Unit 3
March 2, 2015
Blue Dot For Obama Prompts Red Nebraska to Revisit Electoral College Rules
Mostly everyone in the
state of Nebraska is a republican making Nebraska known as a completely red
state. Looking at a constant trend set
in Nebraska, it is shown that all of Nebraska’s Electoral College votes are coming out as republican as well. Nebraska is one of only two states that does
not practice the “winner-takes-all
system” along with the other state of Maine. This article brings up an important
issue that is relative to Unit 3 because it discusses the Electoral College and
how each state uses it differently.
In 2008, the state was
in shock when President Obama won one Electoral College vote in the election. There are predictions that in 2015, a proposal
will be passed that says about changing the winner-take-all system that has
been occurring for many years. They
believe that this proposal will make it through to the governor’s office through
a conservative push. It will gain a greater
drive because of the conservative
believers and the approaching election which seems right now to be a close one. The Republican
voters in Nebraska are defending this proposal to keep up their saying in
the Electoral College. They are saying that since they did not get their way
and did not get their vote, they want to go change the rules. The article positions
that “Switching to winner-take-all is a matter of fairness, not
partisanship. Democrats think otherwise,
and some call the Republicans’ efforts an attempt to extend their monopoly of
state politics.”
In the article it is stated that through pushing this
proposal into the legislature, they
can eliminate the tiny Democratic vote
and make all votes from the Electoral College be Republican due to the majority
rules method. Democrats are refuting
this proposal by testifying that Republicans are “shying away from competition”
and the proposal will be biased because it will end in zero chance for the
Democratic candidates to have even a fractional victory in the state. Obama won
the urban Omaha Congressional District in 2008 in spite of the point that
Democratic nominees typically tend to lose a lot.
Even though I typically have Republican views, I have to agree
with the Democrats views on this issue.
Having Nebraska’s Electoral College system to be changed to the
winner-take-all system will be unfair for the Democratic voters in the
state. I think the Democratic votes
should be able to go through the Electoral College and count for something
since the state is already a majority Republican. The public could gain a lot of support by
having more voters registering and more voters able to know that their votes
mean/stand for something in this world.
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