歐巴馬贏得Nebraska第二選區的選舉人票，目前以134,168領
先馬侃的132,908。雖然還有些臨時選票沒清點，不過不太可
能推翻歐巴馬的領先優勢。密蘇里州同樣也有臨時選票還未
清點，不過多半是不足以推翻馬侃六千餘票的領先。
最後的選舉人票比應該會是365:173。
先前的推文弄錯了，同一州的選舉人票由不同候選人奪得至少在十九
世紀是有前例的，不過這應該是二十世紀以來的第一次。
Published Saturday November 8, 2008
Obama wins electoral vote in Nebraska
BY ROBYNN TYSVER
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER
http://omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2835&u_sid=10481441
For the first time ever, a blue circle will appear in Nebraska on national
electoral maps.
Democrat Barack Obama won the Omaha-based 2nd Congressional District on
Friday, scooping up one of the state's five electoral votes.
In the process, he made history and shone the spotlight on Nebraska's unusual
electoral college system.
Obama won 8,434 of 15,039 mail-in ballots counted Friday by Douglas County
election officials. These early ballots arrived in the election
commissioner's office too late to be included in Tuesday's election results.
The additional votes gave Obama a 1,260-vote lead over Republican John McCain
in unofficial returns. McCain won the popular vote statewide and four
electoral votes.
About 5,000 provisional ballots in Douglas County remain to be counted next
week, but they are unlikely to change the 2nd District outcome. About half of
such ballots typically are disqualified.
"We always knew we could do it, but it would be an uphill climb. It's great
to see a little corner of Nebraska turn blue," said John Berge, state
director for the Obama campaign.
Berge 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.
Republican Hal Daub, McCain's state director, congratulated Obama on his win.
He praised the candidate for coming to Omaha in February, saying it made for
a "fun election."
The Nebraska results give Obama his 365th electoral vote. McCain's tally
stands at 162. Only Missouri's 11 electoral votes remain undecided.
Obama's win will assuredly spark interest in the split electoral system,
which only Nebraska and Maine use. All other states are winner-take-all on
electoral votes.
It was the first time since 1964 that Nebraska has awarded an electoral vote
to a Democrat. The state has been reliably Republican since it voted for
Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson that year.
Obama ignored Nebraska's history this year, sending 16 paid staffers into the
2nd District and opening three offices in Omaha.
A 1991 state law allowed Obama to concentrate his efforts on the Omaha area,
where Democrats outnumber Republicans.
Nebraska is the first state in the modern era to have a split electoral
decision.
Nebraska and Maine are not, however, the first states to try a
split-electoral system, said Randy Adkins, a political scientist at the
University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Several states flirted with similar systems in the early 1800s, including
Kentucky, Maryland and North Carolina.
One of the last to use it was Michigan, which split its electoral votes in
the 1892 presidential election between Benjamin Harrison and Grover Cleveland.
States began abandoning the split system in the late 19th century. Political
parties, especially those dominating in particular states, led the effort for
a winner-take-all system.
"It's political greed," said George Edwards, chairman of presidential studies
at Texas A&M University's Bush School of Government and Public Service and
editor of Presidential Studies Quarterly. "The dominant political parties
want all of the votes."
He hopes that Obama's win in Nebraska will spark national interest in the
split system, which he said does a better job of representing the will of the
people. "I think it would be very healthy if this sparked some discussion . .
. and I suspect that it will," he said.
‧ Contact the writer: 444-1309, [email protected]
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: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2008
: 選舉票 藍364張(6成8) 紅174張(3成2)
: 開票結束
: 普選票 藍61148244(5成2) 紅54564713(4成7)
: 開的最慢的搖擺州
: 北卡 藍50-:紅49
: 密蘇里 藍49:紅49.5
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