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Ben Nelson (D-NE) To Retire
Multiple sources are reporting that Nebraska Democrat Ben Nelson will not seek re-election to the US Senate in 2012.
This certainly is not good news for the Democrats and their effort to retain control but it may not be all bad.
Keeping the Nelson seat was going to be hard and now they can likely write the seat off and focus resources elsewhere.
But it does increase odds that the narrow Democratic Senate will become a narrow Republican one in 2013.
One Response to “Ben Nelson (D-NE) To Retire”
I don’t know…it really depends on what the Republicans do between now and next November and how the economy does. The Republicans might get a narrow majority or the ability for the Democrats to ignore Nebraska might make a difference in other contests.