BS: Obama gets Omaha

Subject: BS: Obama gets Omaha
From: Genie
Date: 08 Nov 08 - 05:00 PM

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.

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Obama Wins Electoral Vote in Nebraska

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.
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Subject: RE: BS: Obama gets Omaha
From: Alice
Date: 08 Nov 08 - 05:03 PM

woo hoo!!

Subject: RE: BS: Obama gets Omaha
From: Sorcha
Date: 08 Nov 08 - 05:16 PM

When Wyoming gets a Blue vote, I'll die of heart failure. I'll probably be dead of something else by then! THAT will be the end of the world as we know it!

Subject: RE: BS: Obama gets Omaha
From: katlaughing
Date: 08 Nov 08 - 06:28 PM

Wow, that's great, Genie. One for every day of a year!

HeyaSorcha, at least you've got a Dem for gov. now!

Subject: RE: BS: Obama gets Omaha
From: Charley Noble
Date: 08 Nov 08 - 07:51 PM

I'll drink to that!

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Obama gets Omaha
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 08 Nov 08 - 07:54 PM

doesn't rhyme....you need a sronger chorus than that.

Subject: RE: BS: Obama gets Omaha
From: Ebbie
Date: 08 Nov 08 - 09:18 PM

Obamahah gets Omaha?

Subject: RE: BS: Obama gets Omaha
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 09 Nov 08 - 05:17 AM

well you can try singing it.... rather you than me.