selection of Nebraska voter reactions at the polls Tuesday.

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“I’m a deficit guy. That’s my No. 1 thing. People don’t understand how much money $16 trillion is. It scares me. We have to do something to bring the debt down,” said 36-year-old Chris Sullivan, of Omaha, a Republican and a financial adviser who said he voted for Mitt Romney.

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“(Romney’s) not exactly my favorite, but at least he’s run a business, he’s got some experience. (President Barack) Obama is just in over his head. Obama has been insulting and divisive,” said Tammy Janzen, 47, a Republican computer software specialist and part-time macroeconomics teacher at College of St. Mary in Omaha.

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“To me, Obama seems like he’s putting a legitimate and unbiased thought process into his policies,” said Travis Davis, 28, who works for a community learning program in Lincoln. “I just get the sense that Romney will say anything to get elected and that he’s more partisan.”

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“The middle class, we’re dwindling away,” said Kathy Spruill, a case coordinator for a Lincoln insurance company who said she voted for Obama. “I’m a 50-year-old woman. I work hard. I get up every day to go to work. And I just think it’s important that our voices be heard.”

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“”It concerns me that we allow ourselves to build this kind of indebtedness,” said Rich Stites, 70, of Lincoln, who said he voted for Romney and Republican U.S. Senate candidate Deb Fischer. “It’s not that they will make (the debt) all go away. I just have a sense that they’ll be more prone to limit any increases in the cost of government.”

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“Elections have been negative since Lincoln’s time. It’s not a new concept. We’ve always had people try to point out the bad side of their opponents. It’s just the way it is,” said 61-year-old Pat Dougherty, of Omaha, an information technology specialist who declined to say who he voted for but acknowledged being a registered Republican.

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“I just don’t feel that President Obama has done what he could have and should have, and Obamacare is the biggest one for me. I almost defy any member of Congress to tell me they had read that entire bill before they voted on it. And that angers me, because they have put us into a position where we don’t even know what is all in that,” said 75-year-old Jan Paulson, of Omaha.