2024 ELECTION POSTMORTEM
Hanging with the Electoral Vortex
Me and The Terminator at the Omaha mini-mart
Riding out the election in the beer cave
On November 5th, I decided to ride out election day at the center of the universe, an inconspicuous mini-mart at the corner of 45th & L Street in Omaha, Nebraska. And the safest place to weather the storm was in the bowels of the mini-mart, the beer cave, where the electoral vortex kept me company.
Leading up to the election, it was possible, if not probable, that Nebraska’s Congressional District Two, aka the “Blue Dot,” and its “single pesky electoral vote” could be the difference between a Harris victory or defeat; so much so that an epic six-month battle was waged over Nebraska’s electoral college framework that made the Blue Dot possible: the distribution of some of its electoral college votes at the district level.
State Senator Mike McDonnell, who I’d like to think gassed up at the mini-mart in the middle of his district, State District Five, took a stand against the Mar-a-Lago forces pressuring him to put his weight behind changing Nebraska’s electoral voting system to “winner-take-all,” just six weeks before the election. In an unexpected turn, Mike stood his ground. But this only made it…
