re: #19 Sir John Barron

Is this nutball term-limited? I can only hope so for the good people of Maine.

Yes, he is.

That said, the reason he got reëlected is because of Maine’s gubernatorial electoral system: It awards the governorship to the person who takes the largest percentage of the vote, not an absolute majority.

In the case of their last election, the Democratic candidate Michael Michaud wound up with an independent challenger, who sucked off a significant fraction of the Democratic vote (not a Sanders-type, simply a person railing about two-party politics). Thus, LePage slipped in with a plurality, but not a majority.