Nebraska GOP Gov. Jim Pillen introduced Tuesday he won’t name a particular legislative session to vary how the state allocates its electoral votes, dashing Republican hopes that the change might occur earlier than November. Former President Donald Trump and his allies have been pushing state lawmakers to modify to a winner-take-all system, through which the presidential candidate who carries the state receives all 5 of its electoral votes. At the moment, three of the state’s votes are awarded to the candidate who wins every of its three congressional districts. Pillen stated in an announcement that Republicans nonetheless don’t have the…
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By Richard Levick For Medium “How I wish, how I wish you were hereWe’re just two lost soulsSwimming in a fishbowlYear after yearRunning over the same old groundWhat have we found?The same old fearsWish you were here” – Roger Waters & David Gilmour of Pink Floyd Almost 40 years ago I was reading a short story by Jerzy Kosiński — the Polish novelist most famous for his novel Being There — about a protagonist who is drowning in the opening scene, only to find an island, where he builds a simple but sustainable life by his shipwrecked self. In the…