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How did Bush get 80+% of the vote in Nebraska, or if he didn't why didn't the Democrats get at least one elector there?

Go to this link, click on '2004' in the left-hand column, and click on Nebraska on the map (for whatever reason, it doesn't let me link to the page directly). Nebraska went to Bush with 65.9% of the vote and only one county being a majority for Kerry, meaning none of Nebraska's congressional districts had a majority for Kerry, meaning Bush got all of Nebraska's electoral votes.
 
I'm still confused. If Nebraska has 3 electoral votes it must have only one congressman, so what 'congressional districts' are you talking about?

I always assumed, quite possibly incorrectly, that states with split voters (meaning only Nebraska these days), did it as a sort of PR. Which would mean that 2 would go republican and one democrat here.

I do know Nebraska is 'different'...

Edit: And I've never really followed precise electoral details like that.
 
I'm still confused. If Nebraska has 3 electoral votes it must have only one congressman, so what 'congressional districts' are you talking about?

I always assumed, quite possibly incorrectly, that states with split voters (meaning only Nebraska these days), did it as a sort of PR. Which would mean that 2 would go republican and one democrat here.

I do know Nebraska is 'different'...

Edit: And I've never really followed precise electoral details like that.

Nebraska has five electoral votes, not three. It (and Maine, although Maine's never split its four electoral votes before) have a system whereby two of the state's electoral votes are allocated to whichever presidential candidate wins the popular vote of the state at-large. Congressional districts are the divisions within each state determining the constituencies of that state's delegates to the House of Representatives. Nebraska and Maine give an electoral vote each to whomever wins the popular votes in each congressional district. Here's a .pdf showing Nebraska's congressional districts, and here's one of Maine's.

In the 2008 election, McCain won the vote in Nebraska at-large as well as in the 1st and 3rd Congressional districts of that state, but Obama received a majority of votes in the 2nd Congressional district, thus giving McCain four of Nebraska's electoral votes and Obama one of them. Is there anything else you need explained?
 
Nebraska has five electoral votes, not three. It (and Maine, although Maine's never split its four electoral votes before) have a system whereby two of the state's electoral votes are allocated to whichever presidential candidate wins the popular vote of the state at-large. Congressional districts are the divisions within each state determining the constituencies of that state's delegates to the House of Representatives. Nebraska and Maine give an electoral vote each to whomever wins the popular votes in each congressional district. Here's a .pdf showing Nebraska's congressional districts, and here's one of Maine's.

In the 2008 election, McCain won the vote in Nebraska at-large as well as in the 1st and 3rd Congressional districts of that state, but Obama received a majority of votes in the 2nd Congressional district, thus giving McCain four of Nebraska's electoral votes and Obama one of them. Is there anything else you need explained?
Oops! Sorry. Got it. Thanks. I always noticed those 3 '1's in Nebraska, and never the 2 above it, or didn't realize how it worked.
Duh... Obviously Nebraska is a lot bigger than e.g. Wyoming and would have more than one congressman. Galloping uncorrected misconceptions.
 

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Indeed!

But why kill off Bush, if you just get that fool Cheney? There's NO difference between the two, except that Cheney is worse.
 
But why kill off Bush, if you just get that fool Cheney? There's NO difference between the two, except that Cheney is worse.

Exactly - President Cheney sets it up for a lefty like Wellstone to be accepted as President. And I mean "lefty" in the nicest way possible.
 
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