AUGUSTA, Maine — A new poll shows independent Angus King holding a 26-point lead over his closest rival in the race for Maine’s open U.S. Senate seat, in contrast with other recent polls that have shown Maine’s Senate race to be closer.
King led the Senate race with support from 50 percent of respondents, according to a poll released Wednesday by Portland-based Pan Atlantic SMS Group. Republican Charlie Summers attracted the support of 24 percent of respondents while Democrat Cynthia Dill had 12 percent support. Some 14 percent were undecided.
Pan Atlantic surveyed 400 respondents by phone from Sept. 24-28, including only respondents who voted in Maine’s 2010 gubernatorial election and are likely to vote again on Nov. 6. The poll carries a 4.9 percent margin of error for most questions.
The Pan Atlantic survey offers a picture of the Maine Senate race that shows King with a wider lead than other September surveys showed.
A survey conducted by Rasmussen Reports on Sept. 25 found King with a 12-point lead over Summers, 45-33. Rasmussen surveyed 500 likely voters; its survey had a 4.5 percent margin of error.
Earlier in September, the Maine People’s Resource Center, which polled 856 registered voters, found King leading Summers 44-28 while North Carolina-based Public Policy Polling found an eight-point difference between King and Summers, 43-35, after surveying 804 likely voters. The Maine People’s Resource Center, which leans Democratic, conducted its poll Sept. 15-17 and had a 3.35 percent margin of error; Public Policy Polling surveyed respondents Sept. 17-18 and had a margin of error of 3.5 percent.
In a poll of 618 likely voters conducted by Portland-based Critical Insights, King was leading Summers 50-28. That poll, commissioned by the Portland Press Herald, was conducted Sept. 12-16 and carried a 4 percent margin of error.
The difference in poll results is likely a result of differing methodologies, said Pan Atlantic President Patrick Murphy. Pan Atlantic and Critical Insights use live interviewers while the other firms that have surveyed the Maine Senate race use automated telephone surveys.
“Some of these other polls are done like bullet polls,” Murphy said. “They don’t offer the opportunity for pollsters to pursue answers.”
Murphy said Pan Atlantic’s interviewers asked respondents only about King, Summers and Dill. They didn’t ask about independents Andrew Ian Dodge, Steve Woods or Danny Dalton.
The poll contained some promising numbers for supporters of same-sex marriage. Some 57 percent of respondents said they planned to vote for the state ballot measure that would legalize same-sex marriage in Maine while 39 percent were opposed and 4.5 percent undecided. Murphy, however, said the level of support in the poll was likely inflated, based on responses when Pan Atlantic asked respondents how they felt about same-sex marriage in general.
The survey also shows incumbent U.S. Reps. Mike Michaud and Chellie Pingree comfortably leading their Republican challengers in the state’s Second and First districts respectively, though the congressional surveys carried wider margins of error because of smaller sample sizes.
While Michaud led Republican Kevin Raye 52-32 in the Pan Atlantic poll, the survey carried a margin of error of 6.9 percent, meaning the results could vary by nearly seven percentage points. Pingree held a 57-24 edge over Republican Jon Courtney; that survey question carried a 7 percent margin of error.
The presidential results mirror those of other recent surveys, with 51 percent of respondents choosing President Barack Obama and 37 percent choosing former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Some 10 percent of respondents were undecided.
Like other surveys, the Pan Atlantic poll found a narrower margin in Maine’s Second District, where Obama had a 49-38 edge over Romney, compared to a 53-35 edge in the First District.
Respondents were split on support for the Affordable Care Act, the Obama administration’s signature health care reform law. Forty-seven percent said they favored it compared to 41 percent who said they opposed it.
BDN political analyst Robert Long contributed to this report.
We are going to see plenty of votes for the Green and LP tickets in Maine. Its also tragic these senate polls ignore the “bottom 3” candidates
Why shouldn’t they ignore them?
The Voters are!
Thats what polls are, a measure of voter sentiment!
Runoff voting until there was a 50+ percent majority winner would change that fast.
We need such a system to strengthen our democracy.
Agreed … nobody should be sent anywhere without at least 50% of the electorate support.
If we had only had that when LePage was running for governor. Libby Mitchell would have been out and Elliot Cutler would have won the election. If only, if only…
um, your number is 80%…80% of Maine voters did NOT want a democrat or thier ideology in the Blaine House….
