The Portland Press Herald is releasing poll results Monday that show Maine is divided over welfare. The survey, conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center, found 46 percent of those asked believe most people need state welfare benefits, but 41 percent said most people don't need the benefits they get. Forty-six percent of those polled also said giving people welfare benefits does more harm than good; 43 percent said the reverse.
On the subject of Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act, 39 percent of those polled said Gov. Paul LePage's veto of Medicaid expansion won't affect whether they vote for the governor's re-election. Twenty-eight percent told the pollsters they'd be more likely to vote for LePage, but 31 percent said the Medicaid expansion veto made it less likely they'd vote for LePage.
The poll surveyed 625 adults, by both landline phones and cellphones. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.9 percent.
