republicans need to net three seats. the president wins re-election, they need four. the retirement of ben nelson and the president s low approval rating in the state were supposed to make nebraska an easy gop pick-up opportunity. then democrats recruited probably the only guy with a chance to win statewide. bob kerrey. mao the hand-picked republican candidate, rising star, john bruining is fighting off not one but two serious challengers. john stenberg. he s the backing of club for growth and senator jim demint s conservative fund. but the person to watch right now is deb fisher. a rancher and state senator. she s never held statewide office and suddenly she s got momentum. fisher getting attention for this ad featuring two angus bulls named after her competition. tired of the same old politician bull? deb fisher is a sand hills rancher, sharp as barbed wire, tougher than a cedar fence post.
with the owner of a company he officially oversees. rick had spent $200,000 on that attack ad. bruning s campaign is running 11th hour ads. they focus on investments bruning made while in office despite a salary of $95,000. if fischer wins she ll have crushed the establishment candidate and the candidate with the most tea party support, stenberg. the establishment versus insurgent narrative gets another test later this month when texas lieutenant governor faces a slew of challenges, including ted cruz, a former state solicitor general. it s a busy day in american politics. president obama speaking out for the first time on the jpmorgan $2 billion blunder. in that interview with the view. he took a surprise league easy time on the company s ceo. jpmorgan is one of the best managed banks there is.
kurrkur kerrey from coming back to the united states senate. we ll give you a crash course in our brand new app full of the latest news, analysis, even battleground maps for you to make and play with at home and on the go. good morning from washington. it s tuesday, may 15th, 2012. this is the daily rundown. the president s trip to new york had a little something for everybody in his re-election campaign. a nod to women in hopes of growing the gender gap. an embrace of enthusiastic donors happy with his new gay stance and an awkward attempt to raise wall street money while bashing some of wall street s practices, at least when it come to you mitt romney practiced them. he had a commencement address at an all-female college. but the address was less your traditional pearls of wisdom. it sounded a lot more like a political speech. young folks who marched and mobilized and stood up and sat in from selma to stonewall didn t just do it for themselves. they did it for other
raise wall street money while bashing some of wall street s practices, at least when it come to you mitt romney practiced them. he had a commencement address at an all-female college. but the address was less your traditional pearls of wisdom. it sounded a lot more like a political speech. young folks who marched and mobilized and stood up and sat in from selma to stonewall didn t just do it for themselves. they did it for other people. that s how we achieve women s rights. that s how we achieved voting rights. that s how we achieved workers rights. that s how we achieved gay rights. now a new new york times /cbs poll out this morning claims romney leads the president among women, 46/44, which would reverse the numbers from a month ago. obama gets 43% in a head-to-head matchup but his approval rating is at 50%. it was a call-back survey, not a traditional poll. the respondents first interviewed back in april. feels like one of those polls, no matter how method logically