Also note everyone of them is a deep blue state.
Maine is not a “deep blue state.”
The First Congressional District, 20% of the state, includes the liberal Portland area. It’s in the southeast corner of the state, close to Massachusetts, and IS deep blue.
The Second Congressional District, which covers 80% of Maine, is 27,000 square miles which makes this district the largest in area east of the Mississippi River. It’s mostly rural, pro-Second Amendment country.
The second CD is more conservative. Candidate Trump carried this district by 10 points, earning him one electoral vote. (Maine apportions it’s electoral votes by district). Madame Hillary won the first CD for one electoral vote. She also carried the statewide vote by 2.9% (the first district is more heavily populated and that’s why). She won two more electoral votes by winning the statewide vote.
Hillary also ran a lot more ads than candidate Donald Trump.
If this national popular vote crap becomes a reality in 2020, the people of the more conservative second district will be dis-enfranchised.
There was a blue wave in many areas of the country last November and, unfortunately, Maine was one of those areas.
Our great conservative governor Paul LePage was term-limited, and now we have Janet Mills, the 70+ year old former dem liberal attorney general.
The national popular vote BS only kicks in if states representing 270 electoral votes kick in. They won’t reach that number by November 2020, and the U.S. Supreme Court will ultimately have to weigh in.