47% is a number the republicans should retire from their repertoire. if you re going to make up a statistic, pick 48 or 46, but he picked 47. it s totally not true, but totally typical for the amazing paul le page. he has been governor for just under three years. he s been seen as a part of the tea party wave that swept the country that year. he has tea party support. but his victory was more complicated than that. in 2010, on election night, the main governor s race was so close that year, and the race was so crowded that year that it couldn t be called on election night. ultimately the man who got elected that night, paul le page got the seat, even though he only got 38% of the vote.
whoa, easy, tiger. the senator who the times described today as, quote, drawn and clearly shaken by the plagerism charges, said that his office had made mistakes, then there was the senator s explanation for why this whole plagerism thing has happened. and this may in fact be the real explanation, but this is the kind of explanation that the senator is going to have a really, really hard time ever living down, if he ever does intend to run for president. mr. paul attributed some soft slopiness to being a senator in high demand. he says thing are done quickly and in a hurry and sometimes i get some things that are we write something every week for the washington times and i literally am riding around in a car in between things trying to figure out if i can approve it. we need to get stuff earlier, but it s hard, paul said, we probably take on more than we should be doing. if you can t handle the workload
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. that was all true before this happened. saying he wanted to put an end to what he called a whisper campaign, congressman mike michaud came out. he came out as gay after a public lifetime in the closet. including six terms in congress. should he manage to win this race against paul le page, democrat mike michaud would be the first openly gay governor in the united states since 2004. he is hoping to make a lot more history. this is his first national interview since coming out the
he made headlines for saying nearly half the able-bodied people in maine do not work. he said 47%. 47% is a number the republicans should retire from their represent twaur. if you re going to make up a statistic, pick 48 or 46, but he picked 47. it s totally not true, but totally typical for the amazing paul le page. he has been governor for just under three years. he s been seen as a part of the tea party wave that swept the country that year. he has tea party support. but his victory was more complicated than that. in 2010, on election night, the main governor s race was so close that year, and the race was so crowded that year that it couldn t be called on election night. ultimately the man who got elected that night, paul le page
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 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.