Hey Reid Wilson, Ben Sasse may not “ fit neatly into the outsider construct”, but he comes with the right endorsements and that works for us yokels out here in flyover land.
But really Reid, your column sounds a lot like a couple of teenagers whistling as they walk by the graveyard.
Bttt
I was born in Nebraska and spent the first part of my childhood there. I still consider it one of my “homes”. (My Dad had “itchy feet” and we moved a lot.)
I am hoping Nebraska will send a good man to the Senate.
Did you notice the only comments are from liberals.
The most impressive thing in this whole article is the fact that his pontoon boat is fast enough to pull water skiers! I wanna see that sucker get up on plane ;-)
What the snide liberal doesn’t say is that Sasse was a non-factor in this race until January, when it was Shane Osbornes to lose. But that was before Ben Sasse put out an attention-grabbing video suggesting the way to fix the federal bureaucracy would be to move it to Nebraska - and started running a one-issue campaign: Anti-Obamacare.
Still, it’s not wholly accurate to label Sasse the tea party candidate in the race.
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Well, well, well....the downwardly spiraling Washington Post can’t quite bring itself to admit that a strong Tea Party Senate candidate just whooped ass on the establishment’s boys. Oh well, we’ll let them alone with their vivid imaginations.
Omaha, Douglas County with 220 precincts and 25 percent of entire population; NO Precincts Reported.
Lots of Room for Holder’s Peeps to dump off trunkloads of ballots.
When your state supports Keystone 10 to 1, is it wise for the dems to nominate someone who vehemently opposes it.
From Ballotpedia:
Dave Domina is a 2014 Democratic candidate seeking election to the U.S. Senate from Nebraska. Domina is a well known Nebraska trial lawyer who is currently representing landowners fighting to stop construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline. Domina has been listed as one of the top 100 trial lawyers in the nation by the National Trial Lawyers Association
And is a top 100 trial lawyer*. Not the candidate I would put up.
*probably a freind of John Edwards
Domina’s opponent must have been really bad as he beat him tonight 69% to 31%.
“Sasse has a PhD. He wrestled at Harvard, quarterbacked the Oxford football team (real football, we’re told, not soccer). In total, he has five academic degrees: A bachelor’s from Harvard, a Master’s from St. John’s College in Annapolis, Md., two Master’s degrees from Yale and a Ph.D.”
... And he’s all handsome and stuff with an adorable family. That academic CV of his is formidable. His background is all in government, history, and Health and Human Services. I’ve never even heard of this guy before. Shows how much I know.
Something’s wrong. No way do Republicans get this lucky. Someone tell me what the HELL is going on.
The worst I can say about him is he’s an Ivy Leaguer. But so is Ted Cruz. Perhaps they will reverse the terrible trend we’ve had with Ivy League presidents since Reagan.