LePage And Jacobson On The Air
Posted on 01. Jun, 2010 by Matthew Gagnon.
LePage’s first television ad popped up on Thursday: And Matt Jacobson is on the air with this one as of today:
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The Tangled Web Of The Smith Family And Les Otten
Posted on 29. May, 2010 by Matthew Gagnon.
Last Thursday I reported that there was a pending lawsuit against both Les Otten’s campaign manager Edie Smith and the fall guy for his plagiarism scandal, Will Gardner. Interestingly, the suit had remained pending for a year, and as the story was relayed to me, Smith’s lawyers had been engaging in delaying tactics to ensure [...]
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McGowan and Rowe Continue Push
Posted on 26. May, 2010 by Derek Viger.
The primaries are almost here. We’ve made our predictions on which Democrat could take the nomination. We cited Pat McGowan’s centrist appeal and Steve Rowe’s military service as strengths for both candidates. Appropriately leveraged, they could mean the difference between moving on and heading home. It seems someone at each campaign office got the message.
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Reading the Dem Primary Tea Leaves
Posted on 25. May, 2010 by Derek Viger.
Pine Tree Politics analyzed each GOP gubernatorial candidate’s chances of winning their party’s nomination. Matt Gagnon explored possible victory scenarios for the candidates as well as the likelihood of them occurring. In conjunction with Bruce Bourgoine of Dirigo Blue, we have done the same. You may read Bruce’s scenarios here and mine below.
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And The Award For The Most Hilarious Entry In A Campaign Finance Report Goes To…
Posted on 24. May, 2010 by Matthew Gagnon.
I’ve been kind of hard on Les Otten over, well, pretty much his entire time in the race. I will, of course, continue to be equally as hard on him in the future, but thanks to the efforts of friend of Pine Tree Politics and candidate for House District 19 Zach Jackman, I would like [...]
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MPA Text Message Straw Poll
Posted on 24. May, 2010 by Matthew Gagnon.
Thanks to Matt for giving me a chance to plug MPA’s straw poll. The results of PTP’s own recent online survey of the Republican race can be found here. The Maine People’s Alliance is conducting a text message based poll the of the June 8 gubernatorial primaries as part of our campaign to promote civic [...]
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Steve Abbott Wins Final PTP Straw Poll
Posted on 24. May, 2010 by Matthew Gagnon.
The polls are closed and we have a winner. Much like our last poll, this was a contest between Steve Abbott and Paul LePage from the very beginning. In the end, Abbott was able to mobilize a good late push, and managed to eek out a win by a couple percentage points. Interesting, there was [...]
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All The Kings Men: Edie Smith, Will Gardner, And The Candidacy Of Les Otten
Posted on 20. May, 2010 by Matthew Gagnon.
I have been on the trail of this for about two weeks now, and I’m not done uncovering facts. However, at this time I feel I have enough to report on this and at least begin to paint the most general of pictures so that this can get “out there”. A lawsuit was filed in [...]
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Paul LePage Can Unite The Maine GOP To Win In November
Posted on 20. May, 2010 by Aaron Prill.
A common theme within Maine Republican Politics is the desire to pick the candidate most like the Democrat candidate in order have the best chance to win in a general election in Maine. While this may be true in our federal races with our esteemed Senators, this year’s Governor’s race has a completely different set [...]
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Republican Primary Poll #3 – Who Do You Support?
Posted on 20. May, 2010 by Matthew Gagnon.
Welcome to Pine Tree Politics’ third GOP poll of the gubernatorial season. We have been be conducting these polls semi-regularly in the past months, so we can track movement and changes in support as time goes by. This poll will be open from now, until midnight on Sunday May 23th. Results will be published Monday [...]
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- Republican Primary Poll #2 – Who Do You Support?
- Republican Primary Poll #3 – Who Do You Support?
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Bruce Poliquin Steps In A Hornet’s Nest On Guns
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Maine Republican Platform Becomes Political Football
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Two Maine Democrats Endorse Cutler
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Linda: I am glad that you are advocating for Magnet Schoo...
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john j bouchard: Steve- Is that the only thing you can say about M...
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Steve: LePage has finally found his winning strategy. Shu...
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Mike Turcotte: 90% of success is just showing up. Great campain ...