Unexpected could still hurt King, but current factors favor an independent
Independent Angus King, running for the U.S. Senate, could benefit from the special circumstances that sometimes work for non-party candidates in Maine. In recent decades, the state has elected two...
View ArticleSecretaries of state fashion new, activist roles
A number of activist secretaries of state are dramatically changing a once non-partisan job that involves supervising elections. Some have supported partisan legislation. Some have endorsed or advised...
View ArticleSummers’ jobs program fails to live up to his claims of success
Republican Charlie Summers has pinned his campaign for the U. S. Senate on a vow to improve the economy and create jobs on a national level the way he says he has on the state level. As Maine’s...
View ArticleCharlie Summers interview with the Center
The Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting’s Naomi Schalit and John Christie interviewed U.S. Senate candidate Charlie Summers on Friday, August 17. With him was Jay Martin, Maine’s Small Business...
View ArticleDill, Summers, King: Tough questions, candid interviews
The most important issues for voters in this election are jobs and the economy. As part of our series about the U.S. Senate race in Maine, “Setting the Record Straight,” the Center’s reporters have...
View ArticleCurveballs, naked emperors and BS: post-election reflections of a reporter
German philosopher Max Weber said, “Politics is the art of compromise.” And, Weber might have added: Elections are the art of exaggeration. We at the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting spent...
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