http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/node/6936Submitted by BuzzFlash on Sat, 11/08/2008 - 10:59am. Alerts
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ALERT
It took a couple days to determine, but Barack Obama just added one more "Red State" electoral vote to his landslide: the Omaha congressional district!
Remember that Nebraska and Maine are the only two states to apportion their electoral votes. Obama won all the Maine electoral votes.
On Friday, a final count of absentee ballots resulted in Barack Obama picking up Omaha's 2nd Congressional District, according to the Omaha World-Herald:
For the first time ever, a blue circle will appear in Nebraska on national electoral maps.
Democrat Barack Obama won the Omaha-based 2nd Congressional District on Friday, scooping up one of the state's five electoral votes.
In the process, he made history and shone the spotlight on Nebraska's unusual electoral college system.
Obama won 8,434 of 15,039 mail-in ballots counted Friday by Douglas County election officials. These early ballots arrived in the election commissioner's office too late to be included in Tuesday's election results.
The additional votes gave Obama a 1,260-vote lead over Republican John McCain in unofficial returns. McCain won the popular vote statewide and four electoral votes.
The Obama campaign was actively contesting McCain for the Nebraska 2nd congressional district electoral vote and prevailed, further advancing the break-up of the former Republican "Red State" voting block.
The Nebraska development moves Obama's landslide victory up to 365 electoral votes. (Only Missouri remains officially undeclared, although it is likely to end up in the McCain column.)
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