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Democrat · Maine House, district 93

Serving since Dec 3, 2024ME 2025–26 session

Portrait of Julie McCabe, rendered as a two-tone print
Official portrait
$970
in itemized contributions in the 2026 cycle, in the bottom 5% of State House Democrats

The median for State House Democrats is $40.4K. Ranks 2008th of 2,082, where 1st raised the most. 13 itemized donors.

Itemized contributions reported to the state in the 2026 cycle, ranked among State House Democrats. State filings leave small gifts out, and totals depend on whether the seat is up this cycle.

At a glance

6 measures against State House Democrats. 34% of McCabe’s itemized money in the 2026 cycle came from Maine, in the bottom tenth of State House Democrats. 80% of the 5 bills McCabe sponsored got out of committee, in the top quarter of the Maine House.

The measures on which McCabe sits furthest from the middle of State House Democrats, each against the same group, with the CSIP score when there is one. Every number is explained in its own section below.

Itemized, 2026

$970

State House Democrats’ median $40.4K · ranks 2008th of 2,082

From Maine, 2026

34%

Of itemized individual dollars · ranks 1873rd of 1,983 State House Democrats

Out of committee

80%

Maine House average 64% · ranks 22nd of 96

Party unity

98.1%

Maine House average 95.9% · ranks 36th of 149 · 21 votes against the majority of Maine House Democrats

Attendance

99.3%

Maine House average 94.9% · ranks 42nd of 149 · 804 roll calls

CSIP ideology

−0.74

More liberal than 67% of State House Democrats · ± 0.10

Peer group: State House Democrats. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; the thick bar is McCabe, the thin grey bar the peer average. The headline is the measure on which McCabe is most unusual among peers (Methods, §08).

Back to topNext: What politicians say

What McCabe says

No statements for the ME 2025–26 session.No classified statements (posts, press releases, newsletters, floor speeches) in this time window.

Back to topNext: Policy

Policy

No policy statements for the ME 2025–26 session.No classified statements (posts, press releases, newsletters, floor speeches) in this time window.

Back to topNext: Ideology

Ideology

McCabe sits at −0.74 on the CSIP scale, left of 0, more liberal than 67% of State House Democrats. Approximate range −0.84 to −0.63, which understates the uncertainty; from 22 donors and 298 roll calls.

CSIP, the lab’s Common-Space Ideal Point, places every official, federal and state, on one left–right scale, estimated from roll-call votes, who gives money to whom, and the text of statements. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it; 0 is the centre of the scale, not a definition of “moderate”.

−0.74

CSIP ideal point

Approximate range −0.84 to −0.63. From 22 donors and 298 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.

← More liberalMore conservative →0McCabe −0.7State House Democrats −0.6Maine House −0.3All State House +0.1

The outlined dot is McCabe, coloured by its side of 0 (blue left, red right, deeper further out); the bar through it is the approximate range (±1.96 standard errors), which understates the uncertainty; the grey ticks below are the medians of McCabe’s groups. 0 is the centre of the scale, not “moderate” by definition.

What this means, and what it doesn’t

The score summarises how an official votes, who funds them and how they talk, relative to everyone else. It does not grade positions as good or bad, and two officials with the same score can differ on any single issue. The ± range is 1.96 standard errors, which understates the uncertainty: scores whose ranges overlap may not differ at all, and even scores whose ranges do not overlap may not differ.

Where McCabe sits

Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale

−2.0−1.00.0+1.0+2.0← More liberalMore conservative →State House Democratsmedian −0.6McCabe −0.7Maine Housemedian −0.3All State Housemedian +0.1
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McCabe's CSIP score of −0.74 placed against State House Democrats, Maine House, All State House.
GroupOfficialsMedianShare left of McCabe
State House Democrats2392−0.633%
Maine House152−0.39%
All State House5324+0.115%
How to read the strips

Every small dot is one official on the same scale, coloured by its own score (blue left of 0, red right of 0, grey at 0, deeper further out) and spread up and down only to keep dots apart; where a group is crowded the dots overlap, and darker patches mean more officials. The large outlined dot is McCabe in every row; the rule is each group’s median. The table under the figure gives the share of each group to the left of McCabe.

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Money

McCabe reported $970 in the 2026 cycle, 2.4% of the State House Democrats’ median of $40.4K. State filings report no small-donation total. 34% of itemized individual money came from Maine.

