LINCOLN- With the election less than 24 hours away, a gargantuan number of political mailers have been clogging Nebraska mailboxes.

Matching the record year of spending on state and local races, candidates have stated that they've had more resources to send out increased numbers of direct mail postcards and flyers.

Well-funded campaigns for the State Board of Education have fueled a deluge of bizarre campaign literature, which may stretch the truth a bit.

One of the most surprising mailers received by Nebraskans this year was from The Nebraska Federation for Children, who sent a postcard depicting a shirtless, long-haired man they believed to be Legislative candidate George Dungan. However, the picture depicted one of Dungan's friends, not the candidate.

Preserve the Good Life, another large PAC in Nebraska, sent several mailers targeting Republican Legislative candidates. In one of these, Preserve the Good Life claimed that Christian Mirch, opponent of Senator Machaela Cavanaugh, was the Douglas County Chairman of former President Trump's campaign. Problem is, he was not.

Mirch's campaign sent out mailers this year claiming that "Cavanaughs support Mirch." However, the Cavanaughs portrayed in the mailer, OPPD board member Mike Cavanaugh and MUD board member Tim Cavanaugh, are not related to Senator Machaela Cavanaugh.

According to Randall Adkins, a political scientist at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, using hyperbole helps mailers grab attention. It's also very easy to target specific demographics in the state, so some candidates have found it useful to have different mailers for different demographics, ages, and genders.

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