John Oliver asks how, exactly, did Maine Gov. Paul LePage ever get elected?

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John Oliver has a question for Maine. How exactly did Republican Gov. Paul LePage get elected (twice)?

Oliver’s weekly late-night show, Last Week Tonight, featured the “brash, Tea Party-backed conservative” Sunday in a segment called “People Who Somehow Got Elected.”

Fair warning: The audio here is NSFW, so headphones are advisable.

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[HuckleB]

1. K & R!

The sad reality is that he resembles far too many of the anti-science, pro-fear mongering folks I've tried to engage with today.

YIKES!

[jmowreader]

2. Two words: Eliot Cutler

In 2006, independent candidate Eliot Cutler split the non-LePage vote allowing LePage to take office with only about 40 percent of the vote.

In 2010, he fucking did it again.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

3. Yup... pretty much

Makes me wonder if that was a setup.

[jmowreader]

4. A lot of people think the same thing

[KamaAina]

5. In 2010 (the first one), Cutler was well ahead of the Dem

if anyone should have dropped out, it should have been the Dem.