Maine · There is a history here
On a fair ballot, Maine sits within reach of a majority.
Maine has done this before. The movement here is dormant, not dead.
Maineadults in Maine would back independence when the question is asked the way a ballot asks it: calm, binary, and peaceful. That's about 49% of the state.
Even the understated abstract poll counts 210,000 (19%). How we get this number →
Organized here before
This is not new ground.
Maine has raised an organized independence movement before, in the recent past. It went quiet, which is not the same as gone. Most movements sit quiet for years, right up until they don't. The people who believed it then are still here, and it takes a handful of them to make it a movement again.
Maine, if it stood alone
largest economy on Earth
$99 billion, ahead of Luxembourg.
people
More than the whole of Fiji. A nation-sized population, governed from elsewhere.
seats in Congress
The other 531 are chosen by people who don't live here.
The only question that matters
Maine is already a nation in all but name.
If Maine were already a self-governing nation, with its own border, its own money, its own defense, everything two hundred other nations control, and the vote in front of you was not whether to leave, but whether to join the United States on the terms it offers today, would you vote yes?
Cast your vote
Maine chose its own path in 1820, walking out of Massachusetts to govern itself. That instinct never left. On a fair, plainly worded ballot, calm and binary and peaceful, about 49% of Maine adults would vote to leave the union. That is roughly 541,000 people, close to half the state.
The 49% is the honest number because it measures the real decision. A ballot is a yes or no put to you quietly, with no fight attached, and support for leaving runs about 30 points higher than the abstract poll once you frame it that way. Even that abstract YouGov question, the understated floor, already puts Maine at 19%. Adjust for how a vote is actually cast and Maine sits within reach of a majority.
Cast your vote
Count Me In, Maine
Add your name, and be one of the people who brings Maine's movement back.
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