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Note: I promise this is the last you'll hear about the election from me for a while.

Nebraska is red. They don't get much redder. Check out the stadium on autumn Saturdays:

I remember a high school friend's basement. Her stepfather had renovated it into his Husker fan-den. It was a little creepy - red carpet, red furniture, football pictures all over the walls. The toilet was red and the wallpaper had some kind of Husker pattern all over it.

When the Nebraska primary rolled around last spring, I my dad told me that he was worried he'd be the only Democrat willing to show his face. He was wrong - it was standing room only and Obama kicked ass. That was true all over Nebraska, and the fact that the Dems had to fight hard in the primaries in the red red state of Nebraska is one of many reasons this is true:

See that little blue dot in Nebraska? That's District 2. Nebraska splits its electoral votes; two for the winner of the state, and one for the winner of each district. I'm proud of you, Nebraska, and you're one reason this is true:

Eat that, Steve's neighbor.