3rd July 2015, 9:26 PM
(This post was last modified: 6th July 2015, 8:41 PM by A Black Falcon.)
Weltall Wrote:How did a guy like that ever get elected in Maine?I've said before how he won. The first time, in 2010, it was because of the Republican wave that year and a 3-way race with a popular independent; LePage won that year with less than 40% of the vote. In 2014, it was because of a combination of several things: there were three candidates again (the guy from 2010 ran AGAIN); Ebola fearmongering (that Ebola nurse? She was in Maine.); and lots of conservatives in District 2 (most of the state outside of the liberal south) voting against the bear-baiting referendum.
But, then again, I ask the same thing about Kentucky. How in the hell does a state with Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul as U.S. Senators also have a popular, two-term Democrat governor who succeeded (with barely a fight, even) in setting up a state version of the ACA?
Quote:Like, if I told you that I live in a town that actually has transgender anti-discrimination employment laws, would you think that town was in Kentucky?That is a bit surprising, but Kentucky as a whole is definitely conservative, even if its Democratic party has managed to hold on on a local level better than most other Southern states.