Campaign money from state campaign-finance filings, as aggregates only; the lab never shows an individual donor. Campaigns must report by name every person who gives them more than $200 in a cycle (“itemized”); smaller gifts are reported only as one total (“unitemized”), so donor counts, donor states, employers and occupations describe itemized donors only. State filings report no small-gift total, so these figures add up itemized contributions only.

Election cycle
$970

itemized in the 2026 cycle

From 13 itemized donors. State House Democrats’ median $40.4K.

Where the money came from

Each square is one percent of itemized contributions in the 2026 cycle.

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Sources of McCabe's money, 2026 cycle, one square per percent
SourceAmountShare
Individuals (itemized)$970100.0%
What this means, and what it doesn’t

Totals say how much a campaign took in, not how it was spent, and they rise sharply when a seat is up for election; compare cycles with that in mind.

Receipts by cycle

Itemized contributions, 2024 to 2026. The grey line is the State House Democrats’ median for 2026.

2024 cycle: $1,000$1,00020242026 cycle: $970$9702026State House Democrats median $40.4K
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McCabe's receipts by cycle against the 2026 State House Democrats median.
ItemValue
2024 cycle$1,000
2026 cycle$970

Top donor states, 2026

Itemized contributions by donor state. 34% came from Maine.

  1. Maine$325
  2. Maryland$300
  3. Illinois$195
  4. New York$100
  5. New Jersey$50

Small donations

State filings report no total for small gifts.

Not reported in state filings.

Where itemized donors live

Individuals who gave more than $200, by donor state

Alaska: no dataAKMaine: $325MEVermont: no dataVTNew Hampshire: no dataNHWashington: no dataWAIdaho: no dataIDMontana: no dataMTNorth Dakota: no dataNDMinnesota: no dataMNIllinois: $195ILWisconsin: no dataWIMichigan: no dataMINew York: $100NYRhode Island: no dataRIMassachusetts: no dataMAOregon: no dataORNevada: no dataNVWyoming: no dataWYSouth Dakota: no dataSDIowa: no dataIAIndiana: no dataINOhio: no dataOHPennsylvania: no dataPANew Jersey: $50NJConnecticut: no dataCTCalifornia: no dataCAUtah: no dataUTColorado: no dataCONebraska: no dataNEMissouri: no dataMOKentucky: no dataKYWest Virginia: no dataWVVirginia: no dataVAMaryland: $300MDDelaware: no dataDEArizona: no dataAZNew Mexico: no dataNMKansas: no dataKSArkansas: no dataARTennessee: no dataTNNorth Carolina: no dataNCSouth Carolina: no dataSCDistrict of Columbia: no dataDCOklahoma: no dataOKLouisiana: no dataLAMississippi: no dataMSAlabama: no dataALGeorgia: no dataGAHawaii: no dataHITexas: no dataTXFlorida: no dataFL
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McCabe's itemized individual contributions by donor state, 2026 cycle
StateValue
Maine$325
Maryland$300
Illinois$195
New York$100
New Jersey$50
AlaskaNo data
VermontNo data
New HampshireNo data
WashingtonNo data
IdahoNo data
MontanaNo data
North DakotaNo data
MinnesotaNo data
WisconsinNo data
MichiganNo data
Rhode IslandNo data
MassachusettsNo data
OregonNo data
NevadaNo data
WyomingNo data
South DakotaNo data
IowaNo data
IndianaNo data
OhioNo data
PennsylvaniaNo data
ConnecticutNo data
CaliforniaNo data
UtahNo data
ColoradoNo data
NebraskaNo data
MissouriNo data
KentuckyNo data
West VirginiaNo data
VirginiaNo data
DelawareNo data
ArizonaNo data
New MexicoNo data
KansasNo data
ArkansasNo data
TennesseeNo data
North CarolinaNo data
South CarolinaNo data
District of ColumbiaNo data
OklahomaNo data
LouisianaNo data
MississippiNo data
AlabamaNo data
GeorgiaNo data
HawaiiNo data
TexasNo data
FloridaNo data
13

itemized donors

People who gave more than $200

34%

from Maine

Of itemized individual dollars

How to read the map

Every state the same size. Darker states gave more itemized money; hatched states had no itemized donors; the outlined state is Maine. Gifts of $200 or less carry no address and are left out.

Top donor occupations

Itemized, 2026 cycle.

  1. RETIRED$820 11 donors

Top committees

PAC and committee contributions, 2026 cycle.

No committee contributions this cycle.

Top employers

Itemized, 2026 cycle.

No employers reported.

Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.

