Here's something I never would've expected: it looks like Obama might pick up one of Nebraska's electoral votes. Now, I know some pundits were talking about that possibility. But I always thought it ranked somewhere behind "Obama turns out to be an extraterrestrial" in terms of plausibility.
So score one for my pretensions at being a master predictor! I don't know if you can take too much from this. It was a really bad year for the GOP, after all. Yet we can't write it off, either. The Mountain West states--Nevada, Colorado, Montana--have all taken a sharp turn towards the Democrats in recent years.
Are the Great Plains states going to be next? Will we see Oklahoma and Kansas turning blue in 2012? It's not quite the same situation as the Mountain West, granted. The GOP's dominance of the Great Plains is built more on social than economic conservatism. Still, if I was the GOP master planner, I'd be more than a little worried.
PS. Wait, does this mean Obama is an extraterrestrial? All those people who complained about his birth certificate being phony were right after all!
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