Bill to make Nebraska's electoral votes winner-take-all moves ahead but still too close to call

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/news/legislature/bill-to-make-nebraska-s-electoral-votes-winner-take-all/article_af754c2c-c101-11e4-be5e-a3b50939f3a5.html

POSTED: MONDAY, MARCH 2, 2015 11:29 AM
By Joe Duggan / World-Herald Bureau

LINCOLN — Winner-take-all may have won the critical first round Monday in the Nebraska Legislature, but whether the state changes how it awards electoral votes in presidential elections is still too close to call.

State Sen. Bob Krist of Omaha cast the key vote ending an eight-hour filibuster orchestrated by opponents of the politically divisive measure. Minutes later, Legislative Bill 10 advanced to the second round of debate after 31 senators voted in favor. Krist was one of the 17 who voted against.

Afterward, Krist said he sees no reason to do away with Nebraska’s current system of awarding three of the state’s five electoral votes to whichever presidential candidate wins in each of the three congressional districts. The two other electoral votes go to the statewide winner.

But Krist, a Republican, said he was willing to listen to more discussion of the bill in the second round. That’s why he agreed to vote for an end to first-round debate, which allowed the bill to advance rather than be all but dead for the year.

FULL story at link.

[Rochester]

1. They're still sore that Obama grabbed one EV in 2008

and, if I remember right, when they redistricted they deliberately gerrymandered to make a repeat more difficult.