Nelson Trails Big in Nebraska

Nebraska Democratic Senator Ben Nelson has fallen well behind some potential Republican challengers, according to a new poll. Despite Nelson's strategy of portraying himself as a moderate, his vote on ObamaCare and the political bribe used to get it by the White House, has apparently backfired. Nelson has not announced his retirement, but looking at numbers like this is would appear more likely that he hangs it up.


This polling comes from Public Policy Polling, which generally has a small bias towards Democratic candidates. However, it is the only poll of this race to be released this early.

The poll places the incumbent Nelson against the current Republican Attorney General Jon Bruning and State Treasurer Don Stenberg. The results show that if Nelson wishes to win he has a lot of work to do.


Bruning: 50%
Nelson: 39%
Other/und: 11%


Stenberg: 45%
Nelson: 41%
Other/und: 14%


Nelson is able to lead some lesser-known Republicans in hypothetical matches:

He's up 42-35 on state Senator Deb Fischer and 42-33 against conservative activist Pat Flynn.

If Nelson wants to run in 2012 he had better start fundraising now. It doesn't look like he'll have another term.


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