{"id":21334,"date":"2010-06-17T08:10:19","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T08:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/tea-party-republican-lepage-way-ahead-in-race-for-maine-governor\/"},"modified":"2010-06-17T08:10:19","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T08:10:19","slug":"tea-party-republican-lepage-way-ahead-in-race-for-maine-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/tea-party-republican-lepage-way-ahead-in-race-for-maine-governor.php","title":{"rendered":"Tea Party Republican LePage way ahead in race for Maine Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Zm6JXvXXze4\/TBbnRwlldWI\/AAAAAAAAL1o\/cjjcpe_xw8Y\/s1600\/PaulLePageME.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/cf3db_PaulLePageME.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><strong>43% to 36% over Democrat<\/strong><\/p><p>Paul LePage, Mayor of Waterville, somewhat unexpectedly won the GOP nomination for Governor last week.  A solid Tea Partier with strong libertarian ties, LePage is now comfortably ahead in the polls.<\/p><p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/elections\/election_2010\/election_2010_governor_elections\/maine\/election_2010_maine_governor\">Rasmussen<\/a>:<\/p><blockquote><p>Republican Paul LePage is the top vote getter in the race for governor of Maine following the winnowing down of the crowded contest in Tuesday&rsquo;s primaries. <\/p><p>The first Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of the race finds LePage earning the support of 43% of Likely Voters in the state, while Democrat Libby Mitchell picks up 36% of the vote. Democrat-turned-independent Eliot Cutler trails with seven percent (7%). Fourteen percent (14%) are undecided.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>LePage was enthusiastically endorsed by the Republican Liberty Caucus prior to the primary. Some Maine Republican political sites have even labeled him a \"libertarian Republican.\"<\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7828681836623105417-2463040301682716150?l=www.libertarianrepublican.net\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>43% to 36% over DemocratPaul LePage, Mayor of Waterville, somewhat unexpectedly won the GOP nomination for Governor last week. A solid Tea Partier with strong libertarian ties, LePage is now comfortably ahead in the polls.From Rasmussen:Republican Paul LePage is the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/tea-party-republican-lepage-way-ahead-in-race-for-maine-governor.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}