were a handful of well-funded democratic candidate, many of them women, and jennifer what extent -- lextonas the first to come out as a top candidate last year, and a few others had the funding to get their foot in the door, their ads in the washington, d.c. media market, which is expensive. it ended up being a relatively competitive race, but it was unclear if an elected official would have the advantage here, especially because she was the only top-tier elected official in the democratic primary. south carolina, virginia, nevada, and main holding primary elections yesterday erie in is leaving lepage that position, so there will be an open governorship. why is the main governor's race government race so interesting this year? guest: this year their ballot is reformatted, so voters can rank their first, second, third choice for candidates instead of just choosing one. thee hopes this will make final outcome more representative of voter interest , and it was a question on the ballot last night whether maine would continue to use this. it seems to be passing at this point. again, it is a new

were a handful of well-funded democratic candidate, many of them women, and jennifer what extent -- lexton was the first to come out as a top candidate last year, and a few others had the funding to get their foot in the door, their ads in the washington, d.c. media market, which is expensive. it ended up being a relatively competitive race, but it was unclear if an elected official would have the advantage here, especially because she was the only top-tier elected official in the democratic primary. south carolina, virginia, nevada, and main holding primary elections yesterday erie in is leaving lepage that position, so there will be an open governorship. why is the main governor's race government race so interesting this year? guest: this year their ballot is reformatted, so voters can rank their first, second, third choice for candidates instead of just choosing one. thee hopes this will make final outcome more representative of voter interest , and it was a question on the ballot last night whether maine would continue to use this. it seems to be passing at this point. again, it is a n