2016 Postmortem

There is a segment of rural Maine Republicans who have been convinced that people who get state assistance are all pill popping methadone taking leeches who have dozens of kids, collect massive amounts of welfare and sit around drinking Allen's coffee brandy all day long. Oh and they go buy many cases of bottled water, dump it out and return the bottles for 5 cents each so they can buy cigarettes and booze.

There aren't enough jobs to go around so a lot of people need help. Those fortunate enough to have jobs (some of them) have been taught to hold those who don't in contempt for "taking their tax dollars." Those are the LePage fans...they are mostly just dumb or old and cranky. That only makes up for about 25% of the voters. Some just don't pay much attention or vote for the least polished one. LePage is like the idiot drunk uncle you are embarrassed to be related to. He's just plain dumb...I mean REALLY dumb. He thought BPA would cause women to grow little beards if they eat from containers microwaved that have the substance in it. He went on a drunken threatening tirade on a voicemail. He's a blowhard. He's like Twitter Trump.

I did not know or associate with a single person who voted for or liked LePage even when I lived there. It's very common knowledge that the reason he won was due to the 3 way split. I'd like to see Stephen King run. He lives there and has a home in Bangor. He does a great deal for the community and I think he'd easily win.