MPBN Interviews Brewer for Report on Michaud Support in 1st District

Mark Brewer, a political science professor at the University of Maine, was interviewed for a Maine Public Broadcasting Network report, titled “Mike Michaud Courting Support of 1st District Voters.” Brewer said gubernatorial candidate Mike Michaud’s coming out could help him with more progressive voters in Maine’s 1st District, but it could hurt him in the conservative 2nd District. “It’s a more rural population,” Brewer says of Michaud’s home base. “It’s an older population. It’s a less educated population and all of those characteristics tend to correlate with being less supportive of same-sex marriage and other equality issues for homosexuals.” NPR also carried the report.