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Your Vote 2014

For MPBN's Your Vote 2014 live election results, click here.MPBN’s elections compendium is brought to you by AARP, MEMIC and Lambert Coffin.Debates:Click here to watch the 1st Congressional District debateClick here to watch the 2nd Congressional District debateClick here to watch the Senate debateClick here to watch the gubernatorial debateResources:Gubernatorial Race: GridPaul LePage (R)Mike Michaud (D): Profile, Maine Calling interviewEliot Cutler (I): Maine Calling interviewSenate Race: GridSusan Collins (R): Profile, Maine Calling interviewShenna Bellows (D): Profile, Maine Calling interview1st District Congressional Race: GridChellie Pingree (D): Profile, Maine Calling interviewIsaac Misiuk (R): Profile, Maine Calling interviewRichard Murphy (I): Profile, Maine Calling interview2nd District Congressional Race: GridEmily Cain (D): Profile, Maine Calling interviewBruce Poliquin (R): Profile, Maine Calling interviewBlaine Richardson (I): Profile, Maine Calling interviewFor a list of referendum questions, click here.

Planned Parenthood to Spend $500K in Maine Races

Maine Public | By Associated Press

Published August 14, 2014 at 9:58 AM EDT

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) _ Planned Parenthood will spend at least $500,000 in support of Rep. Mike Michaud's Maine gubernatorial campaign and other races in which the group identifies reproductive rights as a key issue.

The organization says in a statement that the campaign is the most aggressive in its history in Maine and will include field operations and advertisements on television and online.

Maine Action Fund PAC Chairwoman Nicole Clegg says Planned Parenthood seeks to oppose "extreme politicians'' who want to roll back reproductive rights. She says Planned Parenthood supports Michaud because he has been an ally of the organization in Congress.

Michaud is a Democrat. The Republican LePage opposes abortion on a personal level, but has not introduced legislation limiting it.

An email to a LePage spokesman was not immediately returned.