America is on the Trump Train

In a tight race Tuesday night, Donald Trump edged past Hillary Clinton to win the president-elect title. With Arizona, Michigan, and New Hampshire still not finalized as of Wednesday evening, Trump has 279 electoral votes to Clinton’s 228.
Around 1 a.m. MT Wednesday, Trump took the stage at his watch party in the Hilton New York, to announce that Clinton had just called him to concede, and give his victory speech.
“No dream is too big. No challenge is too great. Nothing we want for our future is beyond our reach,” Trump said.
Nebraska voted 60 percent in favor of Trump, and gave him all five electoral votes. Dawes County voted 70.17 percent for Trump.
Nebraska is one of two states that has adopted the Congressional District Method of distributing their electoral votes. This means that the electoral votes can be split between more than one candidate, as Maine chose to do, giving Trump one vote and Clinton three.
“These states allocate two Electoral Votes to the popular vote winner, and then one each to the popular vote winner in each Congressional district (2 in Maine, 3 in Nebraska) in their state. This creates multiple popular vote contests in these states, which could lead to a split Electoral Vote,” according to 270towin.com.
Other notable Nebraska state races were the District 43 legislative race and the referendum no. 426, which was on the ballot to repeal or retain the death penalty ban.
In the District 43 senatorial race, Col. Tom Brewer slid past incumbent Al Davis with 52 percent of the votes, as of the final unofficial report.
Voters chose to repeal the death penalty ban with 61.2 percent of the votes.
Dawes County had the fourth lowest voter-turnout in the state, according to the Nebraska secretary of state election results. Of 6,082 registered voters in the county, 3,699 ballots were cast.
The final unofficial results for Dawes County are as follows:

• President/Vice President
– Trump/Pence– 70.17 percent
– Clinton/Kaine– 21.52 percent
– Johnson/Weld– 5.10 percent
– Stein/Baraka– 1.32 percent
– Write-in– 1.89 percent

• NRD Subdistrict 3
– David R. Carlson– 54.37 percent
– Andy Curd– 45.24 percent
– Write-in– 0.39 percent

• Chadron City Council
– George W. Klein– 34.37 percent
– Keith Crofutt– 26.17 percent
– Jennifer Fintel– 23.63 percent
– Sean Waggener– 15.30 percent
– Write-in– 0.54 percent

• Chadron School Board
– Amanda Bannan– 25.08 percent
– Boone C. Huffman– 24.40 percent
– Gary A. Hoffman– 22.61 percent
– Andy Curd– 16.63 percent
– Mike Carattini– 10.93 percent
– Write-in– 0.35 percent

• Referendum No. 426
– Repeal– 69.33 percent
– Retain– 30.67 percent