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  2. United States presidential elections in Nebraska - Wikipedia

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    Nebraska is a predominantly Republican state, making it a rare occurrence for a Democrat to win the state in its entirety. Since 1940, the Democratic Party has only secured the full slate of electoral votes once—during the 1964 election, when President Lyndon B. Johnson achieved a landslide victory on the national scale. [8]

  3. What is the Electoral College and how does it determine the ...

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    The candidate who gets more than 270 electoral votes becomes the next president.Most states have a winner-take-all policy, but in Nebraska and Maine, the votes are handed out based on which ...

  4. Elections in Nebraska - Wikipedia

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    The number of elections in Nebraska varies by year. Nebraska has a gubernatorial election every four years. Members of the state's United States congressional delegation run for election or re-election at the times set out in the United States Constitution. Primary elections assist in choosing political parties' nominees for various positions ...

  5. 2020 United States presidential election in Nebraska

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    Ever since Nebraska first adopted this system in 1992, in practice the Republican nominee has almost always won all three districts, and hence all the state's electoral votes. The first time it split its electoral votes came in 2008 when Barack Obama carried Nebraska's 2nd congressional district, anchored by Omaha, and thus received one ...

  6. 'It's Over': Republicans Concede Defeat In Bid To Change ...

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    Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) shown here on May 11, 2023, at the U.S. Capitol, said the votes aren't there for Nebraska to change the way it allots electoral votes before the November election.

  7. Bill to change how Nebraska awards Electoral College votes fails

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    But under the current rules, Democrats have picked up an Electoral College vote from time to time. In 2020, Joe Biden won Nebraska's 2nd Congressional District. Then-Sen. Barack Obama also won the ...

  8. United States Electoral College - Wikipedia

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    This may result in greater proportionality. But it can give results similar to the winner-takes-all states, as in 1992, when George H. W. Bush won all five of Nebraska's electoral votes with a clear plurality on 47% of the vote; in a truly proportional system, he would have received three and Bill Clinton and Ross Perot each would have received ...

  9. How Nebraska could shake up the presidential map: From the ...

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    In that scenario and with the current rules in Nebraska, Biden would win the presidency with 270 Electoral College votes to Trump’s 268. But if Nebraska awarded all its votes to the statewide ...