Every election year Mainers can count on a handful of desperate political campaigns that rely on confusion and deception in attempts to get our vote. Politicians running these campaigns know that many of us don’t pay close attention to every issue. We sometimes cast our votes based on our emotions and with minimal information – such as in the last two presidential elections. This year in Maine we seem to have more than the usual number of misleading and blatantly deceptive campaigns. Two in particular come to mind. Unfair bear campaign The Humane Society’s “Mainers for fair bear hunting” or…
