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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,
Padilla, Ossoff and Warnock sworn in, sealing Democratsâ Senate majority
The subdued ceremony in the Senate chambers showcased the diversity that the Democratic Party promises to usher into the Capitol in the Biden era.
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Vice President Kamala Harris, center, followed by her husband Doug Emhoff, left, leaves the Senate chamber after swearing in the three newest members, Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., and Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., who replaces Harris s seat from California, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021. The victory by the two candidates in the pivotal Georgia runoff election this month was decisive in handing Democrats the majority in the Senate. [ J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE | AP ]