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I'm still mostly on LJ hiatus (I've got yet more job applications due next week), but I've got to share one of the rare bits of positive news from my home state: after mail-in ballots were counted, Barack Obama has won Omaha's electoral vote.
I was surprisingly obsessed with the Omaha count on election night (as Kim can attest), and I'm thrilled that one corner of Nebraska has gone on record in Obama's column. (Obama won by a decent margin in my hometown of Lincoln, too, but nowhere near enough to outweigh the rural areas that compose the rest of its congressional district.) It'll be interesting to see whether this raises interest in states splitting their electoral votes. (Omaha certainly got more attention from both campaigns this year than it would have if Nebraska's vote couldn't split.)
This makes up a little for the recent state slogan, "Nebraska: Fighting Rural Population Decline One Unwanted Child at a Time".
I was surprisingly obsessed with the Omaha count on election night (as Kim can attest), and I'm thrilled that one corner of Nebraska has gone on record in Obama's column. (Obama won by a decent margin in my hometown of Lincoln, too, but nowhere near enough to outweigh the rural areas that compose the rest of its congressional district.) It'll be interesting to see whether this raises interest in states splitting their electoral votes. (Omaha certainly got more attention from both campaigns this year than it would have if Nebraska's vote couldn't split.)
This makes up a little for the recent state slogan, "Nebraska: Fighting Rural Population Decline One Unwanted Child at a Time".