Barack Obama's electoral count has increased by one. He and Biden won Nebraska's 2nd district, the greater Omaha area, giving the Democrats one of Nebraska's 5 electoral votes.
This is the first time since the Johnson v. Goldwater election of 1964 that any of Nebraska's electoral votes have gone to a Democrat.
By Christopher Hass - Nov 8th, 2008 at 2:31 pm EST
Alone among all other states, Nebraska and Maine use a tiered system for awarding electoral votes, in which a single elector is awarded based on votes within each Congressional district and two electors are awarded to the winner of the statewide popular vote. Yesterday, the Omaha World-Herald announced:
For the first time ever, a blue circle will appear in Nebraska on national electoral maps.
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... John Berge, state director for the Obama campaign ... said the victory was a tribute to all the work done by staffers and the hundreds of Obama volunteers who manned telephones and walked neighborhoods in the Omaha metropolitan area.
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The Nebraska results give Obama 365 electoral votes to John McCain's 162. Only Missouri and its 11 electoral votes remain undecided. ================