You are right. And Baldacci would have never been gov. at all.
What’s tragic. They were included in the 14% undecided.
LMFAO yeah I’m sure this is accurate. In other news President Obama was elected with 102% of the vote.
If you ignore something, that means it’s not real.
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Angus King is the moderate/centrist candidate. Maine likes moderates.
Charlie is too Tea’d; Dill is too Left.
Go Gus!
King, and his friends in the press have presented him as the moderate/centrist candidate, but his record is anything but. He’s a liberal democrat through and through, and only poses as an independent because he knows that large groups of uninformed middle of the road voters will vote him just because of that, without having any idea what he really stands for.
Poppycock! Right Rs scream he’s a democrat, Left Ds scream he’s a republican, ergo he IS a centrist/independent. Dill is circulating a video of Joe Brennan declaring that Angus King is a republican. I viewed it as a pro-King endorsement! LOL!
Double poppycock right back at ya! While the DNC can’t officially endorse a non-dem candidate such as King, they also haven’t even endorsed their own candidate in this election because they want King to win! King’s been endorsed by all the usual lib suspects, the Sierra Club, the Maine teachers union, etc. and if elected he’ll caucus with the dems. If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck….
Who cares how he walks or talks? He is the best candidate by far!
Not for this state !
what is the alternative?
Yes, sweetheart, “for this state!” Long live the King!
Or maybe the DNC accepts the reality and doesn’t want to waste resources on Dill. Admittedly, King is more liberal than some, but he’s also more conservative than some. All of which makes him the moderate.
Tell me … Why I should vote for Charlie or Cynthia ?… How do they walk and talk?
Left, right, in reverse order (sorry, I couldn’t resist a straight line like that)
LOL… Thanks.
He ran and was elected as Governor as an independent. He still is independent. He will be the next u S Senator from Maine. Yahoo for Maine voters.
Well it seems like he’s fooled you !
What “seems” to you, is not reality! Long live the King!!!
Obviously you are too young to remember when he was Governor and the debt he left us in.
What debt? The $1billion “shortfall” , which is actually a structural gap,that the republicans like to tote? Maine has to have a balanced budget by law. LePage himself has a $750 million “shortfall” by your own standards then.
Mr “Independent” will caucus with the Dems and vote to put the despicable Harry Reid back as Senate Majority leader. But that’s all okay because he’s going to figure a way all by himself to harness the wind and solve all our energy woes.
Wind may not be the answer but it is time we start looking at alternatives. Isn’t it stupid that we buy oil from the Middle East & then fight wars in those countries where our young people are killed and maimed? We financially support these countries by buying their oil. Let’s make use of the sun and wind. AZ has lots of sunshine but nothing is being done to use the sun for energy there. We have to state thinking outside the box.
like domestic oil production…and lots of it…….millions of jobs in this industry lay in waiting….
OnTheIssues has him as a centrist and that is based on record.
And he has a cool name Angus (like a scotch beef cow) Where’s the BEEF.
I don’t like it but it doesn’t surprise me.
I can not for the life of me understand Maine people. I am born and raised in Maine and when I get screwed by someone who does not and never had my best interests at heart, I don’t support him as a canidate for our U.S. Senate. What is wrong with you people. He screwed Maine for 8 years and lined his pockets with our money and now you want to send him to the U.S. Senate where he can do it again! He will not represent Maine but use his position to further any agenda that will give him more money for him. He only does what benefits himself not Maine. I know some of you will not agree with me but that is my opinion. So when you vote for him and you find out you are screwed again don’t cry foul. You get what you deserve!
Too bad, so sad. King is by far the best candidate of the 6 running. Now go to your corner and whine.
Don’t want to lose your welfare do you !! vote for King & Obama tax and spend..tax and spend.
and a phone….don’t forget your ‘Obama phone’….ok……
Would you rather help a Mainer in need or have the Repubs give that money to the rich in tax cuts? Those are the only choices. The Repubs will not let that savings find it’s way into your pocket. Look at history. They caused this mess in the first place.
Whose money are you talking about?
Look at your bank Account!
Income and Payments!
You cant have one without the other unless you want to live in a cave stroking a gold ring saying my precious my precious while your teeth rot out of your head!
LOL
You are just the reason that Maine people won’t elect anyone other than King for the US Senate.
