Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a nonpartisan election handicapper from the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, is shifting their rating of Sen. Pete Ricketts’s (R-Neb.) seat from “safe

Independent populist Dan Osborn, whose insurgent Senate campaign seriously threatened one of Nebraska’s Republicans from securing a third term last year, is now taking on GOP Sen. Pete Ricketts — one of the wealthiest members of Congress.