this time eliot cutler is back in the race.ut this time the democratic candidate has a better chance of winning. at least that's what the polls look like. a new poll shows democrat mike michaud leading by a single point. 43 points. the independent eliot cutler is only drawing 11% of the vote now. but if this were a two-way race and a race just between the republican and democrat, then democrat mike michaud is already ahead by four. half the people who say they'd vote for the independent guy in a three-way race say if it happened to end up being just the two-way competition, they would vote for the democrat. so that would be enough probably to turf out paul lepage. so same dynamic at work here. the independent in maine, eliot cutler's campaign says he'll not quit the race no matter what. he doesn't view himself as a spoiler. he did finish a very close second in 2010. but in politics, nobody ever says they'll quit the race until they quit the race. independents and democrats have decided ed td to pull an the se of the tug-of-war