What would it take for NE-03 to vote Democrat?

[GregTheGreat657]

What would it take for Nebraska's 3rd congressional district to vote for a Democrat?

[If my soul was made of stone]

The Ogallala Aquifer drying up and subsequent sudden reckoning with the urgent need for general environmental stewardship.

[Tartarus Sauce]

Take a time machine back to 2006 and plant either a dead girl or live boy in Adrian Smith's bed so that Democratic candidate Scott Kleeb wins what would otherwise turn into a 10-point deficit race.

[patzer]

Option 1) It loses its 3rd district, but regains it in a following census when it's put in Omaha.
Option 2) Massive population growth of the Kimball County area as a part of "greater frontrange".
Option 3) Large amounts of wind farm growth in the area bringing in workers who vote for the party more likely to support their jobs.

[Skill and Chance]

Option 1) It loses its 3rd district, but regains it in a following census when it's put in Omaha.
Option 2) Massive population growth of the Kimball County area as a part of "greater frontrange".
Option 3) Large amounts of wind farm growth in the area bringing in workers who vote for the party more likely to support their jobs.

Wind farms don't require continuous labor like mines and oilfields do.  They are unlikely to ever employ enough people to dominate a local economy.  You would need a geothermal boom (requires continuous drilling/injecting) for that. 

[Schiff for Senate]

NE-03 is moved to where NE-02 (Omaha) is currently located.
Or, alternatively, there is a gigantic agricultural crisis in Western Nebraska that devastates the district and the GOP administration refuses to fix it, while the Democratic candidate promises to. Additionally, the Demcrats' V.P. nominee is a Nebraskite.
Even so, barring the district being moved to Omaha, I don't see how a district that voted for Trump by over 50% is going to just go blue.

[Skill and Chance]

Undiscussed as of yet: Fortune 500 tech company opens a WFH field office for employees seeking the lowest possible cost of living.

[TheReckoning]

Wayne Messam heading the ballot, with Seth Moulton as VP.

[pbrower2a]

1. The Democratic Party becomes the conservative Party as a socialist wing breaks off in the absence of a meaningful GOP.

2. Single-Party dictatorship with the Democratic Party as the only meaningful Party, 

[5280]

Option 1) It loses its 3rd district, but regains it in a following census when it's put in Omaha.
Option 2) Massive population growth of the Kimball County area as a part of "greater frontrange".
Option 3) Large amounts of wind farm growth in the area bringing in workers who vote for the party more likely to support their jobs.

With the cost of living skyrocketing in metro Denver, I wouldn't be surprised by this. The Scottsbluff area hasn't really surged in population over the last few decades in panhandle Nebraska.

[Former President tack50]

GOP attempts to gerrymander Nebraska, then Omaha's metro area somehow starts voting like San Francisco and the gerrymander backfires?

[Sol]

There's literally so much space for the Denver metro to expand in Colorado itself--it's nigh-impossible to imagine it going all the way to Nebraska.

Weld County has tons of open land still, as does eastern Arapahoe/Adams, Elbert, etc. Those places are extremely cheap and much closer to Denver than Scottsbluff.

[MarkD]

A comprehensive, drastic sea change in party realignment.

[Skill and Chance]

Dust Bowl 2.0, given that Dust Bowl 1.0 was the only time it ever voted Dem historically.