Nebraska Pitches In One EV

I saw this tonight--click on title for link to the daily kos article.

One of Nebraska's Congressional Districts has been declared for Obama, which will earn him one additional electoral vote and bring him to 365.

Nebraska and Maine are the two states that allocate electoral votes to the winner of each Congressional district, with two going to the statewide winner.

I advocate this change for all states, particularly those that are not swing states, as an attempt to make Presidential elections a bit more democratic and less subject to manipulation by state election administration authorities. It's a small reform compared to what I really advocate, which is the abolition of the institution of the Electoral College in its entirety.

I posted on this previously--see "Anxious in NM", and a more lengthy discussion last month on 538.com: http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/10/omaha-nebraskas-one-electoral-vote-is.html