Many political observers view the margin of error in opinion polls as the most important metric of a poll’s potential accuracy. This isn’t always the case. Often the question wording, voter screen, and weighting of the poll may be more important in understanding the survey than the MOE, which is almost always simply a measure of how many people were interviewed.

Chellie Pingree today launched her first ad of 2010, with a focus on small businesses.

The LePage campaign has announced that they're bringing on some outside help. Dan Demeritt will be joining their team as press secretary and "will be the campaign's initial point of contact for press inquiries."

Judging by LePage's recent series of outbursts and gaffes, I imagine that much of this job will involve repeating the phrase "what Mayor LePage meant to say was..."

The air war is heating up in the Maine gubernatorial race, with Paul LePage's campaign launching its first ad of the general election and Libby Mitchell's campaign airing its second.

In a story posted last night, Congressional Quarterly took a look at a potential primary challenge to Maine Senator Olympia Snowe in 2012.

The article has a fairly comprehensive roundup of potential threats to a fourth term for the senior senator and contains a paragraph that would seem almost ludicrous if it were written even a few months ago.

A new poll by Critical Insights in partnership with the MaineToday papers represents the final say on the first phase of the campaign for Maine governor.

A few days after his very bad day of media appearances across the state, Republican gubernatorial candidate Paul LePage went on the conservative Howie Carr Show and claimed that his innapropriate outbursts were in reaction to "someone" dropping the "f-bomb" on him. He also claimed that he had never himself swore.

Libby Mitchell's first TV ad of the general election may not be the most polished political commerical I've ever seen (there's a weird green screen thing going on in one shot and she blinks way too much) but it did manage to surprise me.

WGME 13 and their partner station FOX 23 picked up the video of Republican candidate Paul LePage cursing at a press conference that I posted yesterday and followed up with the candidate, getting him to admit that his press outings turned out to be an "absolute disaster."

Today's statewide tour by Paul LePage was supposed to launch his economic agenda. Instead it launched some serious questions about his temper and his candidacy.

In Augusta, LePage actually stormed out of his own press conference after being questioned about not paying property taxes by MPBN reporter A.J. Higgins. WMTW has the unbelievable footage.