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There are some who continue to maintain that talking about politics over a meal, particularly a holiday meal, is bad form. A Pie with 232 Blueberries and 200 Cranberries usrjrey Your family may not notice that this pie reflects the new configuration of the House of Representatives after what was unequivocally a blue wave, so you'll need to subtly remind them by saying "This pie reflects the new configuration of the House of Representatives after what was unequivocally a blue wave." you should genially ask your family, as you casually knock the crumbling chimney of the home over. While other politicians are out dining at Trump Hotels with oil barons and Bane from Batman, AOC is at home making Instant Pot recipes and talking about policy. Traditionally, the president pardons both turkeys although one is low-key given a cabinet appointment, but Trump would sentence both turkeys to execution if he could. Duck Anadolu Agency Note: do not serve the Glamour Duck. Did the Glamour Duck take your job, Greg? Your family will say, "Who asked for this?" And you'll respond, "although the majority of the family did not want this dish, the menu was swayed by disproportionate representation and an influx of corporate money. I will not be holding a town hall to discuss this.

Portland Press Herald Remember when they used to say “All politics is local”? Forget about all politics being local — local politics isn’t even local anymore. And that’s what we saw in this year’s primaries in Maine. Unlike the 2010 primary, when Republicans ran an ideologically diverse group of seven candidates that included four moderates, there were only four candidates this year, all competing to be the next Paul LePage, who was Trump in Maine before Trumpism became a thing. In his Election Night victory speech he declared, “North, south, east and west, it’s about all of us, it’s about Mainers and we are going to take our state back!” It’s a strange thing for a Republican to say, when a two-term Republican governor lives in the Blaine House, and his party has controlled at least one body of the Legislature for six of the last eight years. But Moody later explained that he was talking about the out-of-state special interest groups that he says are behind referendum campaigns to increase school funding, bump up the minimum wage, expand Medicaid, legalize marijuana and introduce ranked-choice voting, which all received majority support from voters at the polls. Unlike Moody, she didn’t get more than 50 percent of the first-place votes in her primary, but she is going into the ranked-choice runoffs with a lead of about 5,000 votes. There are more women running for office this year than at any time in our history, both nationally and in Maine, and most of them are Democrats. Any Democrat would have a hard time in this governor’s race because the two parties will share the field with two independents, both former Democrats, and without the benefit of ranked-choice voting. But if there is going to be a Democratic governor in Maine next year, it won’t be because of their bond packages or their tax policies or any of the usual issues that dominate state campaigns.