An analysis of Tuesday’s voting in the state’s largest towns shows that 1 in 5 of the party’s primary voters left the president’s oval blank or wrote in another name.
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Another poll shows Gideon leading Collins in potential Senate match-up
The survey by the left-leaning firm Public Policy Polling also shows President Trump trailing both Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders among likely Maine voters.
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Biden, Sanders crossed old political boundaries in Maine’s Democratic primary
Voting results defied conventional geographic and demographic divisions among the state’s Democrats, who reacted to a winnowing of the field in recent days.
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New California voting system was supposed to be a national model – it wasn’t
About one-fifth of Las Angeles County’s touch-screen voting machines did not work properly and had to be replaced.
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Biden builds coalition that could boost Democrats in November
Joe Biden had a strong showing Tuesday among African-Americans, suburbanites and moderate white voters.
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Historically large Democratic field boils down to two
Mike Bloomberg drops out and Elizabeth Warren weighs whether to continue or throw her support behind Bernie Sanders.
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Senate hopeful says she has enough signatures to get on Maine ballot
Lisa Savage, who left the Maine Green Independent Party to make it easier for her to get on the November ballot, now has enough petition signatures, her campaigns says.
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Portland overwhelmingly approves expansion of ranked-choice voting
Close to 80% of voters backed the proposal to use ranked-choice voting in all local elections.
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Biden and Sanders in close primary battle as count goes into Wednesday
Turnout was heavy for Maine’s first presidential primary in 20 years, and with 78% of polling places counted, Biden leads Sanders by about 1,350 votes.
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Interactive map on Maine Democratic presidential primary
Town-by-town results