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Tune in Sunday nights at 10 pm for a live discussion of the week that was and the week that will be in Nebraska politics. Segments will be available throughout the week and past episodes can be found in NNN's archive at BlogTalkRadio.com.

Kyle is pissed-off by the endorsements of John McCain for president by Nebraska's two widest-circulated newspapers. Without a progressive voice in the local media, is it really asking too much even for a moderate, common sense voice open to the possibility of change? Luckily, a surge of 30,000 new Nebraska Democrats does offer some reason to hope - especially as Democrats retake the registration advantage in Douglas County. Also, don't miss Lisa's report on Hillary Clinton in Omaha, as well as our discussion of the latest barrage of negative attacks in the 2nd Congressional district's contest between Jim Esch and Lee Terry.

Republican Senate nominee Mike Johanns is caught-up in a scandal for campaigning on taxpayer's dime on orders from Karl Rove and the Bush Administration throughout 2006, but the Nebraska media doesn't seem to care in the slightest. Laziness on their part or just plain-old Republican bias? Regardless, with only 16 days left before the election, we're wondering how voters will ever be able to hold Johanns accountable for a record on which the Nebraska press won't even provide any honest reporting.

After watching the first McCain/Obama presidential debate, Kyle regrets the self-serving cynicism of American voters and the media. Meanwhile, Lisa reports on some very encouraging (and surprising) fundraising numbers for Obama in rural Nebraska. With the perilous state of the economy becoming THE issue in this campaign, we look at what this means for our local candidates. Finally, Nebraska's making national headlines for the unintended consequences of our broad "safe haven", child abandonment law. What happened and where do we go from here?

Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel mocks the Republican Party's Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin, especially her foreign policy credentials. The angry leadership of the Nebraska Republican Party responds by working to restore our state's irrelevant in presidential politics by moving back to a winner-takes-all system for awarding electoral college votes. Finally, Kyle's looking for feedback on his district-by-district breakdown of Nebraska's 2008 legislative races.

The regular crew discusses the national spotlight shining on Nebraska's 2nd Congressional District as Barack Obama fights for one of the state's electoral college votes. Meanwhile, Kyle rails on the Nebraska media for failing to hold Mike Johanns accountable while Scott Kleeb's campaign message comes more sharply into focus.