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Hoeven is going to run and he will crush Dorgan...espeically since Dorgan voted for HCR in such a red state.

Bye Bye Byron.

Emily,

Believe this is senate, not governor.

Still,

I agree. Hoeven is a saint in the state. Too bad he can't run both jobs.

Unfortunate. Byron Dorgan has been one of the best Senators to grace the Senate for the pas 25 years. Worked hard for his constituents and never gives into big money special interests (hence being one of the few Senators to vote against the 1999 Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act).

I hope Obama gives him a place in his administration. It would be well deserved.

I moved out of ND 2 years ago after living there for my first 30. It's hard to believe that a guy with a 61% approval rating could lose his seat.
Don't expect this to be a landslide if Hoeven runs, democratic congressmen have dominated the political scene in ND since 1900 thanks to ND farmers. They listen to their constituents and write gracious farm bills, good luck getting those paychecks with a member of the obstructionist party.

How do you get a 87% jov approval?

Or JOB approval.

" They listen to their constituents and write gracious farm bills, good luck getting those paychecks with a member of the obstructionist party"

I think any obstructionist party will do well in 2010.

Chris

To an extent you are right. Some of these red states like ND and also states like AR are very blue states except when voting for president. But that is because they are conservative states and voted for democrats who claimed to be fiscally conservative. But the HCR vote has exposed so-called conservative dems as nothing more than liberal lap dogs to pelosi and Reid.

These conservative states like MT, ND, SD, AR, LA, IN, etc will now begin to purge these phony conservative dems from there ranks and republicans will take there place.

For a long time these Dems were able to skate by in these red states while making claims of fiscal responsibility. But when push came to shove they showed there true liberal colors.

Dorgan is finished, Lincoln is finished and I'm callit right now, Bayh will be out in IN in 2010. You simply cannot spit in the faces of your constituants and expect to win re-election.

I doubt Hoeven will run in 2010 unless he wants to be a quiter like Palin. He sounds like a breed apart from Gingrich, Palin, Huckabee, Demint and other neocons; he sounds like a more old fashioned style Midwestern small government Republican.

I don't think that Mr. Hoeven can beat Senator Dorgan. There are rumblings that the TEA Party people aka the conservatives will break from the GOP. The North Dakota GOP and the Hoevenites that dominate it want to push out the conservatives. They might get their wish. If this happens, then Mr. Dorgan will repeat as Senator. John Hoeven is a big spending liberal leaning Governor who will just be a repeat of Byron Dorgan. The poll numbers don't matter. Dorgan will run ads showing how Hoeven donated to him the past (no lie) and its checkmate. It exposes Hoeven for what he is and that is a liberal Governor. John Hoeven is in fact killing the North Dakota Republican Party. It's their choice, they can still save it, but knowing their track record, they won't.