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To: july4thfreedomfoundation
What does Maine and Nebraska due with the two electoral votes they get from their Senators?
12 posted on 04/04/2011 8:05:15 AM PDT by HenpeckedCon (What pi$$es me off the most is that POS commie will get a State Funeral!)
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To: HenpeckedCon
What does Maine and Nebraska due with the two electoral votes they get from their Senators?

IIRC, they go to whom ever wins the popular vote state wide. I could be wrong, though.

23 posted on 04/04/2011 8:51:09 AM PDT by Turbo Pig (...to close with and destroy the enemy...)
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To: HenpeckedCon

Nebraska has three congressional districts.

Under a 1991 Nebraska law, whichever presidential candidate wins the individual congressional districts gets one electoral vote from each district.

Whichever candidate wins the statewide popular vote in Nebraska gets the other two electoral votes....the two electoral votes they get from their senators.

In 2008, McCain won two of Nebraska’s congressional districts as well as the statewide vote. He received four electoral votes from Nebraska. Obama won one congressional district in Omaha, and he, Obama, received one electoral vote from Nebraska.

Maine has two congressional districts. Same deal as Nebraska....the statewide winner of the popular vote receives the two electoral votes they get from their senators. Obama received a majority of the vote in both of Maine’s congressional districts, so he, Obama, received all four of Maine’s electoral college votes.

Maine and Nebraska are the only two states that divy up their electoral votes by congressional district.


27 posted on 04/04/2011 10:04:40 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (A Jimmy Carter got us a Ronald Reagan......A Barack Obama will get us a Sarah Palin)
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