Seal of Sen. Susan Collins’s Trumpian heartland, Aroostook County, land of potatoes and moose.
Children gathering potatoes on a large farm in Aroostook County, 1940. Schools did not open until the potatoes were harvested.
— Photo by Jack Delano.
From Robert Whitcomb’s “Digital Diary,’’ in GoLocal24.com
Perhaps the most-watched political event in New England in this political cycle was Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins’s re-election victory over Maine House Speaker Sarah Gideon, a Democrat, which didn’t surprise me. Senator Collins, a cynic with very plastic principles, or perhaps none at all (recalling her deeply immoral Senate leader, Mitch McConnell, for whom money and power are all), won because she has provided very good constituent services and had deep support in the Trumpian northern part of the state, especially Aroostook County, where she’s from.
Her victory will help ensure that a President Biden will have a tough time getting his judicial and other nominees confirmed and make it more difficult for New England, as a region, if not Maine, to get its fair share of federal programs.
