To return to a not-very-consequential pre-election dispute I had with Mike Crowley, it’s worth observing that John McCain was nowhere near winning Maine’s second congressional district. The only county he carried was Piscataquis, consistently the state’s most right-wing, but also one with barely any residents (Baxter State Park constitutes a huge proportion of its land area so it’s not just rural, a big part of it is genuinely empty) — there were a bit over 9,000 votes in the county this time, and McCain got 51 percent of them.
In the District’s main population center, Penobscot County, McCain got exactly his national average and the same was true of Waldo County. In Hancock, Aroostock, Franklin, and Oxford counties he did worse than average, and in Washington County he slightly outperformed. ME-2, in short, isn’t the bluest spot on the map, but it’s more liberal than most places.
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