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Not two weeks after announcing their joint move to New York City, Peter Weber and Kelley Flanagan broke up. The former Bachelor announced the news in a New Year's Eve Instagram post that reflected on their time as a couple. 'Love is a funny thing,' he captioned the photo of himself and Flanagan watching the sunset. 'It can make you feel on top of the world and it can make you feel a pain you wish didn't exist. I'm here to share that Kelley and I have decided to go our separate ways.'
One thing Peter wants to make clear, however, is that his notoriously involved mother Barb had absolutely nothing to do with their split. In fact, he reportedly told Entertainment Tonight that his mom simply told them to do whatever would make them happy. 'Kelley and I broke up two weeks ago,' Peter said. 'I flew to Chicago and was finished with the relationship, then my mom really encouraged us to be in the relationship if we wanted to be and to not give up.'
Peter went on to explain that things didn't work out between him and Kelley because they're simply at two very different points in their lives. 'Kelley and I operate on two different frequencies, and one isn't better or worse than the other,' he told the outlet. 'We're just two different people, and those differences surfaced after eight months of dating. But I loved her like crazy, and my mom really cared about her.'
Why Split Stock
The former lead's most recent comments seem to be in line with what he said in his original post announcing their breakup. 'While our relationship was filled with countless beautiful memories, our relationship simply didn't work out in the end,' he wrote. Regardless, the pilot added that he will 'always have a special love for' Flanagan and wished her the best. 'These moments in life always hurt, but in my opinion that shows you it was worth the time you spent together,' he wrote. 'Thank you Kelley.'
Barb even weighed in on the split in the comments of Peter's post, wishing the exes the best of luck. 'Love can be fickle and it is not for the timid,' she wrote. 'Those who have experienced it know this all too well. But it is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all. Our hearts ache for you two. Kelley will always have a piece of our hearts and we wish her only the best. Mom and Dad.'
On Jan. 3, Kelley shared a message of her own confirming that she and Peter are in 'two different stages' of their lives. 'I know a lot of you have already heard the news, but I wanted to take some time to process it for myself before sharing,' she began in an Instagram caption. 'It saddens me to say this but Peter and I have decided to go our separate ways. Peter and I had some unbelievable times together and they will definitely be missed.'
After explaining that they saw their 'future paths differently,' Kelley said that she and Peter will continue to support each other. 'I wish Peter the absolute best and want to thank everyone for your continued support as I move on to my next chapter,' she wrote. 'I'm still hoping to make it to New York one of these days, but for now I just want to focus on my happiness! 2021, I can't wait to see what you have in store!'
The stress of their recent relocation to NYC reportedly led Weber to end things, per E! News. 'Peter ultimately was the one who ended it with Kelley, but she 100% agreed that they needed time apart,' a source told the outlet. 'They had been fighting a lot, and the move was very stressful and put a lot of pressure on them.' The source added that they spent the holidays apart — which explains their lack of Christmas photos and Flanagan's absence from Weber's mom Barb's birthday party — and Weber is already back with his family in Los Angeles.
Flanagan, a lawyer from Chicago, took fifth place during Weber's Bachelor journey (Season 24)and they rekindled a romance after his breakups with winner Hannah Ann Sluss and runner-up Madison Prewett. Flanagan was the only contestant to meet Weber before taping, where they felt an instant spark. At the time, their meeting and reconnection felt meant to be, but it looks like fate may have had other plans.
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As a vitriolic presidential race shaped by the Covid-19 pandemic and a growing divide between liberal and conservative Americans draws to a close, the election’s outcome looks increasingly likely to come down to just a handful of electoral votes.
The vast majority of states award the entirety of their electoral votes to the candidate who receives the most votes statewide—but two notable exceptions exist: Maine and Nebraska, both of which split their electoral votes through what’s known as the “congressional district method.”
Per the nonprofit electoral reform organization FairVote, this system—used in Maine since the 1972 election and in Nebraska since the 1992 race—allocates two electoral votes to the statewide winner but allows each congressional district to award one electoral vote to the popular vote winner in their specific locality. In Maine, this means that two out of four electoral votes can potentially go to someone other than the statewide winner; in Nebraska, three out of five electoral votes remain in play.
According to Savannah Behrmann of USA Today, Maine started splitting its electoral votes after seceding from Massachusetts, which also used the method, in 1820. The state switched to the more commonly used winner-take-all system in 1828.
More than a century later, in 1969, Democratic state representative Glenn Starbird Jr. of Maine proposed a return to the older split-vote method. Concerned that Maine’s electoral votes could be awarded to a candidate who received just 34 percent of the state’s popular vote (a potential outcome of three-way races like the 1968 presidential election, which pitted Richard Nixon against Hubert Humphrey and George Wallace), Starbird introduced a bill that was subsequently unanimously passed by Maine’s Republican-controlled legislature.
As former representative John Martin told Central Maine’s Paul Mills in 2016, state legislators approved Starbird’s bill under “the assumption that other states would follow suit.” But 20 years passed before another state made the change, and even then, the switch proved far more contentious than it had in Maine.
My wife @RebeccaSittler, a Nebraska native, reminded me today of why NE splits its electoral votes.
If Biden does not win PA, NE's single electoral vote (from districts around Omaha) will be why he has 270. THIS lone blue dot.
The reason is Ernie Chambers. pic.twitter.com/z2YVfannpi
In the words of the Associated Press’ Grant Schulte, Nebraska adopted the split-vote system in hopes of attracting “presidential candidates to a state they usually ignore because it’s so reliably conservative.” Democratic representative DiAnna Schimek garnered support for the change by reminding Republican legislators of then-presidential candidate Bobby Kennedy’s 11-city tour of the state in 1968. (At the time, Kennedy was campaigning against Senator Eugene McCarthy and Vice President Hubert Humphrey in the state’s Democratic primary, which he ultimately carried with 51 percent of the vote.)
“That was when Nebraska mattered,” Schimek told the AP last month.
Why Split Peas
Since implementing the congressional district method in 1992, Nebraska Republicans have repeatedly attempted to overturn the voting framework in favor of a winner-take-all system. Most recently, a 2016 bill fell one vote short of securing the change, failing in large part due to the efforts of state senator Ernie Chambers, as Tom Batchelor notes for Newsweek.
Based on the votes tabulated so far, key news organizations have called four of Nebraska’s five electoral votes for Republican President Donald Trump and three of Maine’s four for former Democratic Vice President Joe Biden. With the race down to a razor-thin margin, reports Dionne Searcey for the New York Times, Biden’s lone Nebraska electoral vote—awarded by the state’s left-leaning Second Congressional District, which encompasses much of the Omaha metropolitan area—could be the one that propels him to a winning 270.
Prior to the 2020 election, Nebraska and Maine had only split their electoral votes once. In 2008, Democrat Barack Obama won Nebraska’s Second Congressional District, earning the party’s first electoral vote in the state since 1964. In 2016, Trump won Maine’s Second Congressional District for the first time, marking the reliably Democratic state’s first Republican electoral vote since 1988.
Why Split Firewood
“In all likelihood, the race won’t be so close that a single electoral vote would decide the outcome,” Kyle Kondik, an analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, told the Omaha World-Herald’s Joseph Morton ahead of election day. “But it is important for the campaigns to compete everywhere that’s competitive, and NE-2 voters should think of themselves as living within their own swing state.”