Nebraska's Senate Race
 

From the Post...

"OMAHA — As a Trump-endorsed Republican in a deep-red state, Sen. Deb Fischer might expect an easy reelection. Instead, she’s in perhaps the tightest Senate race in America — so says the election data site 538 — against a rookie politician named Dan Osborn, a mechanic turned union leader with tattooed forearms and a level gaze. Fischer’s trouble boils down to what might be called a George Norris problem.

Around here, few discussions of Nebraska politics go very long before someone drops Norris’s name. Arguably the most important U.S. senator left out of the history books, the pragmatic Republican crossed the aisle in the 1930s to help Franklin D. Roosevelt bring electricity to rural America, among other big doings.

What he represents to Nebraskans, though, is the streak of independence that they consider to be a state brand. Valuing practicality over party, Norris in 1934 wore out two sets of tires and two windshields while campaigning by car across the state to shrink the two-house state legislature down to a single (“unicameral”) nonpartisan body. Nebraska is the only unicameral state in the country, and folks are mighty proud of that fact because it saves money and does the people’s work efficiently. Also, it makes them unique."
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