(Bangor, ME). September 11, 2009. For Immediate Release. Hammer Campaign Launches Maine Only Social Network Maine - The Way Life Should Be integrated into campaign Barack Obama, as a candidate for President, competing against the more established Hillary Clinton and a well known field of individuals, emerged victorious in no small part because he was able to effectively use the Internet to raise large sums of money in smaller amounts and, importantly, empower ordinary Americans to become proactively empowered in the political process. In particular, his MyBarackObama.com provided new tools, well integrated and easy to use, providing voters and volunteers greater power and reach ...
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See also: Steven Rowe - Cases of CYA? As you can see from the link above, Steven Rowe has carefully crafted a reputation for fighting for the "little guy or gal" or the average Mainer. Well, who is contributing to his campaign so far? See the complete details for yourself: http://www.mainecampaignfinance.com/netCrystalReports/CandidateCombinedReport.aspx?Params=72480;July%202009%20Pre-Election%20Semiannual;YNYYYYYYY&GUID=public&Year=2010&MCEA=0 In the just over one month period from when Steven filed his candidacy and when he filed his first (and thus far only due) campaign report, this is how it breaks down (totals tallied rather quickly): Contributors: Attorneys: 78 Executives (President, CEO, VP, Director, Executive Director, Administrator): 28 State of Maine Employee/Legislator/Congressional Office ...
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Women, Men and Maine By Alex Hammer Let's see if I can articulate this adequately. Here goes. Question: How well can and do women and men get along in regard to a gender gap? How about Republicans and Democrats and a political gap? If women and men can, as a few examples related to relationship or romantic interest, date, marry, raise families, live under one roof sanely you would think - if a gender gap can be bridged - that Republicans and Democrats could, theoretically at least, come to some kind of productive solutions together on say, tax reform, that would not necessitate constant recriminations across the aisle for ...
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How Maine Failed By Alex Hammer Maine is still a great state . But we've failed. Let's be honest about that. When I was a kid (I turn 44 this month) I remember a single KMart in my area but the big box retailer phenomenon in Maine was, as far as I could tell, non-existent. I am very pro-business but I believe that Maine has had its economy dominated, and lifestyle shaped, by outside money interests because Maine, as a state, has been unable to successfully marshal together its inherent and actualized resources to more effectively shape its own destiny. So we've had our ...
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Alex Note: I did not include the general daily newspapers websites, nor blogs associated with those daily newspaper sites, nor sites that are part of larger sites outside Maine. 1. As Maine Goes http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/asmainegoes.com Traffic Rank: 726,241 2. Magic City Morning Star http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/magic-city-news.com Traffic Rank: 1,092,609 3. Augusta Insider http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/augustainsider.us Traffic Rank: 1,677,217 4. The Maine View http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/maineview.blogspot.com Traffic Rank: 1,765,664 5. Mainepolitics.net http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/mainepolitics.net Traffic Rank: 1,892,711 6. Dirigo Blue http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dirigoblue.com Traffic Rank: 1,937,213 7. PineTreePolitics.com http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/pinetreepolitics.com 3,407,039
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