First, you don’t know a thing about me. I have worked my whole life, planned for my retirement and am enjoying it! I have never been in the position to have needed welfare, fortunately. However, I am happy to be able to help others who are indeed in need. I have happily paid every tax I needed to and have never regretted it it because God blessed me with the ability and good luck to be able to take care of myself. It is indeed unfortunate that people like you have no desire to look out for our neighbors in need.
Oh enough of that nonsense. You people dance for joy over endless tax subsidies for oil billionaires, no bid contractors, and idiotic endless job killing tax giveaways to the uber-rich job killers who dance for joy themselves every time they ship another American job overseas. YOU are the ones who created the Great Recession. YOU are the ones who are married to WEALTHFARE and love to tax and spend and tax and spend our money on the rich. YOU are the ones who drove us into massive debt with your wars, donut hole, and job killing giveaways to the billionaires ALL on the credit card. And YOU are the ones who at the very same time don’t want to cut a nickel from the bloated military budget which is HALF of all discretionary spending. In fact you want to blow away two trillion more bucks on it. And you also ADORE your own programs from Medicare to the local high school football team. You are BIG GOVERNMENT TEAPUBLICANS TO THE VERY HILT, and you know it. So enough of your LIES and HYPROCRISY.
Angus… MEat puppet.
I couldn’t believe his support back in 1994 when he switched his life long Democrat party affiliation because he couldn’t beat Joe Brennan in the primary. He cobbled together a coalition of the willing from all sides who believed his bluster. He has a record now, yet you still believe him. If you deny what he did in public office to enrich himself, well, you’re a poster child for what Abraham Lincoln said because it is indeed true that you can fool some of the people all of the time. Angus is a sheep herder & he’s leading all you lambs over the cliff & the rest of us to the slaughter. Your ignorance is bliss until it arrives @ my doorstep. Thanks!
what specifically did he do that was so bad?
Doubled state spending under his tenure, just to start.
So completely untrue.
Actually, it is true.
http://www.pressherald.com/news/in-chambers-ads-numbers-check-out_2012-07-27.html
Even if he did it was paid for!
Unlike the Tea fools Plan—- Cut All Taxes and Expect Spending to go away by default!
” Angus is a sheep herder & he’s leading all you lambs over the cliff & the rest of us to the slaughter.” In my eyes, that would be the Tea Party being led by HPC, led by ALEC
You admire how brilliant he was and is. Great! “Cobbled” is a great word but you have used it inappropriately. He won didn’t he? That’s my point! He did NOTHING in office to enrich himself. You mistake having and a brain and thus a plan for the future after serving in office as a weakness. You mistake having a business acumen as weakness. And, by the way, my jump over the cliff, as you put it, propelled me to see terrific sunshine, almost heaven like. Long live the King!
…a perfect representation of the 3rd grade level of mentality of those that are voting for the presumptive ‘King’
and yes, well over half the state’s voters are basically walking, functional illiterates at this point…they’re all just really good at convincing themselves they are objective intellectuals
Well, thank you for the compliment. I am happy to know that after working for and receiving a doctorate degree that I have achieved, in your mind, the level of a third grader. I am happy to report that I voted for Angus twice and expect to so twice again – in 2012 and 2018.
Using facts to support your answer, please tell me when King screwed you out of your money to line his pockets. You mention that he will screw you again. When did he screw you the first time? Again, using facts to explain….
Taunting for facts?
Do wind farm subsidies mean anything to you?
Well, since none of the big three are for ending all subsidies it’s a moot point.
The wind farm subsidies came from Federal Stimulus money, not directly from Mainers.
King got the law passed that 30% of our power had to be form renewable resources and after he leaves office starts a windmill co. Just where do you think some of that Federal Stimulus money came from? Then he gets Fed. backed loans so he doesn’t risk his own money.
Are Mainers exempt from Federal taxes? No? Then some of that stimulus money came from Mainers. Federal money is raised from taxes – it’s not someone else’s money.
Most mainers don’t pay taxes because they are big fat, foodstamp president loving welfare recipients who don’t get off the couch.
federal stimulus money is a big part of the $51,558 every American citizen owes for their share of the national debt which now stands at 16 trillion dollars and growing by over 3 billion dollars a day. Bush share for 8 years 4.9 trillion, Obama share in 4 years 5.5 trillion. where do we go from here? if this problem is not addressed massive inflation and a worthless dollar are in the not to distant future
There has never been a Repub President who didn’t increase the National Debt. There is no reason to believe Romney will be any different. Repubs didn’t complain when Bush was spending like a drunken sailor. Don’t forget the Federal bailout of Bain Capital. $10 million dollars! There also was the stimulus money given back to the taxpayers. Did you or anyone else give the money back? Didn’t think so. Don’t forget the $20.3 million that went to Ryan’s district at his request too.
