Includes bibliographical references.

"As Maine goes, so goes the nation" -- Finding the real Maines. -- Finding the real Maines: physical, political, demographic and psychographic -- Dimensions -- The wild, wild East -- Ethnicity matters -- Maine media -- Polling: the art and the science -- The history of modern Maine politics. -- The marvel of Margaret: the persistence of a modern political archetype -- The Muskie revolution -- The high tide of democratic aspirations -- The Cohen counter-revolution -- Maine's independent governors in myth and reality -- Voting patterns: six paradigms, or how "vote the way you shot" became "1/3, 1/3, 1/3" -- Campaigns and candidates: "as Maine goes . . ." -- Ballot measures and participatory democracy: "the sovereign right of the people to legislate" -- Additional topics. -- Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and the politics of nineteenth-century Maine -- Women of Maine -- The Bowdoin connection -- Visual depictions of Maine -- Primary research opportunities -- Best Maine politics axioms.

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