The Lincoln Journal Star reports that Adrian Smith is not on the host list for Hagel’s big fundraiser in Omaha. Fellow Republicans Lee Terry and Jeff Fortenberry, both rumored as potential Senate candidates should Hagel retire (though we’ve already ruled Terry out as a potential Senate candidate), are listed as hosts. Smith and State Treasurer […]
Archive for May, 2007
Don Walton has some more numbers from the poll last week that showed Hagel’s vulnerability among Republicans. Among the key numbers:
As we discussed last week, 51% of Nebraskans believe it’s time to set a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq. According to the article, that includes 35% of Republicans.
Hagel’s favorability rating is at 51%. Fahey […]
OWH:
The College World Series could be headed for a new home at a downtown ballpark and the venerable Rosenblatt Stadium could be going, going, gone.
Mayor Mike Fahey is actively pursuing the option of building a $50 million-plus ballpark in the so-called NoDo area between the Creighton University campus and the Qwest Center Omaha.
A tentative decision […]
Former UNO Dems Presidents Chad Brakhahn, Ryan Renner, and Cody Farrens, and UNO Dems member Megan Ring have all graduated from the University of Nebraska-Omaha today. These four have given so much of their time and effort to this group. It’s not going to be quite the same without them. Just remember, in the fall, […]
I’ll never have much of a career as a prognosticator. I think I’ve gotten three predictions right in the last several years, including Barack Obama’s entry into the Presidential race, and Jon Bruning’s preemptive challenge of Hagel.
But Chuck Hagel puts a whole new level of strangeness into the discussion. At this point, there’s no telling […]
Just in case you worried that I wasn’t going to have anything to talk about this summer…
LJS:
Attorney General Jon Bruning said Thursday he’ll not be deterred from a 2008 Senate bid by the fundraising power of Sen. Chuck Hagel or the “strong-arm tactics” employed by his political operatives.
“I’m as close as I can get to […]
The Nebraska Democratic Party released polling information today that shows Senator Chuck Hagel in an extremely vulnerable position among the Nebraska electorate. Take a moment to read over the numbers:
According to the findings of the recent statewide survey of Nebraska, Hagel is on a dangerous terrain, particularly if he is to face Bruning in […]
