relatively speaking, you have a lot of land with not many people on that land. and that s a feature, not a bug, right? your emptiness makes you beautiful and great. but we don t vote by acreage in this country, we vote by human. so a big giant stake like montana gets three votes, nebraska, a measly five votinev. in electoral politics, one relatively crowded indiana is worth as much as montana, wyoming, and nebraska all combined. but if you look a little bit closer at the sea of red from the 2008 election, if you look at the results map from when president obama won last time, and you ll notice in the big sea of red in the middle of the country, there was one blue dot inside nebraska. barack obama won that little blue dot. nebraska is one of only two states in the country that don t just give all their elek troerl vo votes on a statewide basis. they divide their votes by congressional district. and in 2008, in the middle of what we think of as big, empty,
and in 2008, in the middle of what we think of as big, empty, red state nebraska, it was barack obama who won nebraska s second congressional district. so he won that single electoral vote. so basically, omaha, nebraska, was a blue dot. since obama beat john mccain so badly in 2008, that little blue dot in nebraska ended up just being sort of interesting trivia about the election. that one electoral vote was not decisive, right? but check this out. the other state besides nebraska that does not just award its electoral votes as a whole state, the other state that splits them up by district is the state of maine. and maine has gone all blue in the last five presidential elections. but this year, a pro-mitt romney super pac is buying a nice chunk of airtime in maine for pro-mitt romney ads, including, in the one congressional district in the state, where mitt romney might, maybe, conceivably have a chance. and yeah, maybe the romney super pac is really buying ads in maine so they ll get
montana, and nebraska, but relatively speaking, you have a lot of land with not many people on that land. and that s a feature, not a bug, right? your emptiness makes you beautiful and great. but we don t vote by acreage in this country, we vote by human. so a big giant stake like montana gets three votes, nebraska, a measly five votes. in electoral politics, one relatively crowded indiana is worth as much as montana, wyoming, and nebraska all combined. but if you look a little bit closer at the sea of red from the 2008 election, if you look at the results map from when president obama won last time, and you ll notice in the big sea of red in the middle of the country, there was one blue dot inside nebraska. barack obama won that little blue dot. nebraska is one of only two states in the country that don t just give all their elek troerl votes on a statewide basis. they divide their votes by congressional district.
red state nebraska, it was barack obama who won nebraska s second congressional district. so he won that single electoral vote. so basically, omaha, nebraska, was a blue dot. since obama beat john mccain so badly in 2008, that little blue dot in nebraska ended up just being sort of interesting trivia about the election. that one electoral vote was not decisive, right? but check this out. the other state besides nebraska that does not just award its electoral votes as a whole state, the other state that splits them up by district is the state of maine. and maine has gone all blue in the last five presidential elections. but this year, a pro-mitt romney super pac is buying a nice chunk of airtime in maine for pro-mitt romney ads, including, in the one congressional district in the state, where mitt romney might, maybe, conceivably have a chance. and yeah, maybe the romney super pac is really buying ads in maine so they ll get seen next door in swing state, new hampshire, but maybe the ra
wyoming, and nebraska all combined. but if you look a little bit closer at the sea of red from the 2008 election, if you look at the results map from when president obama won last time, and you ll notice in the big sea of red in the middle of the country, there was one blue dot inside nebraska. barack obama won that little blue dot. nebraska is one of only two states in the country that don t just give all their elek troerl votes on a statewide basis. they divide their votes by congressional district. and in 2008, in the middle of what we think of as big, empty, red state nebraska, it was barack obama who won nebraska s second congressional district. so he won that single electoral vote. so basically, omaha, nebraska, was a blue dot. since obama beat john mccain so badly in 2008, that little blue dot in nebraska ended up just being sort of interesting trivia about the election. that one electoral vote was not decisive, right?