Competition for Nebraska's GOP Senate nomination gets more intense as Stenberg takes aim -- finally, thank God -- at Bruning's despicable comparison of welfare recipients to raccoons. "Yes, he called them raccoons," Stenberg says indignantly in a campaign ad. "Can you imagine such insensitivity? Raccoons are bright, intelligent, lovable." Stenberg's poll numbers among Tea Partiers go through the roof when he likens welfare recipients instead to sewer rats. #2012prediction