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6. North Dakota (up 4 spots) No candidate has overperformed early expectations as greatly as Heidi Heitkamp, the down-home former state attorney general who has fought GOP Rep. Rick Berg to an early tie for a seat that has been in Democratic hands for 52 years. She outraised Berg during the pre-primary period by about $50,000 and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has rewarded her early progress with a $1.2 million October investment. Her ads — including one that touts a law she lobbied for extending prison time for rapists — are some of the most poignant of any Senate candidate of the cycle. Heitkamp has displayed little reluctance to diss her own party and the president, which will increase the pressure on Berg to step up his game and aggressively prosecute her past statements on policies like the health care law. Who Won June: Heitkamp Latest poll: Heitkamp 47 percent, Berg 46 percent (Mason-Dixon, 625 likely voters, June 4-6) If you're wondering why Rick Berg's corrupt, big-money, out-of-state, thug supporters brought a lying big-city tracker into North Dakota to infiltrate Heitkamp's campaign and to try to get video footage of Heitkamp making some kind of campaign gaffe, stories like the Politico story should make it clear why; slumlord Rick Berg and his scared, and he has reason to be scared. Berg has no legislative accomlishments after being in Washington for nearly two years. He has nothing he can point to from his years in the North Dakota legislature as a proud moment (other than secretly helping his companies draw tens of thousands of public dollars from Workforce Safety & Insurance). He's afraid to debate Heitkamp. Republicans don't even like Rick Berg. He's not a personable candidate. The Koch Brothers crime family has legitimate reasons to be concerned about North Dakota in 2012. It might be more expensive than they previously thought for them to buy another U.S. Senate seat here.
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nimrod
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This, from former Dave Catanese, a former KFYR TV reporter who now works for Politico...|
The flip side . . . Perhaps we should praise those civic-minded Koch brothers for creating jobs that can be filled by marginally-employable young men (inferred to be children of card-carrying Republicans) who don't have and don't want to develop critical thinking skills. |
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big jake
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... Heidi is an easy choice. Berg is just bad news. However, with all that said, at this point, her election will not yield the important changes that are necessary for prosperity to be returned. It is not her interest in doing good that is the issue. It is the same issue that has prevented good people from doing good for some time. The issue is a failure to understand the workings of our economy and seeking the changes that are required. Even the best of our political leaders, including Obama, see that the application of more and more band-aids will be effective. I will support Heidi to the maximum that I am able. I would hope that will she runs this campaign that she really could win, she would seek more answers to todays issues. I would hope that here stance on Obama is pure politics and done in an effort to sway some voters that just don't like the President. Please Heidi, consider that is upon the advice and policy established by "experts" that have put is in this situation. It have been growing since 1952. That is when our national and personal debts began their march towards the cliff. Virtually all other national issues flow from this phenomenon of converting from and earned income economy to a debt based economy. I would suggest that we have hit the end of this era and the band-aids just will not fix the problem this time--even short term. Answers do exist. It requires taking the road less traveled. COURAGE. Heidi is in a unique postion to push back against the tide of the nation wreckers and begin the process of creating "America, as intended". |
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