While blue-state GOPs seek to split Electoral College, Nebraska seeks return to winner-take-all [View all]
Source: New York Times
... Nebraska is one of just two states, along with Maine, that do not award all their electoral voters to the statewide winner. And that meant that in 2008, Barack Obama picked up an electoral vote from the congressional district around Omaha, even as Senator John McCain trounced him across the rest of the state.
... So this year, a longstanding proposal to change the state’s Electoral College system to winner-take-all may finally reach the Republican governor’s desk, amid a renewed push by conservative lawmakers hoping to have new rules in place for the 2016 presidential election.
“It’s obvious that the majority of citizens of the state of Nebraska are Republicans,” said J. L. Spray, the state Republican Party chairman. “They want to have the maximum voice in the Electoral College.”
Democrats, not surprisingly, are fighting back. State party leaders have accused their Republican counterparts of shying away from competition, and are lamenting a possible return to presidential campaigns in which no candidates visit Nebraska because Democrats stand little chance for even a partial victory.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/01/us/politics/blue-dot-for-obama-prompts-red-nebraska-to-revisit-electoral-college-rules.html
The hypocrisy is stunning.
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