Elections Morning Digest: As Nebraska Senate race unexpectedly tightens, Rove rides in

[Coyotl]

Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: As Nebraska Senate race unexpectedly tightens, Rove rides in
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/10/30/1152207/-Daily-Kos-Elections-Morning-Digest-As-Nebraska-Senate-race-unexpectedly-tightens-Rove-rides-in

Whaddya know. There's now a third recent poll showing a (very) unexpectedly close Senate race in Nebraska. The Omaha World-Herald (once again utilizing local pollster Wiese Research) finds Republican Deb Fischer edging Democrat Bob Kerrey by just a 49-46 margin—much tighter than the 56-40 spread they saw in Fischer's favor in mid-September. (New pollster Pharos had Fischer up just 48-46, and a Kerrey internal had her ahead 50-45.) Fischer tried to pre-empt the OWH news with a poll of her own (from POS), showing her ahead by a commanding 55-39 margin.

So is it possible the race is actually close? Kerrey's been hammering Fischer hard over a lawsuit her family brought against their neighbors over 104 acres of prime riverfront grazing land; the Fischers argued they were the proper owners, but a court decisively rejected those claims. Kerrey's run ads like this one, in which he says Fischer "sued her elderly neighbors to take their land," costing them $40,000 in legal fees.

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And well, well, well. Look who's showing up at the last second to bail Fischer out: That's right, Karl Rove's American Crossroads. There's no word on the size of the buy as yet, but according to The Hotline, Crossroads "is going on the air in Nebraska for the final week of the Senate campaign."

P.S. Pharos's newest poll (out on Monday) had Kerrey back just three ...........

[Lisa D]

1. Hopefully, Rove is too late.

That Kerrey ad has been really effective. Fischer won a 3-way primary against two high profile candidates, so she's not a well-known name in Nebraska. That ad really defined her as *not* a nice person. I'm really hoping Omaha and Lincoln come out strong for Kerrey.

Here's a website about the case:

http://www.fischerlandgrab.com/

[Coyotl]

2. “welfare ranchers” OUCH!

... sweetheart subsidy deal from the federal government, which has cost taxpayers $3 million and earned them the title of “welfare ranchers.”

[sammytko]

6. What about her three adult sons all having been stopped for DUI/DWI?

Does she have grandkids?

[Sunlei]

3. The good people of Nebraska value and care for their land.

I'm sure they have noticed it's Republicans who want to trash the land with toxic sludge pipelines. Republicans who granted the money to destroy thousands of acres with the Meduna disaster.

[bkkyosemite]

4. Why does everyone let Rove ride in..

In my dad's day they would take that rolly polly behind the wood shed for a good spanking.

[Coyotl]

7. I expect NE will react to outside money much like ND is doing = Red State voting in Blue Senator

Heidi in ND is destroying the meme that Berg was the unbeatable incumbent.

The negativity and outside interest interventions backfire with the down-home folks

[WI_DEM]

5. The people of NE should ride turd face out of the state.