Back to topNext: Votes

Votes

McCabe voted with the majority of Maine House Democrats on 98.1% of party-line votes and missed 0.6% of 804 roll calls. Maine House on average: 95.9% party unity, 94.9% attendance. Across all roll calls, McCabe voted against the majority of Maine House Democrats 21 times.

804 roll calls McCabe could vote on in the ME 2025–26 session, compared with Maine House. Attendance is the share with a vote recorded. Party unity counts only party-line roll calls, where most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides, and is the share of those where McCabe voted with the majority of Maine House Democrats. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.

21

votes against the majority of Maine House Democrats

Party unity 98.1%, Maine House average 95.9%, ranks 36th of 149. 804 roll calls in the ME 2025–26 session.

Attendance and party unity

The thick bar is McCabe, the thin grey bar the Maine House average. The scale runs from 80% to 100% to show the gap.

80%100%
McCabe
Peers
Rank
Attendance
99.3%
94.9%
42nd of 149
Party unity
98.1%
95.9%
36th of 149
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McCabe's attendance and party unity against Maine House.
RowMcCabePeers
Attendance99.3%94.9%
Party unity98.1%95.9%
What this means, and what it doesn’t

A missed roll call has many causes, from illness to campaigning, so attendance says how often, not why. A vote against the majority can be on procedure as well as substance, and many fall on roll calls where both parties split; the key votes below show the ones that decided something.

Key votes

25 roll calls the lab flagged as key in the ME 2025–26 session

Key votes
Party split (yea–nay)Why it’s key
Apr 29, 2026
LD 307
An Act Regarding Energy, Utilities And Technology
reconsideration-veto
YeaWith majorityfailD 64–6 · R 7–59 · I 1–0Democrats 64 yea, 6 nay; Republicans 7 yea, 59 nay; Independents 1 yea, 0 nayclose vote · party crossover
Apr 29, 2026
LD 307
An Act Regarding Energy, Utilities And Technology
Move the Previous Question
NayWith majorityfailD 11–57 · R 54–12 · I 0–1Democrats 11 yea, 57 nay; Republicans 54 yea, 12 nay; Independents 0 yea, 1 nayclose vote · party crossover
Apr 14, 2026
LD 555
An Act To Create A Separate Department Of Child And Family Services
Acc Maj Ought Not to Pass Rep
YeaWith majoritypassD 71–4 · R 2–67 · I 2–1Democrats 71 yea, 4 nay; Republicans 2 yea, 67 nay; Independents 2 yea, 1 nayclose vote
Apr 14, 2026
LD 299
An Act To Support Investment In Agriculture
Enactment - Bond Issue
YeaWith majorityfailD 74–1 · R 13–54 · I 3–0Democrats 74 yea, 1 nay; Republicans 13 yea, 54 nay; Independents 3 yea, 0 nayparty crossover
Apr 14, 2026
LD 127
An Act To Strengthen Legislative Oversight Of Government Agencies And Programs By Reaffirming The Legislature'S Access To Confidential Records
suspension of house rule 515
NayWith majorityfailD 6–69 · R 67–0 · I 1–2Democrats 6 yea, 69 nay; Republicans 67 yea, 0 nay; Independents 1 yea, 2 nayclose vote
How key votes are chosen

Automatically: a final-passage or override vote where the measure became law, the margin was under 10%, at least 10% of either party voted against its majority, or the bill was among the 25 most mentioned in officials’ own statements. Up to 25 per window, most recent first; five are shown. Bars show yea on the left, nay on the right, per party.

Votes most often with

The colleagues who voted the same way as McCabe most often

  1. Deqa DhalacD794 shared votes97%
  2. Valli GeigerD775 shared votes97%
  3. Flavia DeBritoD762 shared votes97%
  4. Charles SkoldD719 shared votes97%
  5. Yusuf YusufD750 shared votes97%

Votes least often with

The colleagues who voted the same way as McCabe least often

  1. Marygrace CiminoR799 shared votes7.9%
  2. Barbara BagshawR796 shared votes7.9%
  3. Reagan PaulR775 shared votes8.1%
  4. Kim HagganR796 shared votes8.2%
  5. Mike LanceR753 shared votes8.6%
How to read the agreement lists

The share of roll calls both members voted on where they voted the same way, among colleagues sharing at least 50 such votes. High agreement with members of the other party is common on routine votes.

Full voting record

ME 2025–26 session, loads in batches

Back to topNext: Legislation

Legislation

McCabe sponsored 5 bills in the ME 2025–26 session; 1 became law. Cosponsored 50 others. 80% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Maine House average 64%; 22nd of 96).

