Ben Nelson Retirement Exposes Efficacy, Waste Of Outside Money

The money's been spent already:

Nelson, a two-term senator who was expected to be one of the most vulnerable incumbents running in 2012, received support from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in October, when the committee transferre­d $1.2 million to the Nebraska Democratic Party, a 527 group, to run advertisem­ents in support of Nelson. Also coming to Nelson's aid was Majority PAC, a Democratic super PAC run by former Senate leadership aides, with $406,344 in television ads.

The ads from both the Nebraska Democratic Party and Majority PAC were aired to address a barrage of ads from the conservati­ve nonprofits Crossroads GPS and Americans for Prosperity­. In an October interview with the Capitol Hill paper Roll Call, Nelson said that the outside help was a "response to all the negative ads that were run about me by Americans for Prosperity and Karl Rove's PAC, and so it's more in that line than anything else."

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