Gofer give specific backup on your claim of $10 Million for Bain capital and $20.3 million for Ryan. Please forgive me if I question any claim you would make against Bain or Ryan considering that your objectivity is so impeccable!
http://www.boston.com/politicalintelligence/2012/08/13/paul-ryan-district-supported-energy-funds-while-decrying-stimulus-
program/ohqoiZCyc6KVG6YTgkpL3J/story.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/30/mitt-romney-bain-bailout_n_1843601.html
“. . . stimulus money given back to the taxpayers.” Recent media reports (even in that bastion of objectivity the BDN) shows that the bulk of the “stimulus” funds went to local governments to bolster BO’s voting supporters!
keep ignoring the problem and the day will come when you have to have a wheelbarrow full of money to buy a loaf of bread
Well…Gee…We didn’t have a problem when Clinton was in office. Why not go back to taxing the rich like we did then. (Wonder where I heard that before?) How about stopping people like Romney from sending all our jobs overseas. You know, I think that is the reason unemployment is as high as it is now. Once a job is given to our friends, the Communists, (China,VietNam, Singapore) they are gone forever. Then we could always go after the speculators who are driving the cost of oil. Picking on the poor solves nothing. That useless Congress we have solves nothing
your buddy Clinton passed NAFTA which pretty much did a job on paper industry jobs in Maine. how many Dexter Shoe jobs are there since Warren Buffet bought it? where did those jobs go? also Singapore is not a communist country
how about a Billion+ in unfunded mandates and spending programs he left as a gift for the state taxpayers as he walked out the door of the Blaine House?
and now you suposedly ‘informed’ and ‘educated’ people want to send him to Washington where he can create a mess that is counted in Trillions instead of Billions?
give me a break…..you put this guy in office and it will just be that much quicker that we reach the point where SS checks start bouncing
Talk to the Repubs! They picked his adversary. Of the two, I think we will see more for Mainers comming from King. Obviously, so do others.
He released his tax records. Its quite clear he didn’t ‘line his pockets’.
Then get a republican who is not beholden and pledged to Norquist of the fanatical tea partiers.
Oh yes, of course…
freedom, liberty, financially repsonsible government, medical services to ALL through sound money, banking and health insurance reform, personal responsibility
fanatical ideas for sure….
They are today.
Please enlighten me on these “sound” reforms you have in mind.
i am shocked the moderator let that through….arent’ those ideas bordering on treason, constitutional blasphemy?
When I started reading your comment it sounded like you were wondering why people vote Republican. Sorry, my mistake.
Good question. Why do people vote Republican?
Dumb and poor?
when you kids and grandkids ask ‘Why you didnt vote republican” you can explain it to them then…..when they pay an income tax rate of 35%, and are strangled by regulations….
and pay 60% of every $1 to entitlements
Some of us think we should take responsibility for our own lives. Not lead, fed, and controlled by the government
I wonder if you’d feel the same way if you were uninsured with cancer.
If you are uninsured (or insured) with cancer how should you feel? Should you bankrupt your family to gain a few months, a year or more or should you add to the impending financial collapse of the USA for the same reason?
At present the only “cure” for cancer is a bullet between the eyes!
The impending financial collapse of this country? Ask the Repubs in Congress what they have done to try to stop it! Why add one more to the pile?
Just maybe if the Dems. in this state hasn’t taxed and regulated our businesses to death and the green branch of your party would stop fighting nearly every new business we would have decent paying jobs with insurance. Just for your info. I lost my wife of 35 years to cancer. We had a high deductible. Which I payed off with out government help. There are some good fed. programs out there. But as said, take personal responsibility for yourself and don’t depend of the government to meet all your needs.
Intelligent people (and voters) think for themselves gophers – unlike prairie dogs who move with the group!
