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Hit list: Most vulnerable Senate Democrats
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| Contributor | Jason |
| Last Edited | Jason Nov 16, 2010 03:38am |
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| News Date | Thursday, November 11, 2010 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman John Cornyn has consistently insisted that regaining control of the upper chamber would be a two-cycle process. With the party committees already busy firing rockets at prospective opposition candidates, the second half of his timeline is under way.
Democrats have 23 seats to defend in two years and as many as nine seem potentially competitive. With the GOP just four seats short of its goal, POLITICO pinpoints the five Democrats currently at the top of the Republican target list.
Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson
It took all of three days after the election for the first Republican to throw his hat in the ring against the two-term Nelson. Attorney General Jon Bruning took the initial step of forming an exploratory committee after popular GOP Gov. Dave Heineman signaled he would stay put as chief executive through 2012.
“I’m not a guy who plays games. I didn’t think there was any advantage to playing coy,” Bruning told POLITICO.
Nelson, who cruised to reelection by 28 percentage points in 2006 despite being outraised 2-to-1, is seen as considerably more vulnerable now because of his vote for the stimulus and his role in the health care reform debate. |
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