Ben Nelson endorsement coming soon? [View All]

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While Mr. Obama trails Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in endorsements by their Senate colleagues, a half dozen or so Democrats were seen as likely candidates to lend public support to the Obama campaign in the coming days.

“There have been some conversations, I can say that,” said Senator Ben Nelson, the moderate Nebraska Democrat. Mr. Nelson, who invited Mr. Obama to campaign for him in 2006, said he has not yet pulled the trigger on an endorsement but that he was more inclined to consider one now since two Senate Democrats — Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware and Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut — had dropped out.

“When there were four of your colleagues, it certainly made it virtually impossible to do so,” Mr. Nelson said earlier this week. “You get to two and it is just a little bit easier.”

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