Is Maine trending GOP?

[tpfkaw]

Unclear and yes. It is funny that with a swing of only 5.14, the GOP would have swept the New England gubernatorial races.

[tpfkaw]

There are very few cultural Christian conservatives in Maine

LOL

[tpfkaw]

Maybe Michaud's loss has to do with his homosexuality.
Of course, one could say, he had been reelected to the more conservative of Maine's two congressional district several times, but the truth is, that was before his coming out. Plus he hasn't won any of the counties in that district.

It had quite a bit to do with his homosexuality. See: https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?fips=23&year=2005&f=0&off=50&elect=0

Also why I find laughable the idea that there are "very few cultural Christian conservatives in Maine."

This was something of a banner year for homophobic campaigns, unfortunately. DeMaio-Peters and, to a lesser extent, Gibson-Eldridge saw some extremely nasty dog-whistling, and there were also some slightly dog-whistleish ads aired on behalf of Seth Moulton over here. ("Seth Moulton served our country during four tours in Iraq..." blue-tinted photo of Moulton in combat gear "...career politician Richard Tisei..." pink-tinted unflattering photo of Tisei).

[tpfkaw]

To partially answer the question in the OP, ME-2 definitely swung very hard to the right, seeing as Poliquin and an independent who ran to his right combined for 58.18% of the vote. Even in a wave year and a swingy state, that's a pretty remarkable result in a D+2 district.

[tpfkaw]

I think the more relevant swing-trend maps would be 2014-gov (LePage vs. combined Michaud-Cutler) and 2010-gov (combined LePage-Moody vs. combined Cutler-Mitchell).