Nebraska
Nebraska is not a winner take-all state. Nebraska is the first state in the modern era to have a split electoral decision.
Electors: 4, pledged to John McCain and Sarah Palin; 2 at large, 1 for each of the 1st and 3rd Congressional districts. 1 pledged to Barack Obama and Joe Biden:
- Charles Thone of Lincoln, NE, elector for Nebraska's 1st congressional district pledged to John McCain and Sarah Palin.
- William Forsee is of Bellevue, NE, elector for Nebraska's 2nd congressional district pledged to Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
- D. Neal Smith of Gering, NE, elector for Nebraska's 3rd congressional district pledged to John McCain and Sarah Palin.
- Norman Riffel of Springfield, NE, at-large elector pledged to John McCain and Sarah Palin.
- Patricia Dorwart of Sidney, NE, at-large elector pledged to John McCain and Sarah Palin.
Read more about this topic: List Of United States Presidential Electors, 2008
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“What should concern Massachusetts is not the Nebraska Bill, nor the Fugitive Slave Bill, but her own slaveholding and servility. Let the State dissolve her union with the slaveholder.... Let each inhabitant of the State dissolve his union with her, as long as she delays to do her duty.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)