Democrats see a rare opportunity in Nebraska's U.S. Senate race, where independent candidate Dan Osborn is mounting an unexpectedly competitive challenge against Republican incumbent Deb Fischer.Nebraska has backed Republicans in every presidential election since 1964.

Osborn has also rejected the kind of less-is-more, kumbaya-style centrism commonly espoused by independents taking on Republicans, in favor of an anti-corruption, pox-on-both-their-houses populism — albeit one delivered in a soft voice with little audible emotion.

A key toss-up district in Nebraska is shifting in Democrats’ direction, giving the party a slight boost as it seeks to take control of the House next year. Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District, held by Rep.

Independent labor union leader Dan Osborn has raised a lot of money in recent months, and polls have tightened enough that the Cook Political Report has shifted their forecast for the race from “Solid Republican” to “Likely Republican.

Allegations flew Monday in Nebraska’s most competitive U.S. Senate race, with one campaign threatening legal action over campaign advertising and a report about talk of “Hitler Youth.” Nebraska nonpartisan candidate Dan Osborn’s campaign sent a cease and desist letter to an outside group advertising in support of U.

A seemingly non-competitive Senate race in deeply Republican Nebraska is no longer a safe bet for two-term incumbent Sen. Deb Fischer.

It allows counties to draft workers. Omaha's Douglas County is the only one to regularly use it. Here’s how the jury duty-like system works.

Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen said Tuesday that he has “no plans to call a special session” to change the way the state allocates electoral votes to a winner-take-all system, ending an effort led by Donald Trump.

Recent reports indicate that Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz may not have been in China in the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests in 1989, as he said.

The battle for the White House could come down to a single Electoral College vote from a single congressional district in Nebraska. It's unlikely, but plausible.

Nebraska State Sen. Mike McDonnell told ABC News Prime anchor Linsey Davis that the push to change the state’s electoral college allocation “did not seem fair.”

If Ms. Harris were to win the “blue wall” and lose the Sun Belt swing states, the single electoral vote in Greater Omaha could determine the winner of the presidential election.