by Susan Cover, Darren Fishell and Meg Robbins | October 25, 2020
Every day when she gets home from work, Sharon Houle is greeted by five or six pieces of oversized cardstock trying to convince her how to vote. She constantly changes the radio in her car to avoid political advertisements. She records most of her television shows so...
by Susan Cover | October 25, 2020
Dale Crafts was 39 years old and selling cars with his brother in the late 1990s when he decided to volunteer for a campaign to overturn a gay-rights law that would have prohibited discrimination based on a person’s sexual orientation. He made phone calls to voters...
by John Blodgett | July 8, 2020
Bruce Poliquin, the former congressman from Maine, said he was asked by state and national Republican leaders to try and reclaim his seat from first-term Democratic representative Jared Golden in what would have been a rematch of their 2018 race. He declined. Then...
by Darren Fishell | June 4, 2020
Editor’s Note: This story was updated on June 25, 2020 with a video tutorial to help people use these interactive graphics. Mainers are facing a historic congressional election season. In November, voters will decide whether to keep Sen. Susan Collins — the...