Really, as I look here and there about Maine, on the road, I think of how absolutely we were and are hood winked by Snowe and Collins, either of them could see the folly of the Iraq invasion, they buddied right up to Bush and Cheney, we are all broke and them two are millionaires, Susan Collins has almost bankrupted the U.S. Post Office with her meddling. The laptop program alone shows King’s ability to inspire.
Vote King
The laptop program alone shows King’s ability to spend money ! I’d like to know which one of his buddies or family members had stock in the companies that sold the laptops ! You fooled me once Angus with your ” independant ” ramblings , you’re running for the office for a reason other than our common good !
You arn’t going to prevent Angus from being elected by trying to make him look bad. Try pushing Charlie’s qualifications. If you want me to vote for him, tell me why.
Dill is in Quimby’s pocket and I’m anti national park in Millinocket area. King is a phoney and his actions re wind power scare me into thinking we will pay more for energy. Sommer’s the only one who hasn’t screwed me yet so it’s his turn !
so what specifically did he do to Maine people?
We don’t need more Senators who’s single purpose there is to stop Obama. I, for one, don’t think that is acting on behalf of the voters. You and others keep talking about how King screwed Mainers with investing in Wind Power. have you taken a look at the price of heating oil lately? Brought to you by Charlie backers! Now I haven’t seen any proof of King scamming millions out of the State. His tax returns don’t reflect that.
I can see by some of the remarks, ya can fix stupid.
Ya, But he did it himself!
If you Vote Republican You Get Screwed By A Gang!!
LOL
That snake-oil King is selling must be good and tasty!
All these comments against King and none pushing Summer’s attributes, LOL.
Pan Atlantic asked “respondents”. Didn’t say they were likely voters. So these numbers are an outlier, but the snake-oil salesman will try the spin the narrative that the race is over. What is curious is that many Dems are eager to throw Dill under the bus to back someone who does not even have the berries to announce who he would caucus with. True profile in courage.
What has Charlie done for Maine?
Show me what Charlie’s got!
With Michael Bloomberg and Erskine Bowles behind him, how can he lose?
Wind bag and a soda jerk that should get a lot of votes from the moonbats.
Angus King now, Cynthia Dill as his successor !!!
the pan atlantic also has big bird up over obama by 30.
At least it isn’t Romney. Yahoo!!
Romney is now ahead of soro’s puppet. Even Sesame street can not save Obie now.Yahoo!!
Not in Maine, Romney isn’t but either way, one shouldn’t count chickens until they are hatched.
with big bird the only topic the dems have left.Also with todays cover up being outed.I think it is time for the republicans everywhere to start counting chickens.
Romney had his share of shipping jobs overseas, how will he make jobs for Americans with decent wages and benefits?
Evidently you did not get the updated list of democrat lies. When Romney wins the presidency he can Repeal all these anti-work programs the great puppet has put forward.Also create a climate that will allow business to feel better about investing knowing they will not get blindsided by some stupid government policy.A climate of jobs rather than entitlements.
I’m with Big Bird! So, start counting. Then go to belfast for the chicken festival!!!
Speaking of puppets, look to R&R.
The stupidity of the american voter never ceases to amaze me.
Does anyone even care about candidates voting record? their back room shady deals that enriched their friends? the programs that they set up to exploit later on?
are you so naive to think that Summers hasn’t had a few backroom deals?
they all have. the system needs to change.
How true AncientLegacy. A case in point is the latest King ad where he runs down a litany of liberal philosophies as things he’ll accomplish in Washington. The real knee slapper is at the end of the ad when he touts himself as an “independent” voice for ME. What a joke.
It is. The ‘g’ is silent.
See how wrong you can be without even trying.
I thought it was (Anguish).
This is horrible news!
Having worked for Patrick doing polling, I’ve learned that it is possible to set up the respondent for the answer you hope to get; now whether they used suggestive ‘lead-in’s’ for this survey I don’t know, but they were used to ‘push’ the respondent in the direction the sponsor—-you know who is paying $$$ for the poll wants.
Here’s a caveat disclaimer you must all read first from the GayMarriage survey by Patrick:
However, responses to a preliminary question that asked those polled to describe their personal position on same-sex marriage raised doubts and spurred Murphy to include an analysis that states, “The percentage of those who say they plan to vote for same-sex marriage may well be inflated and in all likelihood is not at the level recorded in the straight-up polling question.
Publish the script and let us judge whether this technique was used and emotional set-up questions imbedded. A ‘good’ interviewer can add inflections which further emphasize the direction they want to push the respondent….It’s an interesting, and very profitable business!
