• Ben Nelson

    NE-Sen Poll Watch: Democrat Senator Ben Nelson in Deep Trouble

    Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., left, and Sen. Mike Johanns, R-Neb. are seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011, prior to the start of President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address

    More than likely a GOP Senate pick-up in 2012.

    Every poll released so far on the 2012 Nebraska Senate race has shown Ben Nelson in deep trouble and our numbers are no exception. Nelson trails Attorney General Jon Bruning 50-39 in a hypothetical contest and Treasurer Don Stenberg by a 45-41 margin.

    It’s not hard to peg the reason for Nelson’s precarious situation: you need to have a lot of appeal to Republicans if you’re going to win as a Democrat in Nebraska, and while Nelson had that in the past he doesn’t seem to anymore. The 2006 exit poll showed him winning a pretty remarkable 42% of the GOP vote. Now his approval rating with Republicans is down at 26%, and he gets just 17% of their votes against Bruning and 16% against Stenberg. Nelson actually has a 9 point advantage with independents over Bruning and a 17 point one over Stenberg but that’s not enough given his lack of crossover support in the heavily GOP leaning state.

    The GOP will need to flip four seats to take control of the U.S. Senate and this WILL be one of them.

  • Ben Nelson,  Obamacare

    Obamacare: American Voters “Mostly Disapprove” By 17 Points

    Nebraska Democrat Senator Ben Nelson as the Joker (Graphic Courtesy of Michelle Malkin)

    The joke is on the Democrats as American voters overwhelmingly oppose Obamacare health reforms.

    As the Senate prepares to vote on health care reform, American voters “mostly disapprove” of the plan 53 – 36 percent and disapprove 56 – 38 percent of President Barack Obama’s handling of the health care issue, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.

    Voters also oppose 72 – 23 percent using any public money in the health care overhaul to pay for abortions, the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University poll finds.

    And, Senator Ben Nelson,a Democrat in red state Nebraska who provided the swing vote to invoke cloture and push the Senate health care reform bill forward is particularly feeling the heat.

    Joker indeed and one who will be soon feel the wrath of Nebraska voters.


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  • Ben Nelson,  Day By Day,  Obamacare

    Day By Day December 21, 2009 – He Works Hard for the Money

    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    Democrat Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska provided the 60th vote necessary to invoke cloture and speed a watered-down version of Obamacare to a full Senate vote. It is being called by the GOP as “Cash for Cloture.”

    It was the concern of Nebraska’s Republican governor over expanded Medicaid costs in the proposed Senate health care overhaul bill that led to a compromise to cover his state’s estimated $45 million share over a decade, U.S. Sen. Ben Nelson said Sunday.

    Gov. Dave Heineman “contacted me and he said this is another unfunded federal mandate and it’s going to stress the state budget, and I agreed with him,” the Nebraska Democrat said. “I said to the leader and others that this is something that has to be fixed. I didn’t participate in the way it was fixed.”

    But Heineman expressed anything but gratitude, saying he had nothing to do with the compromise and calling the overhaul bill “bad news for Nebraska and bad news for America.”

    “Nebraskans did not ask for a special deal, only a fair deal,” Heineman said in a statement Sunday.

    That criticism is only a taste of what Nelson has received since announcing Saturday that he would become the 60th vote needed to advance the landmark legislation.

    Despite the perks Nelson managed to garner for Nebraska in finally agreeing to support the overhaul bill, the backlash from those who wanted Nelson to hold a hard line against the measure was immediate.

    Abortion foes howled in protest. Nebraska Right to Life, which has long endorsed Nelson, issued a scathing statement that dubbed Nelson a traitor. The state’s Catholic bishops followed Sunday with a statement that they were “extremely disappointed” in him.

    The chairman of Nebraska’s Republican Party declared Nelson’s decision to be the end of his political career in Nebraska, and within hours of Nelson’s announcement, the state GOP launched a Web site, , to collect funds to oust the Democrat in the 2012 election.http://www.givebentheboot.com

    Nebraska’s Republican Sen. Mike Johanns said he was “stunned and incredibly disappointed,” and called the compromise’s abortion language a “watered-down accounting gimmick that leads to Nebraska taxpayers subsidizing abortions in other states.”

    The Obama sanctioned Senate bill must now be voted upon by the full Senate and then proceed to a House-Senate Conference Committee where it will be reconciled.

    Stay tuned as the more LEFT members of the House attempt to place back “big government” and abortion-funding provisions which were summarily removed from the Senate version.

    What was noteworthy on the Senate vote, was that NO GOP Senators voted for the bill. The Democrats own this bill and will OWN all of the tax increases and deficit spending.

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