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The state of Maine entered the union by virtue of a compromise — the Missouri Compromise of 1820.

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Since then, Maine has been a pocket of political moderation and political flexibility, swinging left to right, and back again. In November's election, Maine was peak Maine, the only U.S. state to vote for a president from one party while electing a senator from another. At a time when "polarized" doesn't paint the depth of division in the country, we looked north and consulted Maine's deceptively powerful senator, Angus King, a registered independent, beholden to neither major party, and, at age 76, holding no ambition of higher office.

His colleagues see him as a truth teller and voice of reason.

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And perhaps, we can turn to him as a guide for repairing the tattered fabric of both the United States Senate and the country at large.

Who's Angus King? He isn't the more prominent of the two senators from his state (that's Susan Collins). He isn't the more prominent of the two indep Susan Collins VAL