The “inflated” analysis applies to unique issues like gay marriage alone though. People are generally fine to admit which candidate they plan to vote for, they’re however less likely to admit to voting against equal rights for their gay neighbors. People are less likely to admit to that and so they lie to pollsters as to how they’ll vote.
Shucks! Did you just admit that people lie on polls?
Yeah, when people are embarrassed of their bigotry, they lie about it.
Fool ME once, shame on you,
fool ME twice, me twice shame on ME
This poll only shows that ME people deserve exactly what they have gotten in the past, and deserve heaping helpings of more in the future.
King represents the ultimate insider/elite of status quo, of the tired old pols who moved this state to our current condition………………….they all made millions for their friends and families, while average Mainers can barley feed, heat, and find a place to live with no job………………..
I believe Angus made most of his money before he became governor.
Check his tax records. This is just untrue.
“…someday, and that day may never come, I will ask a favor of you…” the day has come for those who received their favors ?
No poll can take away your vote unless you let it control you. If it sounds too bad to be true it probably isn’t true! Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise…you and I have the power and the Liberal opposition knows it.
November 6 approaches. How many people fit in your car? I can…and will… take at least three.
Same response as before, make sure they’re registered. We don’t want election fraud, do we? :-)
And do they have to agree to your standards in order to get a ride? Dominance.
Standards?
Wow. Maine really knows how to play the DC game: They’re about to send the most corrupt candidate there.
Angus King is a celebrity, not a leader. (Stephen King would be far better, but he’s not running: Can’t take the horror of facing our national debt head-on.)
I would say Nutting is a lot more corrupt that King. How much money is it Nutting owes the State of Maine? Maine will probably never see it yet he serves in a high position in State government
Oh please, you make yourself look ridiculous…..and without that picture of Nixon hanging from a tree, you still think he was never punished.
Then get Nutting to pay our million bucks back.
Yessah
Angus King the Independent Democrat (still)
80% of Mainers voted AGAINST democratic ideology in 2010…theres your number. Angus King holds many of that same ideology, wind energy when our country is desperate for lower energy costs, raising taxes as a means to grow government and completely without principle when he says, “He doesn’t know who he will caucus with”….this completly disrespects the voters of Maine with this kind of high-school, hee-hee, ‘catch-me-if-you-can’ mentality…At least Charlie Summers takes a stand…on everything, whether you like it or not, you honestly know where he stands on issues…Maine’s enemies are cost of energy,the growth of government ideology and spending within our means. If you think Angus King has a track record of fighting tooth and nail against those current enemies, then you have made your choice. If you still care that these issues are met head-on, and you are not sure who will do that…really do that….then at least Charlie Summers has an ideology of good-governance and common sense..oh yea, when Maine’s Senator meets al-Qaeda face to face in the sand (anedotally speaking of course….I mean, who would possible think…haha…that our Senators would actually be on the battlefield, i mean, please…) who will they fear?….when a rat meets a scorpion, the rat loses. When a rat meets a rat…well, you can call that one..
Summers couldn’t even be bothered to show for a debate
somethin you dont know still? Just ask him
I hung up on the pollster. The questions were misleading.
I hung up also , was busy working to put my kids thru school. I wonder if the fact that I was working and too busy to participate in the poll has anything to do with why it leans to the liberal side so much .
Oh god, are you serious?
working people can lean to the left and be good parents, believe it or not.
Excellent!
King certainly meets one of the primary qualifications to be a senator – he was born before the dinosaurs.
is that really necessary? Sue Collins is about 59 and has been in the office for a while. That’s young. are you still in diapers?
I was not sure who I would vote for but once I saw that Bloomberg was a strong supporter, that said it all. Maybe Mayor Bloomberg figures Angus will also tell us what we can and can’t eat.
maybe 1 day King will be the first President from Maine! Wouldn’t that be cool!
Not if the likes of Bloomberg have his ear. That is downright scary and uncool.
Amen! Bloomberg can only vie for the most despicable mayor in the USA! Shall we open nominations for the second most?
Maine will never produce a president until the population thereof overcomes it’s “you owe me” attitude and returns to that “Yankee spirit” that grew the state in the first place!
In the second place King is not from Maine – he is a Virginian and a product of a state that has produced several presidents – but (I hope) not another president (or a senator) soon!
