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Doug Jones/Staff PhotographerCUMBERLAND COUNTY
(Some times have changed)
Baldwin: 1 p.m., West Baldwin Consolidated School
Cape Elizabeth: 12:30 p.m., Cape Elizabeth High School
Chebeague Island: 1 p.m., Chebeague Island Hall
Cumberland: 12:30 p.m., Cumberland Town Hall
Falmouth: 2 p.m., Falmouth High School
Freeport: 3:15 p.m., Freeport High School
Gorham: 1 p.m., Gorham High School Cafeteria
Gray: 1 p.m., Stimpson Hall
Long Island: 1 p.m., Long Island Community Library multipurpose room
New Gloucester: 2:30 p.m., Congregational Church in the Lower Village
North Yarmouth: 5 p.m., Wescustogo Hall
Portland: 2 p.m., Portland High School
Pownal: 1 p.m., Pownal Town Hall
Scarborough: 1 p.m., Scarborough High School Cafeteria
Sebago: 6 p.m., Sebago Town Hall
South Portland: 1 p.m., South Portland High School Beal Gym
Standish: 1 p.m., Standish Town Hall
Westbrook: 2 p.m., Westbrook High School
Windham: 2 p.m., Friends Church
Yarmouth: 3 p.m., Log Cabin on Main Street
YORK COUNTY
Acton: 4 p.m., Acton Town House
Arundel: 1:30 p.m., Arundel Fire Station Meeting Room
Berwick: 3 p.m., Berwick Town Hall
Biddeford: 12:30 p.m., Ross Center
Buxton, Hollis: 1 p.m., Buxton Town Hall
Dayton, Saco: 1 p.m., Fairfield School, Saco
Eliot: 2 p.m., Eliot Elementary School
Kennebunk, Kennebunkport: 1 p.m., Kennebunk High School Gym
Kittery: 5 p.m., Traip Academy Gym
Lebanon: 6 p.m., Lebanon Fire Station
Lyman: 1 p.m., Lyman Town Hall
North Berwick: 2 p.m., North Berwick Town Hall
Ogunquit: 3 p.m., Dunaway Center
Old Orchard Beach: 1:30 p.m., Loranger Middle School Cafeteria
Sanford: 1 p.m., Sanford Town Hall Annex
South Berwick: 2:30 p.m., South Berwick Town Hall Auditorium
Wells: 1 p.m., Wells Activity Center
York: 1 p.m., York High School Gym
CUMBERLAND COUNTY
Bridgton: 2 p.m., Municipal Office Building
Brunswick: 3 p.m., Brunswick Junior High School
Harpswell: 2 p.m., Harpswell Islands School
Raymond: 2 p.m., Raymond Public Safety Building
Casco: 4:30 p.m., Casco Fire Barn
Naples: 2 p.m., Naples Town Office
Harrison: 2 p.m., Harrison Fire Barn
Otisfield: 1 p.m., Otisfield Town Office
KNOX COUNTY
Appleton: 3 p.m., Appleton Town Hall
Camden: 1:30 p.m., Camden Opera House
Cushing: 2 p.m., Cushing Community Center
Friendship: 1 p.m., Friendship Town Office
Hope: 2 p.m., Hope Town Library
Matinicus Island: 1 p.m., Hoadley Home
North Haven: 4 p.m., North Haven Town Office
Owls Head: 2 p.m., Owls Head Community Center
Rockland: 2:30 p.m., Rockland Town Hall
Rockport: 1:30 p.m., Rockport Town Office
South Thomaston: 2 p.m., South Thomaston Town Office
St. George: 1 p.m., St. George Town Hall
Thomaston: 2 p.m., Watts Hall
Union: 1 p.m., Union Town Hall
Vinalhaven: 2 p.m., Washington School
Warren: 2 p.m., Warren Town Hall
Washington: 4 p.m., Bryant Room, Gibbs Library
LINCOLN COUNTY
Alna: 3:30 p.m., Wiscasset Middle School
Boothbay, Boothbay Harbor, Southport: 2:30 p.m., American Legion Post No. 36, Boothbay
Bremen, Bristol, Damariscotta, Edgecomb, Newcastle, Nobleboro, South Bristol: 1 p.m., Great Salt Bay School, Damariscotta Dresden, Wiscasset, Westport Island: 3:30 p.m., Wiscasset Middle School
Jefferson, Somerville, Whitefield: 2 p.m., Whitefield Elementary School
Waldoboro: 3 p.m., Miller Elementary School
SAGADAHOC COUNTY
Arrowsic: 1 p.m., Arrowsic Town Hall
Bath: 6 p.m., City Hall Auditorium
Bowdoin: 4 p.m., Bowdoinham Town Hall
Bowdoinham: 4 p.m., Bowdoinham Town Hall
Georgetown: 1:30 p.m., Georgetown School
Phippsburg: 2:30 p.m., Phippsburg Town Hall
Richmond: 4:30 p.m., Richmond Town Hall
Topsham: 5 p.m., Topsham Town Hall
West Bath: 2:30 p.m., West Bath Town Hall
Woolwich: 3 p.m., Woolwich Central School
YORK COUNTY
Alfred: 1 p.m., Alfred Elementary School
Hollis, Buxton: 1 p.m., Buxton Town Hall
Limington: 5:30 p.m., Limington Municipal Building
Limerick: 3 p.m., Limerick Municipal Building
Parsonsfield: 1:30 p.m., Parsonsfield Town Hall
