidates and their allies hammer each other on the airwaves. Read More
Democrats have long outspent Republicans in Maine legislative races, but this year is different in the uncertain battle for control of the chambers. Read More
A new Republican ad wrongly connects a Maine referendum with Social Security benefits, while Democrats' "gutting" rhetoric on Social Security goes too far. Read More
The most recent public poll showed Caron with less than 5 percent of the vote, badly trailing Mills and Republican businessman Shawn Moody. Read More
The second-to-last gubernatorial debate was another tepid one, but the field could shrink by one today. Read More
The Democratic challenger and his allies are outspending the Republican incumbent. Modeling shows the race tilting away from Poliquin, but he still has a solid chance of winning. Read More
Ranked-choice voting will be used in Maine’s 2018 congressional elections, but not in the race to replace Gov. Paul LePage, whose plurality elections spurred the 2016 referendum to institute the electoral method. Read More
