NE: Republicans feeling confident with Osborn

[RogueBeaver]

C4G out with statewide anti-Dinsdale TV spot. Dinsdale camp says they'll respond this afternoon.

[RogueBeaver]

Johanns blasts outside groups on a conference call, but as expected no endorsement.

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Bauer endorses Sasse.

[RogueBeaver]

$320k of anti-Dinsdale ads from C4G and 60+.

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Dinsdale fires back.

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Dinsdale will spend $225k on ads in the next few days.

[RogueBeaver]

Johanns comes close to predicting a Dinsdale win.

[RogueBeaver]

Another Sasse internal, from Politico: he leads 34/23/20 with others at 11 and undecided 12.

Dinsdale massively plagiarized his issues page from Bachmann and McCain, among others.

Toomey endorses Sasse.

[moderatevoter]

Bachmann? I mean out of all people to plagiarize from...

[RogueBeaver]

WSJ says private polling has a MOE race. Surely if someone had different numbers they'd put them out? Still kinda amazing that all polls have either been either public crap or internal/quasi-internal.

[RogueBeaver]

In the past week: $748k of airtime for Sasse, 210 for everyone else. WaPo also says smart money's on Sasse.

[Maxwell]

At this rate, I say Dinsdale narrows the gap some, but ultimately, Sasse gets a decisive win.

38 Sasse
32 Dinsdale
23 Osborne

And who cares about the rest. Which is a shame, because of the field, Osborne is probably my favorite.

[RogueBeaver]

Fischer's former campaign manager predicts a Sasse win.

Max: Osborn never really got traction beyond residual name ID. Pity cause he'd also be a great Senator, but there won't be an open seat for another decade (Fischer said she'd serve 2 terms). Somehow this got way too ugly and he was on both ends of it.

[RogueBeaver]

PBS source: Sasse favored to win by high single digits.

[RogueBeaver]

What we've been waiting for: geography to watch.

[IceSpear]

What are the differences between these 3 candidates? Just rhetoric and style?

[RogueBeaver]

Osborn is McConnell's man. Not ideologically or by design (he started his political career by trouncing a Heinemann-appointed incumbent in '06) but by default because Sasse got SCF's backing, feuded with McConnell and got a lot of TP support. Sasse's running as the TP-backed candidate, though he and Osborn are ideologically identical. Dinsdale's Generic Self-Funder.

[IceSpear]

Osborn is McConnell's man. Not ideologically or by design (he started his political career by trouncing a Heinemann-appointed incumbent in '06) but by default because Sasse got SCF's backing, feuded with McConnell and got a lot of TP support. Sasse's running as the TP-backed candidate, though he and Osborn are ideologically identical. Dinsdale's Generic Self-Funder.

Interesting. Thanks.

Are there any ideological differences between Dinsdale and Osborn/Sasse?

[SWE]

Osborn is McConnell's man. Not ideologically or by design (he started his political career by trouncing a Heinemann-appointed incumbent in '06) but by default because Sasse got SCF's backing, feuded with McConnell and got a lot of TP support. Sasse's running as the TP-backed candidate, though he and Osborn are ideologically identical. Dinsdale's Generic Self-Funder.

Interesting. Thanks.

Are there any ideological differences between Dinsdale and Osborn/Sasse?

Dinsdale is probably the most moderate of the three, as he supports raising the debt ceiling, but beyond that, I don't see much actual ideological differences between the three candidates

[RogueBeaver]

Counties to watch.

[publicunofficial]

Following Lee Terry's slim primary win over underfunded Some Dude Dan Frei, fed-up conservatives are seeking to get a conservative Independent on the ballot for November.

Nebraska election law allows for an Independent to be on the ballot if they A) Gather 2,000 signatures (Frei got 22,000 votes in the primary) and B) Said Independent must not be a registered member of any political party, and must have been registered as such since at least January 1st 2014.

As it so happens, the most likely person to be recruited for this Indie run is former State Sen. Chip Maxwell, who changed his political affiliation from Republican to Independent on December 31 2013.

The organizers of the effort figure that by doing this, they would throw the election to Terry's opponent, Bruce Ashford, who the reason would be easier to beat in a 2016 General than it would be to beat Terry in another primary.

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The name of this thread looks wildly inappropriate in hindsight.