{"id":1883,"date":"2024-11-12T06:21:36","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T06:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/the-politico-race-to-watch-nebraskas-2nd\/"},"modified":"2024-11-12T16:29:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T16:29:11","slug":"the-politico-race-to-watch-nebraskas-2nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/the-politico-race-to-watch-nebraskas-2nd\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blue Light News race to watch: Nebraska\u2019s 2nd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Candidates: Rep. Don Bacon (R) vs. state Sen. Tony Vargas (D) Ad spending since Labor Day: $10.6 million for Democrats, $11.7 million for GOP Past results: Bacon and Vargas first ran against each other in 2022, with Bacon pulling out a win by less than 3 percentage points&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/10\/22\/2024-elections-live-coverage-updates-analysis\/politico-race-to-watch-00184898\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Candidates: Rep. Don Bacon (R) vs. state Sen. Tony Vargas (D) Ad spending since Labor Day: $10.6 million for Democrats, $11.7 million for GOP Past results: Bacon and Vargas first ran against each other in 2022, with Bacon pulling out a win by less than 3 percentage points&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2153,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions\/2153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}