A poll will convince people who have no clue.
I had an campaigner stop in the other day who admitted he was a communist and wanted me to vote for a democrat. I told him only liberals ran on the communist ideals, Democrats believed in the constitution.
What we have here is they are counting on the shallowness of the voter to want to vote for someone who the media tells them to..
The fact that 75% of the voters have no idea who is running is stunning..
Anyone who votes for Angus is one of the uninformed on the issues.. But they don’t care as long as it is shiney.
No communists are campaigning for the Democratic Party.
You made that up.
Yessah
“No communists are campaigning for the Democrat(ic) party. . .” Of course not! The Socialists and other (farther left) elements cannot be distinguished from the “mainstream” democrats!
Prove me wrong!
Most eyes see it different than you, but thats alright, you can’t help it.
When King was governor , he never saw a dollar I had that he didn’t wanted to spend for something else.
now that is funny
where did you go to school?
How soon folks forget the Prints Of Darkness….the fingerprinting of teachers in Maine by Anguish…..assuming them all to be criminals…..I’d vote for my cat’s litter box before I’d vote for the King…and I don’t even have a cat.
How does it feel to be on the wrong end of the stick?
Gee james…so many just don’t seem to agree with your politics….Hmmmm maybe you’re the one on the wrong side of the stick? ever think of that?
Yuuuuup! The people of Maine ARE THAT STUPID!…
You might want to turn that statement inward, like the guy who was the only one in step in the parade.
Nooooooope! I know what I know….thanks for your concern nonetheless
Charlie Summers thinks volcanoes cause global warming – HE IS THAT STUPID.
The people of Maine know better – they are that smart.
Don’t get me started on voter suppression…
Yessah
Anything that contributes gases to the atmosphere may cause global warming if your were inclined to believe that BS, errr I mean science…and while we are on the subject of BS..voter suppression is interesting propoganda…lawdy lawdy theys trying to keep us good folk from voting by making us prove who we say we are….
We are screwed !
Again.
Remember, everyone, “Independent” in politics means “accountable to no one!” Accountability is the true measure of someone who wants to represent Me the People! Rah rah Summers!
Angus, the only true choice for Maine!
Happy Happy Yeah Yeah, and I say this with complete Sarcasm… Just dont’ know what people see in him sometimes.
He wants to get in to line his pocket with millons of dollars from the Wind Farms. So hold on if we get four years of this transplant. Come on Maine what are you thinking. We would be better off with 4 yrs. of Brewer councilor Larry Doughty atleast he would speak up.
King need not be concerned about instilling an aura of mystery concerning his political position and flawed ideology to Mainers . An unproductive and dilatory tour at the Blaine House, lavish payoffs from the Federal government to underwrite his Quixote quests, and the rapacious destruction of Maine’s wilderness are all too familiar themes to those who have eyes to see. This mildewed remnant of average intellect will unlikely go away; however, he should be reminded frequently and often that a failed legacy cannot be easily obfuscated.
You only flatter yourself with that one. Sounds like the slow gurgle of a drain pipe.
The whining and gnashing of teeth from the Teahadist Dittoheads is music to my ears.
They will try to tell us these polls are “fraudulent” – just like the 7.8% unemployment rate.
Yessah
Wow, King got a real hair removal all over his face and head — head, eyebrows, mustache. I hope he didn’t pay much for that haircut. It is good around the sides, but they messed up on top. Oops, I figured it out — he is bald and trying to hide it with a comb over. Us woman hate it when a man does a comb over to hide the baldness.
This is a shoddy poll, so one is left wondering, why did the BDN print it?
ROMNEY / RYAN 2012 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HaHaHa!!! Ups, excuse me, HaHaHaHa!
Rohhhhh roh did anyone tell partisan hack Matt Gagnon, I think his poll is just the opposite. Frankly polls don’t really matter they are but a snapshot at best. Just relax until most of the T’hadists are gone………. soon. Then we can celebrate.
Mainers are as dumb as they look it seems. Just plain dumb- how else do you explain it??
On the morning of November 7th, the TeaPublican Party is going to feel like a bratty little kid hobbling out of the woodshed after a very serious SPANKING.
Summers is GOING DOWN in a massive way ! He is a JOKE. And the TeaPublicans backing him with all their millions of dollars in LYING ADS is going to be WASTED money in a very, very big way. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA…