Remember the Republican State Leadership Committee, the Virginia-based group that dumped $400,000 on five state senate races in 2010? Well, it’s back.  The quarterly PAC reports filed last night showed that the RSLC has funneled $220,000 into the Maine Senate Republican Majority PAC, bringing the latter’s total haul to over $367,000. The Senate Republican Majority […]

Angus King, the independent candidate running for the U.S. Senate, appears to be getting some help from the group Americans Elect, the well-funded national organization that previously attempted to draft a bipartisan presidential ticket.  The presidential endeavor fell short, but it appears that Americans Elect is now funneling its resources to help congressional candidates, or […]

  According to Wikipedia, there are roughly 9.1 million subscribers to the online video game World of Warcraft. So it makes sense that some folks in that community are going to hear about the Maine Republican Party mailer and press statement criticizing Democratic state Senate candidate Colleen Lachowicz for playing the game and using her […]

* Updated at 5:40 p.m. with Maine Democratic Party response * Updated at 7:45 p.m. with Republican consultant response  – S.M. It was apparent before, but now it’s official: The battle for state Senate District 32 in Bangor is on. Recent filings with the state Ethics Commission show that the Maine Senate Republican Majority PAC is […]

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Charlie Summers will be in Washington, D.C. Wednesday evening looking to boost his campaign war chest. An invitation of the event was obtained by the Sunlight Foundation service Party Time, which gathers fundraising invitations for congressional members and candidates. According to the invitation, Summers will be joined by Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., […]

DemsSD6flier It’s relatively common practice for legislative candidates not to mention their party affiliation. The idea is to avoid turning off would-be supporters, especially independent voters. In Senate District 6, which includes Scarborough and Gorham, the Maine Democratic Party has taken the practice a step further. At first glance, the above mail piece appears to tout […]

The Maine Republican Party appears to be getting into the reverse psychology game. See the above mailer, which was provided by a couple of readers, one an enrolled Democrat, another a young unenrolled voter. On the surface, the ad appears to be a take-down of Cynthia Dill, the Democratic candidate running for the U.S. Senate. […]

Charlie Summers, the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, has released a second television ad.  The spot builds off Summers’ first ad, which was essentially designed to introduce voters to the Scarborough resident. The second ad is designed to connect with voters by talking about Summers’ financial struggles and personal loss. It’s a small audience […]

The Boston Globe editorial board has weighed in on the television ads that are criticizing Angus King, the independent candidate for the U.S. Senate.  Specifically, the editorial calls “sketchy” ads by the National Republican Senatorial Committee that are attacking King’s involvement with the Record Will wind project in Roxbury. The editorial notes that the ads […]

Click here to listen to this week’s weekly interview with WGAN 560 hosts Mike Violette and Ken Altschuler. During this week’s segment we talk a lot about the U.S. Senate race, a potential change in strategy by independent candidate Angus King and how early voting could impact the race.