Boston Globe quotes Brewer in article about presidential race, electoral map

Mark Brewer, a political science professor at the University of Maine, was quoted in the Boston Globe article, “Trump-Clinton battle could upend electoral map.” A presidential campaign between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump could fundamentally shift the country’s political landscape, transforming party strongholds into swing states and leaving some political battlegrounds untouched by the candidates, according to the article. Brewer said Republican Trump could take advantage of the way Maine awards some of its electoral votes by congressional districts. Maine’s Second Congressional District, which includes the northern portion of the state, is currently represented by a Republican, the article states. “His message on trade and speaking to the white working class plays very well in that district,” Brewer said. “It is impossible for him to win the other district in the south, which has become more liberal, but it is not impossible for him to even take the whole state, but less likely.”