Half the state gave Trump half of Maine’s electors. But the other elector went for Hillary, as I understand. But as a Senator, she is elected by the whole state, and the rural vote is outweighed by the urban vote in Bangor, et al. She knows her state. She’s from old money aristocracy going back to 1850, and I think she consistently gets the Bangor vote. How many terms has she served already? Murkowsky has a similar formula with Anchorage voters. Oregon and Washington work the same way. Only Maine gives you the illusion that, just because half the state gets its own elector, it has greater clout in a statewide contest, and it does not.
As I said, the voters she wants won’t vote for her and the voters she needs to be nailing down she obviously is giving the middle finger to. She wants to lose.
Murkowski is a different story. Alaska is a Republican state, and when she ran in 2010, she lost renomination to Joe Miller and illegally ran as a sore-loser write-in with the de facto support of AK Demonrats. As far as I’m concerned, she’s not a Republican Senator. She may have been “renominated” again in 2016 in the face of weak opposition, but again, still a fake candidate (the true Republican nominee ran on the Libertarian line).
Even though she serves the corrupt interests of the RINO political machine and AK Demonrats, she doesn’t have the courage to switch parties and stop playing games. This time around in 2022, I expect she will either retire of her own accord or will be formally and finally deposed by Sarah Palin, who is really tired of her $hit.