WASHINGTON (AP) — Coverage of the U.S. presidential campaign (all times EDT): Updated 1:25 p.m.: A month ago, Speaker Paul Ryan told House Republicans he would neither defend nor work for Donald Trump’s election. Now America’s top elected Republican is talking unity. Ryan said in an interview Monday on WTMJ-AM that “I do not want […]
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Paul LePage wants college students voting in Maine to be residents
Gov. Paul LePage said Monday he welcomes college students who want to become Maine residents and vote here. But he didn’t sound especially welcoming. LePage warned students not to vote in Maine and back home in another state. “Casting ballots in two different states is voter fraud, which is why Maine law requires anyone voting […]
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How to follow Election Day online
#ELECTION2016: All day coverage from across Maine and the nation at SunJournal.com All SunJournal.com election stories will be free to read Live results and video on SunJournal.com, Facebook and Twitter throughout the night Complete roundup in Wednesday’s print edition NEW YORK — TVs are so last century. News outlets are using Facebook Live, Snapchat, YouTube and other tools […]
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Maine Dems find other sources after exit of megadonor Donald Sussman
AUGUSTA (AP) — The loss of a liberal megadonor’s millions of dollars in contributions this election season led Maine Democrats fighting to regain control of the state Senate to increasingly lean on a national Democratic Party group targeting state races in the state legislature where Republicans control the Senate and Democrats the House. Maine Democrats’ […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Androscoggin County area polling places
#ELECTION2016: All-day coverage from across Maine and the nation at SunJournal.com All SunJournal.com election stories will be free to read Live results and video on SunJournal.com, Facebook and Twitter throughout the night Complete roundup in Wednesday’s print edition Auburn — 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Ward 1 Washburn School, 35 Lake Auburn Ave. Ward 2 Auburn Middle School, 38 […]
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Voter suppression effort decried at Bates College
LEWISTON — Somebody doesn’t want Bates College students to vote Tuesday. Sometime Saturday, orange fliers appeared at a number of dorms and at the school’s dining hall claiming to be a “Legal Advisory” for Bates students. The papers gave no indication of their creator or distributor, despite a legal requirement that they carry a disclaimer. […]
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Profits and politics
Lip gloss. Hoodies. Hot dogs. It isn’t just TV stations and the post office benefiting from this election season’s heated campaigns in Maine. Fired up by the last presidential debate, Amanda Nelson, owner of a small Maine soap company behind quirky scents like Unicorn Farts and Bloody Lumberjack, created 40 tubes of Nasty Woman lip […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Lewiston sees record number of absentee ballots
LEWISTON — City Hall has already received 6,387 absentee ballots for the 2016 election, which is a record for the city, according to City Clerk Kathy Montejo. That number is “the most absentee ballots we’ve ever had,” she said. Almost 900 more ballots are expected to arrive between Sunday and Tuesday. Montejo said they had 20 citizens […]
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Congressmen forking over money for 2nd Congressional District race
It helps to have friends in high places. At least 75 members of the U.S. Congress have dipped into their own campaign funds to donate to their party’s candidate in Maine’s hard-fought 2nd Congressional District. Republican and Democratic incumbents, most of them in safe districts with no serious challenger, collectively tossed $114,000 into the coffers […]
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Workers lash out at Poliquin
Two longtime employees of the firm spoke at her Lisbon Street headquarters to lash into U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin, the first-term Republican whom Cain aims to unseat in Tuesday’s voting in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District. Poliquin is under fire for saying he’d helped manage the pension fund years ago when he actually had no role […]