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Nebraska: Senate Conservatives Fund Warns Against Fortenberry Bid

An influential conservative group has warned its members about a potential Senate bid from Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, R-Neb.
The Senate Conservatives Fund declared, “BEWARE OF FORTENBERRY,” in a Wednesday email.
“Congressman Fortenberry has a big-spending…

Nebraska: Mike Johanns Won’t Seek Re-Election

Nebraska Sen. Mike Johanns, who was a safe bet to win a second term in 2014, announced Monday that he would forgo re-election.
“With everything in life, there is a time and a season. At…

Nebraska’s US Senate race could be tightening

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – Nebraska’s U.S. Senate race that once appeared headed for a blowout has gotten newfound attention with a frenzy of spending on political ads and some polls showing the race could be…

Millions pouring into tight Senate races

By Paul Kane, Washington Post

With the Senate majority potentially in the balance, tens of millions of dollars have poured into more than a dozen states for the final push in an unusually large cluster of competitive…

Steve Martin comes to Senate candidate’s aid with ‘wad of paper’ video

By John Brandt, FoxNews.com
Comedian Steve Martin may be the closest thing America has to a Renaissance man: actor, novelist, screenwriter, musician, and now, home crafts expert. The man of many talents has also used…

Nebraska Senate candidates spar at debate, promise compromise if elected

By Ben Wolfgang-The Washington Times
In a bid to attract crucial independent votes, both candidates for Nebraska’s open Senate seat are stressing their willingness to buck their own party when necessary.
At a debate in…

Nebraska GOP chooses Senate challenger for Kerrey

By PHILIP ELLIOTT, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Bob Kerrey won the Democratic nomination for Nebraska’s open U.S. Senate seat Tuesday while Republicans decided a tight three-way race that reflected the divisions within the GOP.…

Deb Fischer Surges as Republicans Fight to Finish Line

By Steve White, Nebraska.tv
The man to beat for U.S. Senate may be a woman. Deb Fischer surges as the race attracts national attention and big money from a prominent family. Jon Bruning may still…

Outside group airs $200k in anti-Bruning ads in Nebraska

By MAGGIE HABERMAN | Politico
The Nebraska U.S. Senate primary race between Deb Fischer and AG Jon Bruning is wrapping up, and a third-party group that hadn’t stated its preferred candidate has nouw bought $200,000…

In Nebraska race, it’s all about N.Y.C.

By DAVID ROGERS | Politico
To hear Republicans tell it, former Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey is so poisoned after a decade in New York City that he can’t go home and run again.
But one…

Former Kerrey aide says Neb. Democrat is reconsidering US Senate run, could decide this week

Associated Press
OMAHA, Neb. — Democrats might yet have a lifeline in their quest to hold on to Nebraska’s open U.S. Senate seat this year, and once again it’s former Sen. Bob Kerrey giving them…

Part of Neb. city’s illegal immigrant law rejected Part of Neb. city’s illegal immigrant law rejected

(AP)  OMAHA, Neb. — A federal judge on Monday rejected a portion of a Nebraska city’s ordinance that would have denied housing permits to illegal immigrants but upheld a requirement that employers verify the citizenship…

Bob Kerrey says no to Senate bid

CNN Political Editor Paul Steinhauser

(CNN) – Former Sen. Bob Kerrey said Tuesday that he won’t run for the open Senate seat in Nebraska that he once held, deflating Democrats hopes of keeping the seat in…