Well, well, well, this is interesting. We’re looking at all the primaries tonight, but there’s also a special election in Nebraska’s 1st District for the remainder of the term in the current Congress. And now we’re on a surprise watch: Democratic state Sen. Patty Pansing Brooks is leading by about 11 points right now over Republican state Sen. Mike Flood, with 36 percent reported per the Associated Press. Now, before we go crazy, it does look like a fair bit of rural turf in this relatively red district hasn’t reported, but still, this is not at all what we expected to see here. I have a hypothesis: the overturning of Roe v. Wade has juiced Democratic turnout in a super low-turnout special election (Nebraska doesn’t have other notable elections on the ballot; its primary was in May).
