Brewer quoted in The Daily Yonder report on 2nd District politics
Mark Brewer, a professor of political science at the University of Maine, was interviewed for an article in The Daily Yonder on the political climate in Maine’s 2nd District. This fall, three Democratic candidates will challenge incumbent U.S. Representative Bruce Poliquin for the district representative seat, according to the article. “Both parties think they can win that seat in November,” Brewer told The Daily Yonder. He spoke to the varied social and demographic factors in the geographically large district, which is mostly rural and white but whose residents represent a variety of perspectives. As a result, the district votes on different sides of the party line depending on the year and the individual race, the article states. “The most important thing is that yes, this is a swing district … Whoever wins this race has to be able to speak to voters at least to some degree in these very different parts of this state,” Brewer said.