Obama Seeking To Win One Electoral Vote In Nebraska
By Glenn Church | Related entries in 2008 Election, BarackBarack Obama is seeking electoral votes one at a time. At least that is the case in Nebraska. Nebraska is one of only two states that allow their electoral votes to be split between candidates. Maine is the other state, but Obama is hoping to win all the electoral votes there.
Nebraska, which has five electoral votes, uses the Congressional District Method for allocating its electoral votes. The winner of the state popular vote gets two votes, while the winner of each of the three Congressional Districts wins those votes.
In 2006, Democrat Jim Esch came within 10 percentage points of unseating Republican Congressman Lee Terry. The Obama campaign feels that with its grassroots organization it might be able to win that District. Esch is the nominee again this year and is tagging his campaign along with Obama’s efforts.
So far, it looks like Obama will make the vote competitive. Democrats appear energized. In Douglas County, almost 1,200 Democrats have been added to the voter rolls in the last four months. In that same period, only 53 Republicans registered.
Since 1832, only Michigan in 1892 has split its electoral vote because of a popular vote preference.
(from Foolocracy.com)
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September 16th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
To make every vote in every state politically relevant and equal in presidential elections, support the National Popular Vote bill.
The National Popular Vote bill would guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states (and DC). The bill would take effect only when enacted by states possessing a majority of the electoral votes (270 of 538). When the bill comes into effect, all the electoral votes from those states would be awarded to the presidential candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states (and DC).
The National Popular Vote bill has been approved by 21 legislative chambers (one house in CO, AR, ME, NC, and WA, and two houses in MD, IL, HI, CA, MA, NJ, RI, and VT). It has been enacted into law in Hawaii, Illinois, New Jersey, and Maryland. These states have 50 (19%) of the 270 electoral votes needed to bring this legislation into effect.
see http://www.NationalPopularVote.com
September 25th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Because of the way the electoral and popular votes interact with each other there have been 12 Presidential elections that were decided by less than a 1% margin; meaning if less than 1% of the voters in certain states had changed their mind to the other candidate the outcome of the entire election would have been different.
https://www.msu.edu/~sheppa28/elections.html