Nebraska held a non-binding primary yesterday. On February 9, 2008, Obama won the Nebraska caucus carrying 68% of the vote. While Obama had won 61 of Nebraska’s 93 counties in the caucuses, Clinton carried most counties Tuesday, winning 63. Nearly all the counties where results flipped were in rural parts of the state. A 4,000-vote victory margin in Douglas County was largely responsible for Obama’s statewide narrow 49% to 47% win. The difference in the two tallies reflects both a component of buyer’s remorse and the wholly undemocratic nature of the caucus system. As opposed to primary elections where voters can vote absentee and where the election is held over the course of the day, a caucus is held at a specific time and place. Military personnel serving overseas are disenfranchised and the caucus system discriminates against lower income voters who often can not get to the caucus at the specified time due to conflicts with their jobs or families.

More on this from the Omaha World-Herald.

And my favourite new face of the Democratic Party, Scott Kleeb, won the US Senate nomination for the Democratic Party. Scott, fourth generation Nebraskan and a dairy farmer, is also a historian from Yale. We need more historians in politics. Scott, by the way, is 32.