Maine

Though the Maine Legislature passed legislation to allow same-sex marriage, residents voted against the bill in a ballot measure on election day by a margin of 53 to 47 percent. The Catholic church was a major funder of the forces opposed to same-sex marriage, and as MPR’s Tom Scheck notes, Minnesota Catholic were among those [...]

Maine Governor John E. Baldacci signed into law on Wednesday a bill that legalizes same-sex marriage in that state. Maine will become the fifth state to legalize same-sex marriage, along with Iowa, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Vermont. It’s the second to do so through a legislative effort as opposed to the courts.

After abandoning Michigan partly on the grounds of putting more resources into Midwestern neighbors like Wisconsin and Minnesota, the McCain campaign is now pulling up stakes in Wisconsin too — and, according to the AP, Maine. Writes Jim Kuhnhenn, “The party’s independent ad operation is doubling its budget to about $10 million and focusing on [...]