Baldacci could still pull off the election. As Biddeford’s representative Joanne Twomey, the maverick Democrat and waste-dump fighter who predicted the G-P mill’s demise (as well as the unacceptability of LD 1), says: “The trickle-down of George Bush has hurt people so much” that it’s possible that Baldacci, whom she considers a Republican, will be re-elected simply because he is not legally a Republican. Bowdoin’s pollster Chris Potholm of Bowdoin thinks Baldacci could win because a couple of Clean-Election-financed wild cards could greatly divide the vote. Green Independent Pat LaMarche and independent Representative Barbara Merrill are the most likely. And, says Potholm, “I don’t think he can go much lower.”
Maybe.
“An old man I met one day said to me that Baldacci was like the cow that always gave the perfect pail of milk, but every time she walked past it, she kicked it over,” says Pat LaMarche. “He says yes to everything and then doesn’t keep his promise.”
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