I currently am working at a local grocery store in rural Maine.
One of my coworkers, whom I'll call "Nancy", didn't vote last Tuesday.
Interestingly, just two weeks prior, she lost her eligibility for MaineCare. Her case worker at DHHS was pretty blunt about why - "You can blame Governor LePage", she told Nancy - referring to his decision to turn away federal health care funding for 70,000 working class Mainers.
So she had a personal reason to vote the bum out, so to speak, yet didn't go to the polls.
When she told me this on Wednesday, I asked her why. She said "I don't believe that the other guy (meaning Mike Michaud) would have fixed it."
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