2018 mid-term election

[varwoche]

I'd bet LePage supporters also voted for Trump. Are we sure Fred Trump didn't visit Maine in early 1948?

ETA: Good lord. This yahoo was voted governor not once, but twice?

I've never been to Maine. Somehow over the years, I gained the vague impression it wasn't crazyville. Fortunately I don't put too much stock in vague impressions.

 

[tyr_13]

How is LePage a 'firebrand'? Seems fairly representative of the GOP.

Most of the time we think of the conundrum of trying to balance majority rule with the need to respect the rights of the minority. The GOP has rectified this by disregarding minority rights AND majority rule.

They've been operating on 'evil genie logic' for a long time now. For other examples see pulling troops home and immigration reform.

 

[kookbreaker]

IIRC, the Maine Democrats split their party both times and LaPage ended up carrying the election hpwhen any single Democrat would have crushed him.

 

[W.D.Clinger]

IIRC, the Maine Democrats split their party both times and LaPage ended up carrying the election hpwhen any single Democrat would have crushed him.

Which is why Maine adopted ranked-choice voting:

Thanks to the election and reelection of controversial Republican Gov. Paul LePage with less than a majority of the vote, Maine is trying out a whole new method of voting on Tuesday.

Maine is the first state in the nation to use ranked-choice voting (also known as instant-runoff voting) in a statewide election. It’s largely seen as a rebuttal to LePage, who was elected in 2010 with less than 40 percent of the vote and reelected four years later with less than 50 percent.

 

[Stacyhs]

Whew! It's good to know that LePage got in without a majority of Mainers voting for him...but that's sad at the same time.

 

[aleCcowaN]

Which is why Maine adopted ranked-choice voting:

I once subverted that system by instructing "my people" about voting for our "candidates" (our projects, in that case) and ignoring all the other "candidates". That achieved a project of ours ranking third place instead of fourth -if we have voted as expected-. It suffices to say that only three projects got financing.

I later told the organizers to get it right from the beginning instead of promoting a "scientific" system and all of the blatant bartering that was going on ("if you vote for our project in second place we'll vote yours in second place") what motivated me to analyse the system and in turn also subvert it the way I described.

Has Maine's system some protective mechanism? I mean, "general pool vote" in case of empty option -a logistical nightmare and a source of potential fraud if not properly controlled-, and so on.

 

[aleCcowaN]

Next Wednesday Democratic politician Janet Mills will be assuming as governor of Maine, putting an end to 8 years of "lepageries" (which sounds in Spanish like "things proper of a jerk-off" said in a Catalan way)

 

[Foolmewunz]

Next Wednesday Democratic politician Janet Mills will be assuming as governor of Maine, putting an end to 8 years of "lepageries" (which sounds in Spanish like "things proper of a jerk-off" said in a Catalan way)

I'm sure there's an opening or two in the Cabinet coming up. Paul and Donnie belong together.

 

[aleCcowaN]

I'm sure there's an opening or two in the Cabinet coming up. Paul and Donnie belong together.

Certainly he belongs there, but in a "last cabinet, when impeachment succeeded" fashion, when people miss Betsy DeVos like today they're missing Jeff Sessions or, soon, Mike Pompeo, in such precise moment Lepage deserves to be appointed Secretary of Verborrhea or Secretary of International Drywalls Paid by Aliens.