Election
US Senate election
The 2000 United States Senate election in Maine was held November 7, 2000. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe was re-elected to a second term, defeating Democratic candidate Mark Lawrence.
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The 2000 United States Senate election in Maine was held November 7, 2000. Republican incumbent Olympia Snowe was re-elected to a second term in a landslide over Democratic state senator Mark Lawrence.
Snowe, a popular moderate incumbent, outpolled and outspent Lawrence.
The two candidates agreed to debate on October 15 and 25.
Snowe would defeat Lawrence in a landslide, carrying all but five municipalities in the state: Lawrence's hometown of Kittery, the heavily Democratic border towns of Madawaska and Grand Isle, and the state's two Indian reservations.
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