Quote Originally Posted by ReluctantSamurai View Post
Overlooks the fact that she is the first black woman ever to be elected to Congress in Missouri, and that her Democratic opponent in the primaries was a well established corporate Democrat in a family that dominated District 1 for nearly 50 years.
Are you insinuating that the voters who for decades voted for a Black man for congress would all of a sudden reject a Black woman? Im not saying that its not an accomplishment to be the first Black woman ever to be elected to Congress in Missouri, but the election wasn't exactly close to begin with. But now lets take Kara Eastman, a progressive, in Nebraska's 2nd District. She lost her race but Biden won her district, which netted a valuable electoral college vote.

We'll have to agree to disagree here. I'm in the contingent of folks who voted in this election for Biden/Harris not so much as support for them, but a rejection of Trump/Pence. It's speculation that noone else was capable of defeating Trump, and that Bernie would've gotten crushed.
Well considering that Bernie got utterly shellacked in places like Michigan and Wisconsin during the primary, I think we do know how it would have gone.

On the topic of Nebraska-02 though, I saw something last night which suggested that while getting rid of the electoral college wont happen as it requires a constitutional change, a setup like Maine and Nebraska have could be a way forward with proportional EC votes in each state. Thoughts?