The bills McCabe sponsored and cosponsored in the ME 2025–26 session, from the official bill records, and how far each got: introduced, referred to or acted on in committee, passed one chamber, passed both, became law. A bill counts at every stage it has reached, so the blocks only shrink to the right.

Bills by stage

Counts for the ME 2025–26 session

Sponsored5 billsSponsored, Introduced: 55Sponsored, In committee: 55Sponsored, Passed one chamber: 44Sponsored, Passed both chambers: 22Sponsored, Became law: 11Cosponsored50 billsCosponsored, Introduced: 5050Cosponsored, In committee: 5050Cosponsored, Passed one chamber: 3434Cosponsored, Passed both chambers: 2727Cosponsored, Became law: 1818IntroducedIncommitteePassed onechamberPassed bothchambersBecamelaw
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Bills McCabe sponsored and cosponsored, by furthest stage reached
RoleIntroducedIn committeePassed one chamberPassed both chambersBecame law
Sponsored55421
Cosponsored5050342718
How to read the blocks

Ink blocks are bills McCabe sponsored, ochre blocks bills McCabe cosponsored; the figure above each block is the count. Most bills in any legislature never leave committee, so a short staircase is the norm.

80%

of sponsored bills got out of committee

Maine House average 64%. Ranks 22nd of 96.

Cosponsorship partners

Colleagues who most often cosponsor with McCabe, by number of shared bills in the ME 2025–26 session; the square shows their party.

  1. Kristen Cloutier21
  2. Annie Graham17
  3. Mana Abdi17
  4. Flavia DeBrito16
  5. Dan Shagoury16
What this means, and what it doesn’t

The score is the share of sponsored bills that a committee reported out or a chamber passed, with at least 5 sponsored bills, ranked within the peer group. Members of the majority party and committee chairs move more bills, so the rank reflects position in the chamber as well as effort. Cosponsorship partners are the five colleagues who share the most of McCabe’s bills; the toggle shows more.

Bill list

Sponsored and cosponsored, with status and policy area; five are shown, the toggle shows the rest

Bills sponsored and cosponsored
LD 2117Resolve, Directing The Department Of Health And Human Services To Amend Its Rule Chapter 101: Mainecare Benefits Manual, Chapter Ii, Section 21, Home And Community Benefits For Members With Intellectual Disabilities Or Autism Spectrum DisorderCosponsorApr 7, 2026Passed one chamberHealth(model)Died in Possession of the Senate when the Legislature adjourned Sine Die and was PLACED IN THE LEGISLATIVE FILES. (DEAD) Apr 29, 2026
LD 2103An Act Requiring Hospitals To Adopt Cybersecurity PlansSponsorApr 2, 2026Became lawHealth(model)Signed by Governor Apr 13, 2026
LD 2122An Act To Prevent Negative Impacts From Federal Funding Changes To And Fund Eligibility Determinations And Outreach For The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance ProgramCosponsorApr 2, 2026Passed both chambersAgriculture and Food(model)Died in Possession of the Senate when the Legislature adjourned Sine Die and was PLACED IN THE LEGISLATIVE FILES. (DEAD) Apr 29, 2026
LD 740An Act To Establish A Comprehensive Program To Divert Youth From The Criminal Justice System And Address Their NeedsCosponsorMar 25, 2026Became lawCrime and Law Enforcement(model)Became Law without Governor's Signature Apr 26, 2026
LD 2125An Act To Sustain Access To Children'S Residential Care ServicesSponsorMar 5, 2026Passed one chamberHealth(model)Died in Possession of the Senate when the Legislature adjourned Sine Die and was PLACED IN THE LEGISLATIVE FILES. (DEAD) Apr 29, 2026

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Online

The lab crawls McCabe’s official and campaign websites (weekly for Congress, monthly for the states) and keeps every page’s text, so changes can be read later; it also records social accounts and describes the images McCabe posts with a vision model.

Websites

No websites are tracked for this official.

How to read the counts

“Pages crawled” is the size of the site at the last crawl; “changes in 90 days” counts pages whose text differed from the previous crawl. Sites change for many routine reasons, such as new press releases, so a high count is not by itself notable.

Images McCabe posted

No images from McCabe’s posts have been described.

About the descriptions

Written by a vision model and may be wrong. Open the post to see the original. Five are shown; the toggle shows the rest.

