He graduated from Shead Memorial High School in Eastport and earned a degree in political science from Bates College in Lewiston.
[3] On November 4, 2008, Raye won re-election by defeating Karen Johnson and Dana Kadey.
[4] Michaud, then a State Senator, narrowly defeated Republican Raye in the race to replace incumbent Democrat John Baldacci, who ran for Governor of Maine.
Michaud then became the only freshman Democratic member of Congress to vote for the 2003 ban on intact dilation and extraction (IDX), often called partial-birth abortion.
Raye, who was unable to run for re-election the Maine Senate due to term-limits, considered a rematch against incumbent Democrat Mike Michaud in the 2012 congressional elections as early as the middle of 2011.