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Maine’s Paul LePage to liven up local Senate race We suspect Gov. Charlie Baker won’t be around when Paul pays a visit. From SHNS’s Matt Murphy: “Controversial Maine Gov. Paul LePage will be the featured guest at a Waltham fundraiser for U.S. Senate candidate Geoff Diehl later this month. ... LePage, one of four Republican governors in New England, has spent a turbulent eight years in office, frequently quarreling with lawmakers in his own state and getting into a verbal dust-up with the mayor of Lawrence when he blamed blacks and Hispanics from that mill city for fueling the heroin and fentanyl epidemic in Maine.” SHNS (pay wall) Don't hang up: House advances bill banning robocalls We missed this one from the other day. From SHNS’s Colin Young at MetroWest Daily News: “Those calls offering free cruises, loan modifications, supposedly important information from the FBI and more could soon stop coming to your cellphone unless there is a real human making the call. Just as experts warn that robocalls and the scams they often peddle are becoming more pervasive, the Massachusetts House gave its initial approval last week to a bill (H 201) filed by Mattapoisett Rep. William Straus to ban all robocalls to mobile phones or other electronic devices.” MetroWest Daily News Extreme politics: They really don’t work Speaking of primary elections in general, the NYT reports, based on a study by Stanford researchers, that when either party, Republican or Democrat, nominates an extreme candidate — in a district where a more moderate candidate might have had a chance to win the primary — the extreme candidate usually performs worse in the general election. "Extreme candidates, the researchers say, may mobilize their party’s base — but they tend to activate their opponent’s base even more than their own, resulting in a net loss on turnout.”   NYT