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,