Posted on 11/06/2024 1:29:23 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Forty-eight states and Washington, D.C., award all their presidential electoral votes to the candidate who wins statewide.
Then there’s Nebraska and Maine.
Both states split their electoral votes between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election using rules that set them apart from the rest of the country.
The two states each award two electoral votes to the winner of the statewide vote, as well as one electoral vote to the popular vote winner in each congressional district. Nebraska has three congressional districts and five total electoral votes, while Maine has two congressional districts and four total electoral votes.
Trump won statewide in Nebraska, as well as in the 1st and 3rd Congressional Districts, picking up four electoral votes. Harris carried the Omaha-based 2nd Congressional District and its electoral vote. She is the third Democrat to win an electoral vote from the 2nd District under this system, after Barack Obama in 2008 and President Joe Biden in 2020.
Earlier this year, some Nebraska Republicans tried to change state law to award all its electoral votes to the statewide winner as the rest of the country does. The effort failed when a key GOP state legislator came out against the plan.
If Harris were to win Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and lose every other battleground state, she would need the electoral vote from Nebraska’s 2nd District to win the presidency.
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Doing your own research, still asking stupid questions.
>> is this a good thing?
Depends on how the districts are gerrymandered.
Maine and Nebraska essentially canceled each other out.
Basically, it works well for the opposing minority color where an enclave could decide differently than the remainder of the state.
This would likely benefit conservatives in Blue states more so than libs in Red states.
You are way too hung up on this. You need rest. We won. Don’t worry about it.
Omahahahaha! Must be the north side.
Warren Buffet’s neighborhood is plastered with Harris/Walz signs and blue dots.
That only goes to show they are not as smart as they think. Good thing we still have the electoral college in my opinion.
You are right.
Going back to the founding ,the individual states believed that they, as sovereign states, had state interests, separate and independent of the interests of individual citizens.
This is one of the reasons behind the concept of the US Senate.
In the immediate wake of the founding, state legislatures appointed US Senators from their states, with the intention that the House represented the citizens, while the Senators would represent their States.
There was also a well grounded fear that the more populous (more industrialized) states, would overwhelm and control (through House of Representatives majorities, and direct popular vote in cases of Presidents and vice presidents [vice presidents in those days being the second place finisher in the presidential election]).
The Electoral College idea was adopted to help smooth these impacts somewhat.
The founders understood, feared, and worked to forestall the “tyrany of the majority”, inherent in a direct democracy..
It may seem anachronistic, but there are reasons for the Electoral College.
Well instinctually then I think the Maine/Nebraska model compromises the Electoral College?
But my beloved California…albeit I am in the bluest of blue areas — has quite a huge swath of red that could benefit a Republican.
Buffett probably had them in front of his bungalow.
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