General Discussion

He's free to vote his conscience, and not in a way that makes him re-electable in ME-2. Maine isn't a monolith. Few things are really. Even VT where I live has it's conservative sections, primarily the NEK. Maine is a tale of 2 districts. ME-1 is heavily tied to Boston and the rest of New England. ME-2, for all practical purposes, is "potato land." It's lightly populated, very rural, and much more conservative than Portland, the heart of ME-1. What we're seeing is the true Jared Golden. Turns out he wasn't voting that way in order to stay in office. Something we see from many Dems elected to swing or moderately red districts. Apparently, he's Dem in name only. That was my point.

On Edit: We like to think these people always vote their conscience. Oh, hell no. That is not how this game works. Congress is good work if you can get it, and those who get it don't want to give it up if they don't have to. Sometimes that requires making compromises we would call selling out or voting in strange ways. Then again, we don't have to run for office in relatively conservative districts. The calculous for these people is very, very different than ours. Sometimes, we slip into simplistic thinking and don't take that into account.