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November 4, 2010

Franco-American vote comes through for LePage

The Associated Press

LEWISTON — Lewiston voters traditionally support Democrats. But on Tuesday, Maine's second-largest city counted more votes for Paul LePage in the governor's race than for independent Eliot Cutler or Democrat Libby Mitchell.

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Bates College history professor and Republican activist Douglas Hodgkin tells the Sun Journal of Lewiston that LePage benefited from the city's Franco-American vote. LePage, a Republican, will become the first popularly elected Franco-American governor in Maine, where about a third of the population is of Franco heritage.

Rita Dube (DOO-bee) of the Franco-American Heritage Center in Lewiston says having a Franco governor was overdue. Dube says LePage is a product of Lewiston's Little Canada section and "you don't get more Franco than that."

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