Posted on 04/03/2024 12:55:17 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Nebraska State Sen. Mike McDonnell (R-5) announced he is fleeing the Democrat party to become a Republican, giving the GOP what U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-NE) calls a “filibuster-proof majority” in Nebraska’s unicameral legislature.
McDonnell’s party change bears major implications for local and national politics as the state is on the verge of moving to a winner-take-all electoral vote allocation system for presidential elections.
The state currently has a split electoral vote awarding system that gives “two electoral votes to the state popular vote winner, and then one electoral vote to the popular vote winner in each congressional district,” as Newsweek’s Natalie Venegas pointed out.
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Agreed. Short term gain, but I think electoral votes should be allocated by district. Here in CA that might result in a dozen or more voted for the Republican, instead of 54 for the rat every time. Studies show that the results in recent presidential elections would generally have been the same, but such system is more just. After all, in 2020, Trump got more than 6,000,000 in CA, but it didn’t benefit him a bit
But no one will ever allow that in NY or CA. It will only come about in places that are red or leaning red.
That way the Democrat always wins.
Just a bit of inside Nebraska: It’s the only state with a Unicameral (one house) legislature. There are 49 “senators” who paid $12,000 per year. They can only serve two 4-year consecutive terms and sit out 4 years before returning (a ballot in Nov. will determine whether this will be extended to 3 terms).
A very efficient system that minimizes politics (senators are theoretically “non partisan”. Which explains why other states haven’t adopted it.
They’ve got Bacon. If he had tits he’d still be useless.
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