The state’s Republican governor has proposed a legal change that could alter the course of the national presidential election
‘In one of those strange freaks of American politics, Nebraska has a split electoral college vote, and … the city of Omaha has reliably voted Democrat.’‘In one of those strange freaks of American politics, Nebraska has a split electoral college vote, and … the city of Omaha has reliably voted Democrat.’merican democracy is in a fragile place. If you haven’t figured that out by this point, you haven’t been paying attention. The dangers are coming from all sides.
As it stands, once you remove the settled Democrat and Republican states, the most direct path to a Kamala Harris victory is by way of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. With those three states, she would receive exactly 270 electoral college seats, the number she needs to win. In that case, she would win if, and only if, she holds that one electoral college vote in the congressional district of Omaha, Nebraska.
Pillen is effectively deflecting the electoral college question onto the state senators, but he is also opening the door to the possibility of the switch, which could alter the course of the election. It goes without saying that the nightmare I’ve described here – which could absolutely happen – is only one of several glitches in the electoral system which could undo the United States.The Republicans have set themselves up to maximize incoherence, exactly because they are aware of the vulnerability of the system.
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