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The View From Here: Don’t expect much from divided government

Great achievements of the past have come when one party controls both houses of Congress and the presidency.

The election offers no clarity in the battle between moderates and progressives for the party’s soul.

COVID could make the longest presidential campaign ever last beyond Election Day.

As Susan Collins and Sara Gideon scrap for votes, the margin of victory in Greater Portland towns could decide the election.

Support for a giveaway to the rich changed the way some Collins supporters viewed their senator.

Politics, not public health, drives how people respond to the COVID crisis and yields predictable results.

Joe Biden delivered the address of his life, focusing a huge, diverse party on a common goal.

We need to find ways to hear the voices that have been silenced.

From a federal crackdown in Oregon to a secretive police intelligence unit in Maine, we are seeing counterterrorism tactics turned on the public.

It will be hard to win statewide with the Republican message of ‘God, life and guns.’