NE: Magellan Strategies: Nelson is...well...Nelson

[mondale84]

Do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of Ben Nelson?

Favorable ...................................................................................... 36%
Unfavorable ................................................................................. 51%


If the 2012 election for the United States Senate was being held today, for whom
would you vote if the candidates were Ben Nelson, Democrat or Jon Bruning,
Republican?

Jon Bruning .................................................................................. 45%
Ben Nelson ................................................................................... 39%

Don Stenberg ............................................................................... 41%
Ben Nelson ................................................................................... 40%

Ben Nelson ................................................................................... 41%
Deb Fischer .................................................................................. 35%

Dave Heineman .......................................................................... 51%
Ben Nelson ................................................................................... 33%

[Tender Branson]

A Nelson internal has much better numbers:

Hickman Analytics (D) for Ben Nelson
11/5-10/11; 1,300 likely voters, 2.7% margin of error
Mode: Live telephone interviews

47% Nelson (D), 45% Bruning (R)
49% Nelson (D), 43% Stenberg (R)
50% Nelson (D), 37% Fischer (R)

http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/Nelson11282011.pdf

[Lief 🗽]

These numbers are relatively good, actually. He'll probably still lose, but at least it'll be respectable.