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It wasn't really a huge deal when Maine changed its method of assigning its electoral votes in a presidential election.

They did it. Well, mostly because one guy was so knowledgeable and nobody else in the main

legislature could keep up with him. No one can match his detailed research and

no one could say no. And it didn't hurt that what he was proposing

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LBJ and the Democratic Convention of 1968. Remember to subscribe to the show

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audience and also if you like the show tell someone about it guys thanks. Glenn Starbird was kind of an interesting fellow a Democrat from Kingman Township Maine about 70 miles north of Bangor. This would put him in Maine's

second congressional district, which will become important a little bit later. And he was a mill worker at the Madawamke-Forster manufacturing plant.

Forster was a company that had several mills across Maine.

This was one of them. There he made with others toothpicks and clothes pins.

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