Maine
Electors: 4, pledged to Barack Obama and Joe Biden:
- Jill Duson of Portland, ME, elector for Maine's 1st congressional district.
- Samuel Shapiro of Waterville, ME, elector for Maine's 2nd congressional district.
- Robert O'Brien of Peaks Island, ME, at-large elector.
- Tracie Reed of Portland, ME, at-large elector.
Read more about this topic: List Of United States Presidential Electors, 2008
Famous quotes containing the word maine:
“I heard the dog-day locust here, and afterward on the carries, a sound which I had associated only with more open, if not settled countries. The area for locusts must be small in the Maine Woods.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It was a Maine lobster town—
each morning boatloads of hands
pushed off for granite
quarries on the islands.”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)
“We know of no scripture which records the pure benignity of the gods on a New England winter night. Their praises have never been sung, only their wrath deprecated. The best scripture, after all, records but a meagre faith. Its saints live reserved and austere. Let a brave, devout man spend the year in the woods of Maine or Labrador, and see if the Hebrew Scriptures speak adequately to his condition and experience.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)