How Nebraska's 'blue dot' could be the deciding factor on Election Day
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🗓️ 1 November 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Returning now to our top story, the race for the presidency. |
| 0:04.0 | Once the final votes of the 2024 campaign are cast and tallied, |
| 0:08.0 | the final chapter of this election season may hinge on a blue dot far from any swing state battleground. |
| 0:15.0 | Lisa Desjardin is back now with this report. |
| 0:18.0 | Omaha Democrats in deep red Nebraska embody the symbol of their movement, a blue dot on the |
| 0:24.6 | state's political landscape. |
| 0:26.6 | Nebraska law gives each congressional district its own electoral vote, and the dot unpredictably |
| 0:31.6 | has come to represent how the area around Omaha could go to and be critical for Kamala Harris. |
| 0:39.0 | There's a focus on our district, and you feel like you matter. |
| 0:43.3 | We love the light shining on us this round. We're not being ignored. We're not a flyover state. |
| 0:49.3 | It started almost accidentally. After Kamala Harris became the presumptive Democratic nominee, |
| 0:55.4 | Jason Brown spray painted a blue dot on an old sign to represent Democratic-leaning Omaha. |
| 1:01.6 | I'm like, oh, a blue dot. I love it. It was artistic. I'm like, stick it in the front yard. I love it. |
| 1:07.9 | Then the neighbors wanted one. And then the neighborhood. |
| 1:12.4 | And dot, dot, dot. I look like I was trying out for the blue man group or an extra on a smurf |
| 1:18.5 | movie or something. They have now printed and handed out nearly 15,000 of the signs, |
| 1:24.6 | and everyone sees them, including Republicans. |
| 1:28.4 | I have a blue dot across the street from me, one house down. |
| 1:33.3 | It's fine. |
| 1:34.7 | I really do think that we need to be more accepting of the other side. |
| 1:39.7 | There's one sign that's a big red dot eating the little blue dots, if you've seen that one. |
| 1:47.1 | They're fun. |
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