WRONG!
Michaud was well liked and was not a complete idiot. Always easily won vs the republicans running against him in the conservative leaning second district. The reason LePage was reelected is 1) Vote splitting. It was a 3 way race, with a left leaning independent as the 3rd candidate. 2) a referendum banning bear hunting with bait and dogs was on the ballot. This drove the rural vote to a record turn-out. When the hillbillies that never vote got into the booth to vote against the bear baiting ban then sure weren't going to check the box off next to the gay democrat, when it was the evil liberals that wanted to take away 'their way of life'. My father, a democrat, has been selectman of a rural Maine town for almost 40 years. He said he saw people that NEVER vote come out in droves to vote against the bear baiting and LePage crushed Michaud in that town.
LePage has no good ideas. He blame's Maine's problems on everyone else, and has NO IDEAS other than cutting taxes for the wealthy. By the way, he is now recycling ideas from the previous democratic administration: Baldacci passed a tax reform that lowered income taxes and shifted towards a higher sales tax with the idea that since Maine has a tourism-based economy and a large number of part-time residents, this would help ease the tax burden off full-time residents by collecting more taxes from tourists and 'summer people'. The Republican's launched a citizens veto effort, and were able to repeal the changes via referendum. LePage has now proposed similar reforms not once, but twice. He also proposes school district consolidation, which republican's fought the democrats on in the past.
