You may have heard of this blue dot phenomena occurring here in Nebraska. These lawn signs are popping up everywhere in Nebraska District 2 which is basically Omaha, a city of half a million people in a state with two million. The state is red as hell. It's been red as hell since 1968. It used to be a reasonable red, which means the Republican politicians were not batshit crazy. They included Mike Johanns and Chuck Hagel and Dave Heineman and Charlie Thone. Now it's Pete Ricketts and Deb Fischer and Jim Pillen and gang of 32 legislators who do what they are told to do by the GOP powers that be.
The blue dot. Nebraska has, since 1992, a system that allocates electoral votes by congressional district. We have 3. District 3 is full of dying small towns and people who vote Republican because their daddy did and his daddy did and blah blah.. District 1 is Lincoln but contains enough small towns in the surrounding area to keep it red. Then we have District 2, Omaha and its surrounding area and is purple. The first time my vote counted was in 2008 when Barack Obama won the district and thus, one of the 5 Nebraska electoral votes went to him. The second time was 2020 when Joe Biden won the district and in 2024 Kamala Harris will win it because quite frankly people in this big city are sick of Trump's shit.
Oh The Republicans suddenly hate the system they put in. Ordered by their boy and his minions like Charlie Kirk and Cat Turd, the GOP tried to take it back and install winner take all this year because Trump is in trouble. It failed to come to pass in the regular legislative session and again during the recent waste of $200,000 on a special session that accomplished nothing. Recently the issue came up again because Trump is panicking.
Call yet another special session, Governor Pillen, and get this winner take all system installed by November 5th. Shhhhh, but the only other state that does this is Maine, and they can't change to winner take all after September 18th. So, on September 19th here comes Trumps lapdog, Lindsey Graham, to put the screws to the Republicans in the state legislature that Trump wants winner take all and that Kamala doesn't represent "Nebraska values" whatever the fuck that means.
Mike McDonnell is a state senator from Omaha. He used to be a Democrat then his feelings got hurt so he changed to Republican. He's a former Fire Union head from Omaha. He's also a professional Catholic pro-life advocate who has let that run his life. McDonnell got a call from Trump. He is the 33rd vote to do Trumps skullduggery and make Omaha irrelevant in presidential elections. Whay will he do?
Today Mike McDonnell announced he was NOT going to be the 33rd vote at this time. McDonnell is term limited out of the state legislature, so he's done. But Mike wants to run for Mayor of Omaha and if he blows up the system he's probably toast. So, Mike is not going to be that 33rd vote, at this time.
Pfew! At this time anyway. Meanwhile the blue dot signs permeate this city from I-680 east to the Missouri River. West of I-680 is scared, well off white people and not so many exist out there.
The blue dot is real. The excitement for Kamala is off the hook here. She will take the district and one electoral vote. Now we just hope the coattails take down District Two's milquetoast Congressman Don Bacon, a retired General who pretends to be nonpartisan but in reality, is just another MAGA vote in the House. He may be a nice guy, but politically he's no different than MTG, Matt Gaetz or Trump himself. His TV ads portray him as a reasonable sort who works with both sides to get shit done. Meanwhile the PACS that support him portray his opponent, State Senator Tony Vargas, as a commie loving criminal advocate spendthrift. Don stays nice, the PACS do the meat chewing.
The blue dot means that Bacon is in perpetual trouble. He won last time because too damn many people voted for Biden and Bacon. But the win was razor thin. This year, with the blue dot excitement, he may be fried bacon. Lets hope so.
Want a blue dot sign for your yard? Go to BlueDotNebraska.com and find out where and when you can get one. It makes one feel like you are not alone.
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