I lived in Lincoln. My sister still does and it is super conservative. I bet the Lincoln Journal Star is going to have a lot of subscriptions canceled come Mon morning. But good on them for being honest.

Newspapers are on the way out. Maybe these endorsements are kind of a death bed confession. Might as well tell the truth. Why worry about subscriptions when you probably won't have a paper at all before long.

that I know of...

San Francisco Examiner
Winston-Salem Journal (last dem they supported for president was LBJ)
Lincoln Journal-Star

These endorsements are going to be devastating for Mitt. And there is no Rovian conspiracy to change this tide. Thank you, freedom of the press.

R&

But do they really have any effect on the outcome of the election?

And I am genuinely asking your opinion, btw

I think undecideds may be influenced. For some reason campaigns like to get these endorsements. There has to be something to them. But maybe it might be an endorsement for the opponent harms the candidate.

Thanks.

right wing. Catholics there are as right wing as they come and are at least 40% of the town--not even allowing altar girls--
and excommunicating a city council person for not declaring Planned Parenthood to be evil.

Senator Johanns started out as Mayor Mikey while we were there. And boy, what a vacuous
guy he is.

When we moved to NE, they had two Dem Senators (Jim Exon and Bob Kerrey) and a Dem governor (Ben Nelson). Maybe the pendulum
is going to swing...I sure hope they don't send that Sarah Palin clone to the Senate!

That city, then, the city of Democratic Mayor Helen Boosalis, the city where Gov. Bob Kerrey took his girlfriend, Debra Winger, out to the Zoo Bar on Saturday nights after football games -- that city was split about 50/50 along party lines even if the Unicameral wasn't.

Do you still have family there? Go back? I swore when we moved I would NEVER
set foot in the state of NE again. To me, the state motto should be "Ignorant and
proud of it".

We go to Lincoln to visit family and to get a breath of fresh air from the poison spread by Kansas politics (and the stench wafting up from Oklahoma).

You want ignorant and proud of it? Come to Kansas, then drive south to Oklahoma.

My grandfather was a democrat in the state legislature when the Republicans in Kansas were moderate. He's probably turning over in his grave at the state of Kansas politics.

Nebraska (being a college town and all). The Journal Star is a much more fair newspaper than the wingnut Omaha World Herald.

I've found that Lincoln is fairly blue, but the second you get outside town it's solid red, same with Omaha.

The nice part is that the rural parts of the state are shrinking and the cities are growing, eventually the cities will have enough people that they will outnumber the rural folks and Nebraska should swing back to the reasonable column. It's just a matter of time.

I have family in Omaha. They must be gnashing their teeth over this. lol

I don't know what the numbers are in NE, but I know AZ is going to suprise everyone
due to the latino population being fired up.

And because the state awards its electoral votes according to congressional districts, Obama won a single vote from the state. Not purple, necessarily, but a kind of maroon.

On the 2nd District showed it as a 44-44 race so look for it to be really close again this year.

Omaha and Lincoln are purple, the rest of the eastern part state is fairly red, the western part of the state is off the scale red. Not many people out there, but very conservative.

Awesome find! K & R

those days are gone. So this is a BFD.

As stated, the economy was on a fast track to disaster due to Republic policies and bullshit.

President Obama did not let that happen.

Everything else is a distraction.

Mission accomplished and more!

Four more years!

To be a Nebraskan!

And from the Lincoln J-Star, no less. Wonder how my RW family in NE will react...

People of honor and integrity realize the Romney-Ryan Republicans are all about making the rich richer.

Obama has done well even with the dirty hand the ReSkunkies dealt him at the start of his Presidency, and their idiotic, anti-American stance to block every positive initiative the Dems have put forward.

It should be made into a campaign ad as it really rocks. It will be interesting to see what they have to say regarding the Senate race between Bob Kerrey and Deb Fischer. (She has been bankrolled by Joe Ricketts, who wants big government handouts to modernize his Wrigley Field property).

and the Cubs are the only team amongst all sports that I care about, much less sociopathologically obsessed with. "It's Hard." ann romney

THank you, NEDem!

Who knew all these Papers who endorsed McCain last time..cared about "The Middle Class"? I guess they are the ones buying their newspapers?