State floor speeches

3 turns, Jun 3, 2025 to Jun 13, 2025

Floor speeches

Transcribed from chamber video or captions by the lab. They are not classified for kinds of statement.

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Methods and sources

How this page was made. Profile built Oct 28, 2026; site last built Oct 28, 2026. Every number on the page is computed from the sources listed here, by the same rules for every official; nothing is written by hand.

The headline

The headline is the measure on which McCabe is most unusual among State House Democrats, chosen by one rule for every official of every party. The candidates are the rate of each kind of statement and of extreme labels, party unity, attendance, the small-donor share, the in-state share and total receipts of the latest cycle, the share of sponsored bills that got out of committee, talk-to-bills agreement, and the CSIP score’s place within the party group.

The builder ranks every measure within the same peer group the page compares it with, and writes each official’s percentile: the share of the group below the value, ties counting half, so 0.5 is the median and a value shared by many never ranks first. A measure’s score is how far that percentile sits from the median (0 in the middle, 0.5 at either end), and the highest score leads if it is above 0.25, outside the middle half of the group. Scores within 0.03 of each other are a tie, broken in this order: votes against the party majority, kinds of statement, ideology, roll calls missed, small donations, in-state money, legislation, agreement, extreme labels, receipts.

A measure counts only with at least 200 statements, 100 roll calls or 5 sponsored bills behind it and a peer group of at least 10. Two things never lead: high party unity or attendance, where most members sit, and a high rate of a kind of statement backed by fewer than 10 statements. When nothing qualifies, the headline is a neutral fact instead: statements classified, or years in office. The wording always names the direction (“in the bottom 5% of …”, “votes against the majority of …”).

Identifiers

Profile id
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Open States
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Bulk files with the same data for every official:

Freshness of this profile’s data

  • What politicians sayOct 27, 20261 days agoMembers of Congress: tweets since 2017; press releases, newsletters and floor speeches since 2022. State legislators: tweets since May 2024. Governors: tweets since January 2025. Labels from an LLM classifier.
  • Roll calls (state)Oct 21, 20267 days agoOpen States floor roll calls, 2019 on (none for AK and MO).
  • Bills (state)Oct 28, 2026todayOpen States bills and sponsors, 2019 on; stages from roll calls.
  • Campaign money (state)no dateState campaign-finance agencies, 2019 on; aggregates only.
  • Ideology (CSIP)Oct 25, 20263 days agoCommon-Space Ideal Points (CSIP), current validated run.
  • WebsitesOct 25, 20263 days agoWeekly crawls of federal sites since April 2026; monthly state crawls since June 2026.
  • State floor speechesOct 21, 20267 days agoState floor speech turns (published transcripts and captions), 2020 on; not LLM-classified.

How the measures work

What politicians say
Every post, press release, newsletter and congressional floor speech is read by a language model and marked for personal attacks, policy criticism, policy discussion, bipartisanship and credit claiming. A statement can be in several. Rates are shares of statements in the window. The methods paper.
Extreme labels
A statement has an extreme label when it calls a politician, party or policy “far left”, “far right”, “MAGA”, “extreme”, “radical”, “woke”, “fascist” or “communist”. The target is who the label is aimed at.
Policy areas and agreement
Statements and bills share 25 Congressional Research Service policy areas (state bills are assigned by a language model). Agreement is 1 − Jensen–Shannon distance between the two distributions, shown with at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.
Ideology (CSIP)
Common-Space Ideal Points place federal and state officials on one left–right scale, estimated jointly from roll calls, campaign contributions and the text of statements, with standard errors. Only a validated run is shown. The methods paper.
Campaign money
Campaigns report by name only donors who give more than $200 in a cycle; smaller gifts are reported as one total. Federal totals and the small-donor share come from the FEC’s financial summaries of each campaign committee. Donor counts, donor states, employers and occupations cover itemized donors only. State filings report no small-gift totals, so state figures are itemized only. The lab never publishes donor names.
Votes and key votes
Attendance, party unity and the count of votes against the majority of an official’s own party come from roll calls (Voteview for Congress, chamber records for the states). Key votes are final-passage or override votes that became law, were decided by under 10%, saw at least 10% of a party vote against its majority, or concerned one of the 25 bills most mentioned in officials’ statements.
Peers and ranks
Comparisons are with the same party, chamber and level (for example House Democrats); state legislators are compared within their state and chamber for votes. Every comparison names its group. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; tied values share the average of their ranks, and the percentile is the share of the group below the value, ties counting half.

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