@failures art,
Maine has a habit of getting all wound up with a "kill em all" attitude, interspersed with a "lets get along" regime or two. They just went through an extreme "get along guy" so this is the rebound effect. In my land of Washington County, everybody is too busy trying to make a living to give a **** about AUgusta.
I like Maine alot. However, in the deep woods, it gets cold as ****. The reasonable climate runs in a 30 mile wide belt all along the coast from Kittery to Calais (about 300 miles along the seacoast). Anything inland from that line is in deep snow and very cold for most of 6 months starting now.