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Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning applauds state Sen. Deb Fischer during a post-primary Republican unity event on Wednesday, May 16, 2012, at the state GOP headquarters in Lincoln. Bruning, once seen as the front-runner, was defeated by Fischer in the primary. (ROBERT BECKER/Lincoln Journal Star) ROBERT BECKER/Lincoln Journal Star
Fischer, Pete Ricketts
State Sen. Deb Fischer of Valentine visits with Pete Ricketts (right) after a post-primary Republican unity event on Wednesday, May 16, 2012, at the state GOP headquarters in Lincoln. Ricketts father, Joe Ricketts, financed a pair of advertisements that gave Fischer a boost the weekend before the Republican primary, in which she won the nomination for U.S. Senate. (ROBERT BECKER/Lincoln Journal Star)
The Daily Yonder Book Review: ‘Rural Rebellion – How Nebraska Became a Republican Stronghold’ Ross Benes’ political memoir lays out the failure of Democrats to reach rural constituents in Nebraska. Reviewer Matt L. Barron offers some solutions, along with his reflections on Benes’ “wonderful new book.”
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When I say Nebraska, you say what? Cornhusker football? The wonderful writing of Willa Cather? The Sandhills? How about a ruby-red state about as inhospitable for Democrats as Mars is for humans?
The chapter on Nebraska from my
Almanac of American Politics 1980 opens with this: “By almost every measurement – its preference in presidential elections, its congressional delegations over the years, its state politics – Nebraska has usually been the nation’s most Republican state.” So why is this? Some answers are to be found in a wonderful new book by Ross Benes,
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