Unlike most winner-take-all states,Nebraskadivides its Electoral College votes among not just its statewide winner but also its congressional districts. Because of that, voters in the more liberal Omaha area can still help elect Harris in their district even if the rest of the state votes for ...
Secretary Evnen’s actions, taken less than four months before a presidential election, have dramatically upended two decades of settled election law and created chaos, confusion, and uncertainty in Nebraska’s electoral process. Thousands of Nebraskans whose right to vot...
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Nebraska andMaineare the only states that allow their Electoral College votes to be split. Democrats Barack Obama and Joe Biden claimed one each in 2008 and 2020, respectively, despite handily losing the statewide, GOP-dominated vote. The new map advanced by lawmakers would keep all of...
Harris targeted two battlegrounds within a battleground. Throw out Mitt Romney’s win in 2012, and the presidential candidate who bags Kent County has bagged Michigan’s electoral votes in each contest since 2008. In Grand Rapids, there were times when hers sounded...
(it is unique in the United States), with 49 members elected on a nonpartisan basis for terms of four years. The state elects three representatives and two senators to the U.S. Congress and has five electoral votes in presidential elections. Republicans have held the governorship since 1998...
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — For decades Republicans in GOP-dominated Nebraska have tried and failed to upend the state’s unusual method of splitting its presidential electoral votes by congressional district. Now, with yet another winner-take-all bill lik...
Nebraska is one of few states that doesn’t take a winner-take-all approach to its electoral votes. Two of the state’s five electors go to the winner statewide, and each congressional district gets to decide one electoral vote individually. Local media outlets reported last month that an ...
Trump benefited from the system in Maine, a blue state, where he won a single electoral college vote in 2016 and 2020 despite losing statewide. Democrats are less optimistic about a Maine sweep, party officials say, than winning one of Nebraska’s electoral votes. ...