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Maine Governor's Race Tests Tea Party Movement
By not in system - AOL News(June 12) -- One of the campaigns in which the Tea Party movement and conservative activists have reared their heads with initial success, and has not received the attention of some other similar races, is the contest for Maine governor in which Paul LePage, the mayor of Waterville and a former lumber and paper company executive, came out of nowhere to beat seven rivals for the GOP nomination. He swamped the closest contender by a 2-1 margin. ...
Maine Governor's Race: Another Test of the Tea Party Movement
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyOne of the campaigns in which the Tea Party movement and conservative activists have reared their heads with initial success, and has not received the attention of some other similar races, is the contest for Maine governor in which Paul LePage, the mayor of Waterville and a former lumber and paper company executive, came out of nowhere to beat seven rivals for the GOP nomination. He swamped the closest contender by a 2-1 margin. That has set up a race between the most conservative candidate in the Republican field against a distinctly liberal Democrat, state Senate President Elizabeth ...
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