elections

Rep. John Martin, D-Eagle Lake, is sponsoring a bill to move to a National Popular Vote, which would award the presidency to the candidate who gets the most popular votes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Every four years, the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia redraws state lines to reflect the political influence of each state. Center Director Larry J. Sabato, in a year-end political retrospective, writes about the map and what they are trying to show.

Want to serve in the Maine House of Representatives? If you live in Farmington or Industry, here's your chance.

For those who've been watching this stuff for months, the top-of-the ticket outcomes last night weren't any real surprise, at least not in Maine. But I was shocked by some of the other results:

Election Day is here. For many Americans, myself included, this is the most anticipated election our lifetimes.

A group of Maine legislators will gather in Portland today to announce their opposition to Question 2, which would allow a casino in Oxford County.

It hardly seems possible that Election Day is in just two weeks. So where do things stand? Here's glimpse from Rasmussen Reports: Nationally, Democratic Sen. Barack Obama is at 50 percent, with Sen. John McCain at 46 percent, according to the daily tracking poll.

With the Nov. 4 election just three weeks away, all the campaigns are shifting into high gear. Here's a sample of what's going on:

It was an exercise in discipline, writing and concise thinking. Fifteen legislative candidates came to the Kennebec Valley Chamber of Commerce breakfast this morning at the Senator Inn in Augusta to talk about why they are running for office. And they each had only one minute to do it.

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, launched a bus tour in Bangor today, shifting her campaign "into high gear," according to her spokesman.