NE: Public Policy Polling: Ben Nelson not dead yet, but remains in bad shape

[Tender Branson]

New Poll: Nebraska Senator by Public Policy Polling on 2011-10-02

Summary: D: 42%, R: 46%, U: 12%

Poll Source URL: Full Poll Details

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Do you approve or disapprove of Senator Ben Nelson's job performance?

Approve .......................................................... 36%
Disapprove...................................................... 55%

Do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of Jon Bruning?

Favorable........................................................ 32%
Unfavorable .................................................... 38%

[mondale84]

Nelson landslide

[greenforest32]

Nelson landslide

Maybe but 36%/55% approve/disapprove is pretty bad:

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Things aren't looking good for McCain though. It'd be awesome if we won Arizona's Senate seat in 2012 and its second seat in 2016 as McCain retires and the state is more Democratic due to minority population growth and more younger voters. PPP should have polled Arizona this week instead of Iowa again. >:/

[mondale84]

Nelson landslide

Maybe but 36%/55% approve/disapprove is pretty bad:

I was being sarcastic...I think Nelson can pull this out, but he should actually articulate positions on key issues rather than not. See:

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/11/advice-to-blanche-lincoln-speak-softly.html

[phk]

Nelson beat his last Republican opponent by calling him a tax-and-spend liberal.

[Heimdal]

Nelson is dead in the water.

[Meeker]

Nelson is dead in the water.

Which is why his poll numbers have improved in recent months.

[Username MechaRFK]

Nelson is dead in the water.

I wish so... sadly it isn't though.

[Heimdal]

Nelson is dead in the water.

Which is why his poll numbers have improved in recent months.

Which doesn't change the fact that he voted for Obamacare, in a state that Romney (or Perry) will carry with a solid margin.
His disapproval rating is 55%, and he will be unable to portray himself as a grubby conservative Democrat.

[Niemeyerite]

Nelson is dead in the water.

Which is why his poll numbers have improved in recent months.

Which doesn't change the fact that he voted for Obamacare, in a state that Romney (or Perry) will carry with a solid margin.
His disapproval rating is 55%, and he will be unable to portray himself as a grubby conservative Democrat.

Search Bob Kerrey. He was a liberal democrat

[Heimdal]

Nelson is dead in the water.

Which is why his poll numbers have improved in recent months.

Which doesn't change the fact that he voted for Obamacare, in a state that Romney (or Perry) will carry with a solid margin.
His disapproval rating is 55%, and he will be unable to portray himself as a grubby conservative Democrat.

Search Bob Kerrey. He was a liberal democrat

That is a valid point, but I imagine politics were somewhat less polarized during his tenure. You still had Republicans representing Vermont, Rhode Island and New York in the Senate then.

[Niemeyerite]

Nelson is dead in the water.

Which is why his poll numbers have improved in recent months.

Which doesn't change the fact that he voted for Obamacare, in a state that Romney (or Perry) will carry with a solid margin.
His disapproval rating is 55%, and he will be unable to portray himself as a grubby conservative Democrat.

Search Bob Kerrey. He was a liberal democrat

That is a valid point, but I imagine politics were somewhat less polarized during his tenure. You still had Republicans representing Vermont, Rhode Island and New York in the Senate then.

that's true, but you still have snowe and collins in Maine, Begich in Alaska, Johson in SD, Brown in mass.... why not Nelson in NE?

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Nelson is dead in the water.

Which is why his poll numbers have improved in recent months.

Which doesn't change the fact that he voted for Obamacare, in a state that Romney (or Perry) will carry with a solid margin.
His disapproval rating is 55%, and he will be unable to portray himself as a grubby conservative Democrat.

Search Bob Kerrey. He was a liberal democrat

Speaking of which, any chance he would consider stepping in?  If it's Bruning vs. Nelson and Bruning wins, I don't see it making much of a difference to progressives at all.

[HST1948]

Nelson is dead in the water.

Which is why his poll numbers have improved in recent months.

Which doesn't change the fact that he voted for Obamacare, in a state that Romney (or Perry) will carry with a solid margin.
His disapproval rating is 55%, and he will be unable to portray himself as a grubby conservative Democrat.

Search Bob Kerrey. He was a liberal democrat

Speaking of which, any chance he would consider stepping in?  If it's Bruning vs. Nelson and Bruning wins, I don't see it making much of a difference to progressives at all.

I don't think that he will.  He said a while ago that he was done with politics and from what I understand he now lives in New York City.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Nelson is dead in the water.

Which is why his poll numbers have improved in recent months.

Which doesn't change the fact that he voted for Obamacare, in a state that Romney (or Perry) will carry with a solid margin.
His disapproval rating is 55%, and he will be unable to portray himself as a grubby conservative Democrat.

Search Bob Kerrey. He was a liberal democrat

How long ago was that, again? 12? 15 years? During which America has become more polarized and more partisan.

[TJ in Oregon]

that's true, but you still have snowe and collins in Maine, Begich in Alaska, Johson in SD, Brown in mass.... why not Nelson in NE?

Nelson could have kept that seat as a conservaDem, but the ObamaCare vote really killed him. Partly because of the national attention he received leading up to the vote and partly because of the original deal he voted for that excluding the state of Nebraska from paying Medicare benefits. He went from being an out-of-the-way conservative Democrat in a Republican state to really, really unpopular in a matter of weeks. I have a friend from Omaha who told me a bunch of stories about Nelson getting heckled and people refusing to serve him in restaurants, etc.

Of course it's been a couple years now and it'll be another until the election so perhaps the rage has calmed some. But I'd be a little surprised to see Nelson surviving this one.