Tuesday was Republican primary day in Nebraska.\u00a0 Incumbent Senator Ben Nelson is retiring, making this an open seat, the type where a party change is most likely to happen.\u00a0\u00a0 The Democrats have decided to run retread Bob Kerrey to retain the seat for Democrats, a tall order in a state that doesn’t care at all for Barack Obama.<\/p>\n
Republicans had three main candidates:<\/p>\n
Jon Bruning is the Attorney General of Nebraska and had an unstoppable lead in the polls up until last weekend, hovering around 45%.\u00a0\u00a0 He was the “Establishment” candidate, including the fake tea party being run by the Republican Party under the name of “the Tea Party Express” and Freedom Watch, run by Dick Armey\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 With Romney now securely lined up, the establishment fell in line – endorsing Bruning was Rick Santorum, Mike Huckabee, the US Chamber of Commerce, Nebraska Right to Life,<\/p>\n
Don Stenberg was the Ron Paul candidate, polling around 15-20% of the vote.<\/p>\n
Deb Fischer is a relatively inexperienced state legislator [bio<\/a>].\u00a0\u00a0 Education was her main focus when running for state office.<\/p>\n So what happened in the last week of the campaign that caused a shift of 12% of the vote?\u00a0\u00a0 Sarah Palin endorsed her.\u00a0 Mrs Fischer won the primary by 41% to 36% (the Ron Paul candidate getting 18%)<\/p>\n Republicans – are you paying attention? \u00a0 The problem in 2008 was John McCain, not Sarah Palin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tuesday was Republican primary day in Nebraska.\u00a0 Incumbent Senator Ben Nelson is retiring, making this an open seat, the type where a party change is most likely to happen.\u00a0\u00a0 The Democrats have decided to run retread Bob Kerrey to retain … Continue reading