Cornish: 12:30 p.m., Cornish Town Hall
Newfield: 1 p.m., Newfield Town Hall
Shapleigh: 1 p.m., Shapleigh Town Hall
Waterboro: 1 p.m., Waterboro Town Hall
"If you want a world-class change-maker and if you want somebody who will never forget you, you show up for her at the Maine caucus," Clinton told an estimated 1,700 people at the Portland Exposition Building.
Clinton's speech was heavy on policy and light on politics. He touted his wife's proposals on everything from health care to education to veterans while refraining from attacking Sen. Clinton's lone rival, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.
Clinton attacked and questioned Obama's qualifications last month before South Carolina's primary, but Thursday night he called him an "inspirational figure."
Bill Clinton's visit to Maine, which will be followed on Saturday by visits from his wife, his daughter, Chelsea, and Obama, underscores the competitiveness of the race for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.
Hillary Clinton and Obama are campaigning hard in the seven states that will hold primaries and caucuses from Saturday to Tuesday. They were virtually tied after Super Tuesday, when 24 states held caucuses and primaries.
Maine will be the only state in the nation holding a caucus on Sunday. Former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney won Maine's Republican Party straw poll last weekend, but dropped out of the race Thursday.
Clinton and Obama are not only vying to win the popular vote in Maine, they also are competing for delegates to the national convention. A candidate needs 2,025 delegates to win the nomination.
Clinton leads Obama 892 to 716, but that tally does not include the so-called super-delegates – members of Congress, governors and party officials who decide individually whom to support.
In Maine, Obama and Clinton will compete for 24 so-called pledged delegates, the electors who will cast ballots for the Democratic nominee in August at the party's convention in Denver. Voters who attend Sunday's caucuses will elect delegates to the Democratic state convention in May.
Sens. Clinton and Obama will make separate appearances in the state on Saturday. She will visit the University of Maine in Orono for a 9:30 a.m. appearance at the recreation center; at noon, doors will open at the Lewiston Memorial Armory for her 1:30 p.m. appearance. Obama will be at the Bangor Auditorium at 2:30 p.m.
Both campaigns began waging a spirited battle Thursday. Obama's aides sought to downplay expectations, while Clinton aimed to embrace the role of underdog by challenging Obama to a debate while they are in Maine. Clinton's campaign urged Obama to either debate or hold a joint town hall meeting on Saturday.
David Plouffe, Obama's campaign manager, declined Clinton's offer, telling reporters in a conference call Thursday that it was "sophomoric." Later in the day, the two candidates agreed to debate in Texas and Ohio, which hold primaries March 4.
In the same conference call, Plouffe said Clinton had an "advantage" in Maine because she had the institutional support of top party officials, including Gov. John Baldacci.
He also highlighted her win in Massachusetts' primary last Tuesday despite Obama's endorsement by Sens. Ted Kennedy and John Kerry.
Aides and surrogates from both campaigns are flooding the state. Both camps have 20 paid staffers working to organize supporters and get out the vote, organizers said.
Kennedy will campaign for Obama today in Portland and Lewiston, said Reid Cherlin, Obama's spokesman in the state. Kennedy will make public appearances at Seventy-Five State Street in Portland at 11 a.m. and at the Bates College chapel at 2 p.m.
Chelsea Clinton will campaign in the state, too, her father announced Thursday night, but campaign aides did not have any information about where...
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