“I don’t know if it really has anything to do with it. Maybe if it was a presidential election it would.”

ASHLEY DREW, ORONO

“I think there is a connection. They’ll go up immediately after the election. I think politicians want it to be low. It makes them look good.”

BETTY ROBINSON, ENFIELD

“I don’t think there’s any connection. [Prices will] probably go up after the holidays.”

SCOTT FORAND, HERMON

“I do, but I think they’ll stay low for a while and then get higher slowly.”

MARTHA ATWOOD, KENDUSKEAG

“Prices go up and down and up and down, but really, the people that are responsible aren’t the politicians. It’s the oil companies.”

AL HEIMANN, MARSHFIELD

“I suspect yes. I read someplace that that’s typically what happens before elections. I think a few weeks after, they’ll start to go back up.”

JAN BRYAN, LEVANT