Is there a King-sized political summer for independents at the end of Maine's long season of Snowe?
Those who believe our two political parties are increasingly predictable, non-and-counter productive and rhetorically toxic may have reason to hope. The eyes of independents are on Maine and the Senate bid of former independent Governor Angus King, who's running to replace disgusted-with-the-partisanship, retiring moderate Republican Senator Olympia Snowe.
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