Cook Shifts Kansas, Nebraska Governor Races Toward Dems

The Democratic Party's image in places like Montana and Nebraska isn't great. So, in Nebraska, the state's Democratic Party opted not to run a candidate in the U.S. Senate race, and is backing an independent.

Herald op-ed, Democratic candidate Chris Backemeyer makes his pitch to voters in Nebraska's 1st Congressional District.

Reports detailing fundraising and spending after Oct. 19 through Election Day aren't due to the Nebraska Accountability and Disclosure Commission until mid-January.

In 11 rural Nebraska counties, voting by mail is the norm. Election officials say switching back to polling places could strain budgets and make voting harder.

Nebraska voters are casting ballots for governor, Senate and the state’s three US House seats. Contests for governor, Senate and two House seats could be competitive, according to ratings from the Cook Political Report.

Lynne Walz, Democratic candidate for Nebraska governor, names Nebraska farmer Ben Steffen as her running mate and the Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor. FREMONT, Neb. — The best job Lynne Walz ever had came right after she graduated from high school.

In this final stretch of the US midterm elections, Democrats and independents could win back communities and towns across America’s rural heartlands through a combination of resurgent “prairie populism”, local despair over the impact of Donald Trump’s agenda and an old-fashioned tenet of shoe-leather politics: showing up everywhere. When Dan Osborn rolled into one of the most rural counties in Nebraska earlier this month, he started walking into...