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Nebraska Electoral Vote goes to Obama!!!

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Anonymous

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Obama Picks Up Another Electoral Vote

Nebraska is one of the two states (along with Maine) that awards one electoral vote for each congressional district carried plus two for the statewide winner. It now appears that Obama won NE-02 (Omaha) and picks up another electoral vote. This is the first time since 1828 that either state has split its EVs. The mapping software wasn't set up to color in Omaha separately, so the state will be marked in purple to indicate the red+blue split.

Nebraska Republicans have reacted to this development with dismay and intend to introduce legislation in 2009 to go to a winner-take-all system like 48 other states. Although technically the (unicameral) legislature is nonpartisan, de facto, the Republicans control it and also the governor's mansion, so they will probably succeed.
 

Sandhusker

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Oldtimer said:
Obama Picks Up Another Electoral Vote

Nebraska is one of the two states (along with Maine) that awards one electoral vote for each congressional district carried plus two for the statewide winner. It now appears that Obama won NE-02 (Omaha) and picks up another electoral vote. This is the first time since 1828 that either state has split its EVs. The mapping software wasn't set up to color in Omaha separately, so the state will be marked in purple to indicate the red+blue split.

Nebraska Republicans have reacted to this development with dismay and intend to introduce legislation in 2009 to go to a winner-take-all system like 48 other states. Although technically the (unicameral) legislature is nonpartisan, de facto, the Republicans control it and also the governor's mansion, so they will probably succeed.

If you knew the demographics of the district in Omaha that garnered Obama the vote, you wouldn't be thumping your chest. Chairman Maobama got the welfare vote.
 

jigs

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last time I was near Omaha, I was affraid for my life....some of those people are real bad news. I vowed to never go there at night !
 

Sandhusker

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jigs said:
last time I was near Omaha, I was affraid for my life....some of those people are real bad news. I vowed to never go there at night !

For the most part, Omaha is a very nice town. You just have to watch yourself in the NE and SE parts of town - the parts that voted for Obama.
 

jigs

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we were coming in from the south...and man I thought I was smack dab in the middle of gang war central..... I was freaking out !!

never going back there at night!



of course any town with more than 2500 people makes my nerves bounce..... I like it out here where no one crowds you!
 

badaxemoo

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Sandhusker said:
Oldtimer said:
Obama Picks Up Another Electoral Vote

Nebraska is one of the two states (along with Maine) that awards one electoral vote for each congressional district carried plus two for the statewide winner. It now appears that Obama won NE-02 (Omaha) and picks up another electoral vote. This is the first time since 1828 that either state has split its EVs. The mapping software wasn't set up to color in Omaha separately, so the state will be marked in purple to indicate the red+blue split.

Nebraska Republicans have reacted to this development with dismay and intend to introduce legislation in 2009 to go to a winner-take-all system like 48 other states. Although technically the (unicameral) legislature is nonpartisan, de facto, the Republicans control it and also the governor's mansion, so they will probably succeed.

If you knew the demographics of the district in Omaha that garnered Obama the vote, you wouldn't be thumping your chest. Chairman Maobama got the welfare vote.

Maybe he did get the vote of people on welfare in Omaha. But it looks like he probably also got this vote in Omaha:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1108/15471.html

I guess the Republicans have to get more of the wingnut vote out next time to make up for their losses among wealthy folks.

Maybe you and Jigs could team up as wingnut community organizers. I'm sure your message would play well in Palin's "real America".
 

Mike

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kolanuraven said:
Sandhusker said:
got the welfare vote.



And their vote is not as important as yours I suppose???????

Anyone who takes more "FROM" the system than they put back "IN" (re: taxes) well...... they shouldn't have a vote to start with......................

Plus, those welfare votes in this case were voting completely along racial lines anyway.

There was once a time when only "Landowners" could vote, and that wasn't ever deemed as unconstitutional, but was changed only as a way for politicians to get more votes.
 
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