Posted on 11/15/2008 2:45:51 PM PST by My Favorite Headache
President-elect Obama has again made history by splitting traditionally Republican Nebraska's electoral votes, winning one of them in a state that has never split.
After all remaining ballots were counted Friday, Obama emerged with a 3,325-vote lead over Republican John McCain in unofficial results in the 2nd Congressional District. The district covers Douglas County, which includes Omaha.
Nebraska has five electoral votes. It is the only state besides Maine that split electoral votes.
Results in Missouri, with 11 electoral votes, are still not complete so the winner in that state has not been announced. Officials have until Tuesday to complete their count.
After Nebraska's single electoral vote, Obama now has 365 electoral votes to McCain's 162.
A combination of some who wouldn't vote for McCain and the successful media assassination of Sarah Palin.
The second district now includes a large population of illegals who naturally are recruited to vote democrat.
When calling for McCain in october - I encountered that objection - “He’s old, what if he drops dead?” I couldn’t say “Well, would that be bad?” - I just used something like the following:
“When god calls him home, it’ll be because he’ll do bigger work there than he can here. However, his mom is campaigning with him - he’ll be fine.”
Nebraska doesn’t require id?
There state government can do better than that.
So you can blame Christy todd whitman and John (Purina) Danforth for the McCain nomination.....
whose bone-headed idea was it to give the 2nd District its own electoral vote?”
Is it a Dem district?
How did Obama win there?
Lee Terry-R is the Congressman. His race was somewhat close with Jim Esch-D. The GOP outnumbers the Dems in the 2nd District. Still Obama somehow won. The Rats had better turn-out for Obama
So would have anyone else of the Republican also rans. McCain only wanted the nomination to ensure no conservative could be elected. My daughter, conservative, but not that into politics, described McCain's debate performance as pathetic.
These dog and pony shows make little difference to the politically astute, but there are a lot of amateurs who make their voting decision based on the debates.
Amen. McCain was a kick in the pants - but I worked my butt off trying to get him elected, even before Palin got on the ticket.
One hopes that we can put a conservative candidate up next time.
Buffet must have had a lot, $hall we $ay, to do with this, since Omaha is Buffet-land and he is “like this” with That One.
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