The election will not only be historical on the national level, history could also be made in Nebraska. The Obama Campaign is hoping to get one of the state's electoral votes. Even though electoral votes can be split in Nebraska, it's never happened.

Electoral votes and the Electoral College are two things many voters aren't always clear about every election. Here's a quick break down.

Each state's electors are chosen by popular vote and each one gets an electoral vote. There are 538 total in the U.S. Iowa has seven electoral votes and Nebraska has five. For most states, whichever presidential candidate wins the most votes gets all the electoral votes from that state.

Nebraska and Maine are different. Two of Nebraska's electoral votes go to the candidate with the state majority. The other three are divided up between Nebraska's three congressional districts, each district getting one vote.

It's district number two that the Obama Campaign is targeting. That district covers all of Douglas County and part of Sarpy County. Both the Democrat and Republican campaigns stayed busy Tuesday making a last-day push to get their voters to the polls.

"In the last week-and-a-half, we've had over 100 unpaid volunteers making phone calls and knocking on doors in the second congressional district," said Nebraska Republican Party Chairman Mark Quandahl.

It's that second congressional district that's making for a lot of extra phone calls this election. When it comes to votes in the presidential election, for the first time in Nebraska history, Democrats are aiming to win that district's one electoral vote.

"I think it's going to be very, very close but we feel cautiously optimistic." sais Obama Campaign Nebraska Director John Berge." So what we're doing is we're calling them (voters), reminding them where their polling place is, asking them if they need a ride, asking them if we can be of any assistance at all."

While Democrats hope to make history, Republicans plan to keep it the same, with no splitting of Nebraska's electoral votes. "It's never happened," said Quandahl. "It's never happened in the past and it's our job to make sure that it doesn't happen in 2008."

Nebraska has had the possibility of splitting its electoral votes since 1996, but it's never been done.

The electors formally vote on December 15th. Although they can vote for whichever candidate they choose, they traditionally choose the one with the majority of their voters' votes.