Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen has expressed support for awarding all of the state's electoral votes to the presidential candidate who wins statewide, in contrast to the current system based on congressional districts. This move aligns Nebraska with the majority of states that use a winner-takes-all approach. Previously, Nebraska and Maine were the only states to allocate electoral votes differently.
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen (R) has backed a conservative-led effort to award all of the state’s electoral votes to the presidential candidate who wins statewide. Though Nebraska has been a Republican stronghold for years, the state’s system, as well as Maine’s, for awarding electoral votes has been at odds with the rest of the country by instead awarding those votes based on the congressional district as opposed to the winner-takes-all statewide popular vote .
Theoretically, a presidential candidate could win the state but still lose one electoral vote if their opponent won in a congressional district like Omaha. For example, Barack Obama won a single electoral vote in 2008 and Joe Biden won the same in 2020. Here’s how Natalie Venegas described it in In all but two states, Maine and Nebraska, electoral votes are winner-take-all as the candidate winning the popular vote normally receives all of that state’s vote
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