Poll: Clinton leads Trump in Maine, but race tied in 2nd District

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Source: Bangor Daily News

Democratic presumptive presidential nominee Hillary Clinton led Republican Donald Trump in a new Maine poll from the Portland Press Herald, but both are deeply unpopular and Trump is within striking distance in the state’s northern half.

The poll doesn’t tell us much new about the 2016 race for the White House in Maine: Public sentiment, as measured by the new poll, barely moved since another March poll, but while the Democrat should be favored, Trump can’t be counted out to win at least one of the state’s four Electoral College votes.

Maine allocates two Electoral College votes to the overall winner and one each for the candidate who receives the most votes in each congressional district. A candidate who loses Maine’s overall vote could walk away with one Electoral College vote if he or she garnered a majority in one of the two congressional districts although that has never happened.

In the more rural and conservative 2nd Congressional District, it appears Trump has an opening this year.

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Read more: http://stateandcapitol.bangordailynews.com/2016/06/25/poll-clinton-leads-trump-in-maine-but-race-tied-in-2nd-district/

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1. 'As Maine goes . . .'

[No Vested Interest]

2. Ha! Is it the 2nd District that elected the hateful Maine Governor LePage?

What's up with that?

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3. k

[mainer]

4. Northern district: white, rural, struggling

Trump's demographic.

Southern Maine is far more ethnically diverse and liberal.

[RBInMaine]

5. They will vote for Republicans who do NOTHING for the district. The population in the region is

collapsing. No young people stay there. The mills have closed. They offer little to nothing to get young people to locate there. They won't change. There is a chance to establish a national park there, and MANY up there don't want it. There is a chance to build a new highway through there. They don't want it. Beautiful places abound in the second district, but inland and up north they don't want to change, and way too many of them just keep voting for Republicans who do absolutely NOTHING for them. Pretty sad.

[jpak]

7. The Left-Behinds

All the smart ones left.

[RBInMaine]

6. In the end though, I think Trump will struggle because he's so nuts. Still, it'll be fairly close.