Oh, that’s right. So that covers, what, 2007-2008? I hope he was doing something awfully important prior to that that he refused to run against Dorgan in 2004 (or against Conrad in 2000 for that matter).
Might be personal reasons why he didn’t run. He was apparently doing several things from the 2000-07 period, briefly serving at one point as an aide to the Secretary of the Army. Of course, I also noticed he’ll be 66 in 2012, so it’s possible he may again decline to run, not wanting to spend his retirement years in DC. He really should’ve run in either 2000 or 2004.