Ben Nelson’s Retirement Hurts Senate Democrats’ 2012 Chances
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Dec. 28 (Bloomberg) -- The uphill climb for Democrats todefend their 53-47 Senate majority next year just got steeperwith the decision by Nebraska’s Ben Nelson not to seek re-election.
Nelson, 70, became the seventh member of the SenateDemocratic caucus to announce his retirement, saying in avideotaped statement yesterday that “it’s time to move on.”