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PublishedJune 26, 2021
Commentary: Andrew Yang’s failed New York mayoral bid is a good thing for politics
So far, there’s little evidence that hopeless presidential campaigns can advance one’s career.
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PublishedApril 12, 2021
Legislation would allow unenrolled voters to cast ballots in Maine party primaries
The bill is one of several that would increase voter participation in primaries or streamline the balloting process by rescheduling the newly created presidential primary from March to June.
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PublishedApril 7, 2021
Sen. Hickman: Mainers must have the right to vote in all taxpayer-funded elections
L.D. 231 would let unenrolled voters cast one ballot in the primary of their choice without having to enroll in a political party.
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PublishedMarch 2, 2021
Commentary: There’s one democracy reform best suited to stopping Trump’s comeback
Open primaries would force candidates to demonstrate broad appeal to the overall electorate in order to advance to the general election.
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PublishedJanuary 24, 2021
Maine Voices: Use new glue to repair our democracy
Open primaries will encourage voters to think of ourselves not as Republicans or Democrats, but as Americans.
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PublishedMarch 18, 2020
Sanders faces tough decisions as path to nomination narrows
The Vermont senator confronts the grim calculation that he has virtually no chance of leading the Democratic Party's ticket.
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PublishedMarch 7, 2020
With Trump their only choice, more Maine Republicans than usual left ballots blank
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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PublishedMarch 5, 2020
Our View: Public health big winner in Maine’s special election
A vaccine requirement receives strong support, and other outcomes of Tuesday's primary.
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PublishedMarch 5, 2020
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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PublishedMarch 4, 2020
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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