| The Green Papers: Maine 2008 General Election |
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Maine
Elections for Statewide offices and Congress Primary: Tuesday 10 June 2008 General Election: Tuesday 4 November 2008 |
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The state legislators who will meet over the two years from 2009 through 2010 will make up the 124th MAINE LEGISLATURE. (NOTE: the numbering of Maine's LEGISLATURES dates back to its Admission as a State in 1820: the Legislature beginning in 1821 and ending in 1822 was the 1st; each session was thereafter numbered consecutively on an annual basis (the legislators of both houses being elected for one-year terms) through the 59th, which ended in 1880; the 60th Legislature, the first for which both chambers were elected for two-year terms, was in session from 1881 thru 1882 and every Maine Legislature from then on has, therefore, been numbered on such a biennial basis). 30 August 2007: As a cost-cutting measure, Maine is considering canceling the state's 2008 primary elections. Maine spends about $300,000 every other year on primaries. If the primaries are eliminated, parties would select their candidates by caucus. Media article. 10 June 2008 Primary results from a media source. |
| President 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2008, 2012. Term Limit: No more than 2 4-year terms in a lifetime. Electors: 4 (The candidate receiving the greatest number of votes statewide receives 2 electors. The candidate receiving the greatest number of votes in each of the 2 Congressional Districts receives that district's elector.) | |||||
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Green | former Congressman Cynthia A. McKinney • Vice President: Rosa A. Clemente • FEC P80004930: $132,856 |
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• Vice President: Wayne Allyn Root Submitted petitions late, may take challenge in court. • FEC P80005580: $648,749 |
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Independent | Ralph Nader • Vice President: Matt Gonzalez • FEC P20000527: $2,434,472 |
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| U.S. Senate 6 year term. No Term Limit. 110th Senate Senate Electoral Classes | |||||
| Class 1 | Republican | Senator Olympia J. Snowe • First elected: 1994; re-elected 2000, 2006 [also served in U.S. House-elected: 1978, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992] • Seat up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012 |
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Republican | Senator Susan M. Collins • First elected: 1996; re-elected: 2002 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008 • Renominated - 10 June 2008 Primary |
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Democratic | Congressman Thomas H. "Tom" Allen • Congressman CD 1 • FEC S8ME00080: $4,658,179 |
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• FEC S8ME00106: $51,475 |
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• Filed with the FEC circa July 2008 • FEC S8ME00122: Financial report not available |
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Republican | Senator Susan M. Collins • FEC S6ME00159: $6,125,658 |
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Independent | Laurie Dobson • FEC S8ME00098: $14,262 |
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• 30 June 2008: The Maine Democratic Party is challenging Mr. Hoffman's candidacy petitions in Superior Court. A Maine Superior Court ruled in favor of Mr. Hoffman on 14 June but the Maine Supreme Judicial Court unanimously removed him on 28 July 2008. On 14 August 2008, Mr. Hoffman requested injunctive relief from the U.S. Supreme Court however on 20 August 2008 Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter turned down a request that would have given an independent candidate in Maine for the U.S. Senate a place on the General Election ballot. • FEC S8ME00114: $17,897 |
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| Governor 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2006, 2010. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms. GOVERNOR is the only Statewide elected officer, All Governors | |||||
| Democratic | Governor John Elias Baldacci • First elected: 2002; re-elected: 2006 • Chair up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010 • The current Governor is affected by a term limit and cannot run for re-election. • Open Chair - At term limit |
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| 110th U.S. House of Representatives 2 year term, Election Cycle 2006, 2008. No Term Limit. 110th House | |||||
| Partisan Composition (primary disposition): 2 Democratic (1 Open, 1 Renominated) | |||||
| CD 1 {map}  Open |
Democratic | Congressman Thomas H. "Tom" Allen • First elected: 1996 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008 • Open Seat - Candidate for Senate in 2008 |
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| ** Open Seat (no incumbent) ** | |||||
• FEC H8ME01138: $270,327 |
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• FEC H8ME01146: $660,471 |
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• FEC H8ME01153: $461,007 |
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• FEC H8ME01187: $117,131 |
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Democratic | former Senate Majority Leader Chellie M. "Hannah" Pingree • FEC H8ME01120: $1,595,133 |
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• FEC H8ME01161: $642,212 |
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• FEC H8ME01179: $386,905 |
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Republican | former state Senator Charles Edward "Charlie" Summers, Jr. • Currently deployed in Iraq • FEC H4ME01111: $289,370 |
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Independent | Peter Throumoulos | |||
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Democratic | Congressman Michael H. Michaud • First elected: 2002 • Seat up for election: Tuesday 4 November 2008 • Renominated - 10 June 2008 Primary |
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Democratic | Congressman Michael H. Michaud • FEC H2ME02097: $608,997 |
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Republican | Farmington Selectman John Newton Frary • FEC H8ME02128: $134,651 |
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Independent | Tom Mooney | |||
| Political Parties Parties appear in parenthesis and italics when a candidate receives the endorsement of a given Party and/or official sources indicate a candidate's association with a particular Party but only where the Party in question does not appear on the actual ballot as such. |