Ashford (D) leads Terry (R-NE) by 4,100 votes with 15,000 to count
Source: Omaha World Herald
By Henry J. Cordes and Joseph Morton
Lee Terry was clinging to his political life early Wednesday as his congressional battle with Democrat Brad Ashford turned cliffhanger.
Ashford held a narrow lead, as he had throughout the night, and it appeared that the trending math favored the challenger.
But the vote count in Douglas County was slow in coming in, and election officials said thousands of mail-in ballots that had arrived in the election office in recent days remained to be counted.
That means it could be days before voters know the outcome of what has been among the hardest-fought and tightly contested House races in the country. Terry even raised the possibility that it could take weeks.
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