Anyone who knows Nebraska - and Nebraska football - knows how unbelievable this is. Tom Osborne led the University of Nebraska to three national championships. He had never received less than 82 percent of the vote in his winning races. But he lost yesterday.
In politics, anything can happen.
Aside from the fact that the Osborn camp may have initially taken the race too lightly, it also appears that Heineman's campaign outworked them on the ground:
According to National Journal's On Call blog, Heineman's campaign manager Carlos Castillo "attributed his win to his GOTV ground game, including micro-targeting voters, and appealing to the agricultural vote in the GOP rich 3rd Congressional district."
