Nebraska Republicans Redraw District So That Obama Gets Zero Electoral Votes
If President Obama thinks he can win reelection fair and square, then he has another thought coming. Officials in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Florida are already 
attempting to suppress votes among young, elderly, and minority voters in an effort to prevent an Obama reelection victory come November.
In a curious bit of election 2008 trivia, Obama won a tiny victory in Nebraska:
The most impressive victory of President Obama’s 2008 campaign may have also been the most minute: he won a single electoral vote by a single percentage point in Nebraska’s Second Congressional District. (Nebraska is one of two states, along with Maine, that awards electoral votes by Congressional district.)
And even though it is a given that Obama won’t be winning Nebraska, that’s not good enough for red state Republicans. They’re working to make certain that President Obama doesn’t even get the one electoral vote he received last time around:
But after the election, Nebraska Republicans responded with a fairly simple strategy. They moved the Second District even farther behind the battlements, redrawing the district lines after the 2010 Census to make it more Republican and “avoid what they considered to be the debacle of losing the seat to Obama in 2008,” Mr. Landow said.
In essence, Nebraska Republicans are changing their entire system in response to Obama winning a single electoral vote. This shouldn’t be surprising considering that many states are changing their entire election process in response to Obama winning in 2008. This all demonstrates that Republicans aren’t interested in the process or fairness, but upending Obama. They’ll do anything to ensure that he doesn’t see a second term, no matter what it takes.
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Folks, we have to rely on personal research when interpreting news. Look, NE only has 5 electoral votes. AND the state has not gone for a Democrat in the past 40 years and would not likely be the Dem’s this year. This is a non-issue. But in a following post, I’ll provide another piece I just put together yesterday. See NE’s electoral votes history here: http://www.270towin.com/states/Nebraska
DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND VOTER SUPPRESSION — Something you never hear.
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“Nebraska Republicans are changing their entire system in response to Obama winning a single electoral vote.”
Not really. They aren’t “changing their entire system”. They’re still choosing Electors by popular vote. They’re still allocating them by district. All they changed was the district map. And it wasn’t just to prevent Obama from getting an Electoral vote (though I’m sure that’s a bonus in their eyes), but primarily to make it harder for a Democrat to win that district in the House, which is a standard every-10-years political exercise by the party in power in each state. If you want to be taken seriously, get a little perspective.
Nebraska made changes to a district to ensure that Obama doesn’t receive ANY electoral votes. They made that change just because Obama received ONE electoral vote in 2008. I think the author’s point stands.
Nebraska officials could’ve, and probably should’ve, done this decades ago if they were at all concerned about how asinine their process was. The implications were always there. But they didn’t change until Obama. That says something, whether you’re willing to acknowledge it or not really doesn’t matter.