Maine's toss-up 2nd District appears headed to a ranked-choice count

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Source: Washington Post

BANGOR, Maine — The toss-up race in Maine’s 2nd Congressional District appeared headed to a ranked-choice voting count early on Wednesday morning, with Assistant Maine House Majority Leader Jared Golden holding a slight lead over U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin.

Their campaign was the most expensive U.S. House race in Maine history, with the candidates and their allies spending more than $20 million on the race. As polls opened, the contest was expected to be a fulcrum over partisan control of the U.S. House of Representatives, but Democrats were projected to win the chamber on Tuesday without Golden’s help.

With 56 percent of precincts reporting to the Bangor Daily News on Wednesday morning, Golden of Lewiston had 46.4 percent of votes to 45.5 percent for Poliquin, a two-term Republican from Oakland who won the seat in 2014 after two decades of Democratic control.

On Wednesday morning, a hopeful Golden addressed a crowd of supporters at his election night party at the Franco Center in Lewiston, saying while there would be no immediate final result, his campaign is “winning it right now.”

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Read more: https://bangordailynews.com/2018/11/07/politics/maines-toss-up-2nd-district-appears-headed-to-a-ranked-choice-count/

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1. Yup, I thought this would happen.

Here's hoping the people who voted for the independents as their first choice picked Golden as their second choice.