The Omaha World-Herald has endorsed David Kramer for Senate in the Republican Party. At last check, he was polling in the single digits. The Republican race for Senate doesn't leave a desirable candidate to choose from, but given the Herald's obvious leanings it's actually quite a surprise they picked Kramer. The Omaha World-Herald generally isn't a paper that will come out and make a statement with an endorsement of a candidate with no shot at winning - especially in a high-profile race like the U.S. Senate. It makes them look foolish and out of touch with Nebraskans in general.
There's very little ideological difference between the three Republicans running for Senate and Ben Nelson. Ricketts is obviously going to be more pro-business... Don Stenberg is going to be an extremist Theo-con. Where the potential candidates differ with Nelson is illustrated perfectly in the person of David Kramer, and it's telling that the World-Herald chose him as their GOP Senate candidate. David Kramer is a Republican. He's a party loyalist through and through. He's a former Republican state chairman, and everything in his political career so far has been closely associated with the party.
The difference between these three candidates and Ben Nelson is, simply, that Ben Nelson will actually work with Democrats in the Senate. I'm not thrilled with Ben Nelson as my Senator - he doesn't represent the interests of the Democratic Party well. But he isn't a Joe Lieberman, destroying our party from the inside out. He's simply doing what he thinks the people of Nebraska want. And it's working - he's the most popular Senator in the country among his constituents. And when the opponents are a religious wingnut, a corporate suit, and a party insider, there are worse things to be than a conservative Democrat.
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I think you said it all with the party insider description of Kramer.
The Herald has always been a mouthpiece of the party.
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