MAINE EVENT: VOTE SPLIT COULD TIP ELECTORAL COLLEGEBrian C. Mooney, Globe Staff
defeating Donald Trump in the Omaha-centered area known as the state's "blue dot." The district, which previously supported Democrats Barack Obama in 2008 and Joe Biden in 2020, added to Harris' tally in this unique system where Nebraska and Maine split their electoral votes based on individu...
Maine's politics are notable for several reasons. In the 1930s, it was one of very few states which remained dominated by the Republican Party. In the 1936 presidential election, Franklin Roosevelt received the Electoral Votes of every state other than Maine and Vermont. Maine voters tend to ...
Angus King is an American politician who was elected as an Independent to the U.S. Senate in 2012 and began representing Maine in that body the following year. He previously served as governor of the state (1995–2003).
Using the congressional district method, these states allocate two electoral votes to the state popular vote winner, and then one electoral vote to the popular vote winner in each congressional district (2 in Maine, 3 in Nebraska). This creates multiple popular vote contests in these states, ...
28, removed former President Donald Trump from the state’s presidential primary ballot under the Constitution’s insurrection clause, becoming the first election official to take action unilaterally in a decision that has potential Electoral College consequences. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File...
But he earned one of Maine’s four Electoral College votes in 2020 by winning the state’s 2nd Congressional District, so Bellows’ decision could have an impact next November. Critics warned that it was an overreach and that the court could not simply declare that the Jan. 6 attack was ...
The odds of an Electoral College tie are still very small, 1.3 percent according to the FiveThirtyEight forecast. But those odds have risen as Mitt Romney has narrowed President Obama’s lead. At the beginning of October theodds of a tiewere 0.6 percent and several weeks before that they wer...
Maine's politics are notable for several reasons. In the 1930s, it was one of very few states which remained dominated by the Republican Party. In the 1936 presidential election, Franklin Roosevelt received the Electoral Votes of every state other than Maine and Vermont. Maine voters tend to ...
Maine allocates some of its Electoral College votes to the winners of individual congressional districts, giving Trump a boost despite his statewide loss. Just two years prior, Republican Bruce Poliquin replaced Democratic Rep. Mike Michaud in the U.S. House. Recommended Videos But the ...