Maine

old man 76

(228 posts) Mon Aug 29, 2016, 05:18 PM Aug 2016

I want to share an embarrassing moment.

With Labor Day weekend approaching, we have a lot of summer tourists. I was working at a Community Dinner and a nice out-of-state lady said "I cannot believe what I heard on the news about your Governor." She continued to express her sadness for the people of Maine. A man, who I assume was probably her husband, walked up and said "How can you be sad for the people, they were the idiots that elected him twice." Now, the man had a point. It was a majority of the citizens of Maine that elected him twice. I could not come up with any response so I just kept my mouth shut and disappeared into the crowd.

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I want to share an embarrassing moment. (Original Post) old man 76 Aug 2016 OP

They Would Elect Him Again. TheMastersNemesis Aug 2016 #1

You did the right thing, elleng Aug 2016 #2

I totally feel your pain. Try being born and raised in Texas! Dustlawyer Aug 2016 #3

We did the same thing in NJ Cornus Aug 2016 #4

Wasn't he elected in a 3 way race with a liberal indie spoiler? Warpy Aug 2016 #5

"It was a majority of the citizens of Maine that elected him twice." chollybocker Aug 2016 #6

well did YOU vote for him? Skittles Aug 2016 #7

Never old man 76 Aug 2016 #8

well tell them you did not vote for that POS Skittles Aug 2016 #9

ditto in wisconsin jodymarie aimee Aug 2016 #10

TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)

1. They Would Elect Him Again.

Reply to old man 76 (Original post)

Mon Aug 29, 2016, 05:20 PM

Aug 2016

elleng

(136,843 posts)

2. You did the right thing,

Reply to old man 76 (Original post)

Mon Aug 29, 2016, 05:21 PM

Aug 2016

and you know that MANY of us are wondering the same thing, about Mainers and too damn many other states!

Dustlawyer

(10,518 posts)

3. I totally feel your pain. Try being born and raised in Texas!

Reply to old man 76 (Original post)

Mon Aug 29, 2016, 05:29 PM

Aug 2016

We have a couple of hundred politicians here worse than your governor and they are still held in high regard. Crap, we have Louie Gohmert and Terrible Ted Cruz, plus totally insane Dan Patrick (just Google him) and Greg Abbott. Our Attorney General is under indictment, but only because he tried to fleece other rich Republicans in the state!

Cornus

(871 posts)

4. We did the same thing in NJ

Reply to old man 76 (Original post)

Mon Aug 29, 2016, 05:29 PM

Aug 2016

I certainly did not vote for CC, but enough did that we're stuck with him for the full eight years. Go figure...

Warpy

(113,131 posts)

5. Wasn't he elected in a 3 way race with a liberal indie spoiler?

Reply to old man 76 (Original post)

Mon Aug 29, 2016, 05:30 PM

Aug 2016

I know there were 7 on the ballot for his first race and he "won" with 37% of the vote. A clear majority didn't elect that doofus, he just benefited from a complicated ballot and idealism that had a lot of Mainiacs convinced they could safely vote for a splinter party.

Maybe it's taken 2 terms of that oaf to convince enough of them that they'd better switch to realpolitik mode and take what they can get from the opposing major party.

chollybocker

(3,687 posts)

6. "It was a majority of the citizens of Maine that elected him twice."

Reply to old man 76 (Original post)

Mon Aug 29, 2016, 05:32 PM

Aug 2016

That statement is incorrect.

2010: In a 5-Candidate election: Lepage received 37.6% of popular vote.

2014: In a 3-Candidate election: Lepage received 48.2% of popular vote.

The distinction is an important part of the story.