DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Republican Sen. Deb Fischer of Nebraska, a two-term incumbent who won previous Senate races by at least 14-point margins, is in a race too close for comfort with just 18 days to election night.
Fischer holds just a one-point lead over Dan Osborn, an independent candidate who has never held public office, according to FiveThirtyEight polling averages, making the Nebraska contest the closest race in the country in terms of polling.
“This race should not be close,” Randy Adkins, University of Nebraska Omaha political science professor, told the Daily Caller News Foundation in an interview. “She should be winning by a very healthy margin—and she’s not.”
Osborn, backed by progressive dark money groups, has managed to put traditionally ruby-red Nebraska in play for a Democratic pick-up through his campaign’s cultivation of a…
