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A shot at being America's first gay governor

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Democratic six-term Congressman Mike Michaud is running for governor in Maine, and if he succeeds in beating incumbent Paul LePage, he'll be the first openly-gay elected governor in the United States. msnbc followed Michaud on a weekend of campaigning in his home state to find out what it would mean to him should he make history.