Nebraska makes history.

[meimichan]

Nebraska and Maine are the only two states that may split their electoral vote based on what the vote tallies are in their congressional districts.

Neither state has ever split its vote before.

Until now. Omaha has gone blue.

Comments

[startracer.livejournal.com]

Neato.

[jeb007.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, it must be the end of the world, right?

But, seriously, I wonder if it should work this way everywhere. Or something along the lines of splitting on smaller areas than whole states.

[meimichan.livejournal.com]

Omaha going blue? Nah, I'd expect that of them sooner or later; I keep hearing about what a growing art and music scene that town has. :p Still kinda cool though.

Honestly, since a good chunk of states tend to choose a candidate by a slim majority, the electoral college should probably just die. That and I'm still just a wee bit bitter about what happened in 2000(Bush did not win the popular vote). But it won't happen anytime soon. Hence cheering when states go blue.

A part of me is also holding out hope that the two-party system we have going dies and we end up with three or four viable parties. I don't know too many people who hard-line agree with either Republican or Democrat candidates, but it seems like every four years this country gets split into two camps. An all-out brawl would be that much more interesting. :p

[bastet11191967.livejournal.com]

It seems that the electoral college was invented because of a lack of more sophisticated counting methods. With almost everything being computerized, one would think that it would no longer be necessary. Have actual voter numbers be the determining factor :p As for the two-party system, I don't know too many people either who fall neatly within either group. I consider myself somewhere in the middle.