perspective, i guess it is kind of a peas in the pod like we re tough talking eastern republican governors in blue states. but i mean, this guy is absolutely as politically toxic, paul le page as they come in the gubernatorial ranks right now. yeah. and they re kind of peas in the same pod of being nailed for having scandals and trying to go out against their political foes. so i think that s a bit of a problem. and politically, it makes me question, i don t know, do these people do any vetting of him? did they figure out he has this problem before they decided to take chris christie with bridgegate faced similar accusations? he is now getting an endorsement from a guy it is all very weird to me. this is a really important point. they re basically parallel in the sense of, in the case of paul lepage with threatening to revoke funding from the school unless a political rival had a
to help you realize a better tomorrow. from the families of aig, happy holidays. many republicans love to deny the existence of climate change. they do so at their own peril. they see a political opportunity. we are going to go to paul le page. he said the president doesn t like white people. among several and colorful comments. he had signs on the topic. everybody looking at the negative effects of global warming as he said on transportation. with the ice melting, the northern passages opened up. maybe instead of being at the end of a pipeline, i m going to stop talking about paul le page because we have breaking news
up in maine, paul le page has vetoed the expansion of the medicaid, but he s just recently come out and said, you know even though i vetoed it, there are ideas i would support. in arkansas, they came up with a deal to assuage republicans where instead of taking the medicaid money, they would change it so that the money would go to the private insurance. so individuals instead of being on medicaid would use funds for private insurance. now we are seeing a whole bunch of republicans sort of opened to that bobby jindal will not be one of them. i think we are seeing movement on this and over time as governors see this is a free pot of money if they want it, i think we re going to see more. arkansas issued an example, too, you have a state that voted overwhelmingly, on the other side of the break with ve a
popular six-term congressman named mike michaud. it shows him leading but not by much, only by four points. if it was a two-way race, the democrat would be leading by 15. but with the independent guy running, too, and a three-way race, the democrat lead shrinks to four. if it is not a two-way race and right now it s not it may very well be a different story a year from right now. three-way race is how maine got paul le page in the first place. the paul le page governorship is amazing enough as a spectacle. the contest to try replace him which launched tonight was a fascinating cannot look, cannot look away type of campaign.
because of that weird dynamic of that three-way race back in 2010. so now he s running for reelection. how about a replay of that exact same dynamic. the field includes republican paul le page, again, and that same moderate independent guy from last time who s running again. now, though, the democrat is a different candidate. the democrat this time is a popular six-term congressman named mike michaud. it shows him leading but not by much, only by four points. if it was a two-way race, the democrat would be leading by 15. but with the independent guy running, too, and a three-way race, the democrat lead thshrin to four. if it is not a two-way race