VIEWPOINT | Will Walz keep Nebraska's blue dot blue?
Column by Froma Harrop
The 2024 presidential election, we are told, will be decided in a handful of battleground states. The race is so tight that a single Electoral College vote could determine the outcome. And that explains the great focus on Nebraska's 2nd congressional district, which often votes Democrat but not always.
Nebraska is one of only two states that splits its Electoral College votes rather than use a winner-take-all system. Each of its three congressional districts awards one Electoral College vote to whomever wins the popular vote within the district. (Maine is the other state.)
The 2nd district is mostly Omaha. It went for Barack Obama in 2008 and Joe Biden in 2020 — but Donald Trump in 2016. Democratic strategists like to call it the Blue Dot in a sea of red. Some refer to the district as the seventh or eighth battleground state.
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