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Politics & Other Mistakes (opens the original)
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There’s been much gnashing of teeth recently over Maine’s use of Ranked Choice Voting, also known as Instant Runoff Voting (IRV). That’s unfortunate, because all that tooth gnashing can’t be healthy for the chompers, particularly in a state with a shortage of dentists. The problem, as displayed vividly after the June primary, is that the term “instant” is relative. It seems reasonable when compared to the age of the universe, 13.8 billion years, but less so when it bumps up against the expectati
Politics & Other Mistakes (opens the original)
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How can you safely distinguish the weirdos from the freaks without contracting whatever is wrong with them? Or in more prosaic terms, how do you sort the MAGA extremists from the Antifa nutcases without catching something viral? Fortunately, there’s a useful (and sanitary) tool for making these choices if you’re trying to assess the job done by members of the Maine Legislature. Every year, the Maine People’s Alliance, as liberal an assemblage of wannabes and never-weres as any democratic-sociali
Politics & Other Mistakes (opens the original)
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It sucks to live in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District. Oh, the scenery is nice. Except where it’s not (New Vineyard, looking at you). Traffic is light. But not in the summer. And sometimes the winter. And we don’t have to put up with Live Nation. Except in Bangor. Also, there are plenty of pot shops and enough roadside dive bars to keep things from getting too dull. But there’s more to life than chillin’. Health care is hard to find. Jobs are in short supply. Schools are closing. And the neares
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