Posted on 11/10/2012 4:18:55 AM PST by SMGFan
Former North Dakota Attorney General Heidi Heitkamp (D) pulled off a major upset, narrowly defeating Republican Rep. Rick Berg in the race to succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Kent Conrad. North Dakota is one of the most solidly Republican states President Barack Obama won only 39 percent of the vote there and Heitkamp beat Berg by a razor-thin margin 3,000 votes, just 1 point.
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I think it is right to place blame , but on who? I will blame moronic, ticket splitters. And the RNC.
Self destruct in MO, blow it in IND where Romney won as well. Cannot make a good case to voters in WVA . At least we won NV senate.
Reminds me of the 1986 GOP Senate election disasters of 1986! Awful incumbents could not be relected without Reagan. .http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections,_1986 So many narrow loses.
Any chance for this fate to those elected 2008 with BHO?
We here in Louisiana plan to make a unified and systematic effort to take out Mary Landrieu in 2014.
Heidi will be a sure vote for obama’s carbon tax against big agriculture and his EPA’s stranglehold on the Keystone pipeline and midwest energy fields
well done, NoDaks
May you reap what you chose
I wil send money to help Mary hit the road
Hope you nominate someone who can keep his foot out of his mouth and not talk about rape and abortion.
“We here in Louisiana plan to make a unified and systematic effort to take out Mary Landrieu in 2014.”
Amen. The big bonus will be that her advertising wont be able to tell us all that she “saved our jobs.”
Yeah, nominating a moderate pro abort, pro gay marriage Massachusetts governor worked out GREAT for us, eh?
I thought we had to elect Romney because he was the most electable and could help us win downballot races.
Voter fraud in the Senate too. This election steal was very well orchestrated.
Many of these states that always vote Republican for president have preferred liberal Demo senators. Makes no sense but it’s been the case for decades. When Conrad retired I thought the GOP finally gets a chance at another seat in ND but no such luck. Supposedly Heitkamp ran away from 0bama and is pretending to be a moderate, just like Tester did in ‘06. Tester proved himself to be a big lib and he still won again! So voters in those states get what they deserve I guess. Too bad the rest of us have to suffer with them. All things considered I am surprised Flake won in AZ and Sen Heller managed to squeak though.
With a mere 45 seats now it isn’t going to be easy taking a majority in 2014 either.
Without reading the article I suspect the difference is all of the transient oil workers that are living there (I assume they could vote there due to their ‘temporary worker’ status). Bring a union guy in from Michigan to work the drilling site and their natural inclination is to vote Dem since Obama had not cracked down on them yet. Dumba**es . . .
McCaskill’s margin in MO was so big I wonder if she might have won even if some other Republican had won the primary. Despite her unpopularity over the health care vote her numbers were low but never that bad. And considering the Demo trend around the country and the big turnout among women concerned over the phony “war on women” issue I think Claire might have been able to win even without Akin. Maybe MO media should have done some polling on that.
Re: Indiana, Mourdock was down in some polls even before his “controversial” comments so I am not convinced he would have won anyway, but he did himself no good. Sour grapes by Sen Lugar’s supporters hurt too.
45 seats , just like after 1986. GOP STILL does not know how to win or keep what they have. I look at 1994 to 2006. Fortunately state legislatures in 2010 saved the House of Reps.
Maybe Dem voter turn out in 2014 will hurt theDems, but they will return in 2016.
Yes, likely stolen.
LA is one state where they have a good pick up opportunity. I would give anything to see that obnoxious whiny Soiled Harry Reid relegated to minority leader status.
It’s going to take another 1994 or 2010 style wave though to pick up 6 seats. GOP failures this year will have a domino effect unfortunately. But still, if there is a strong six-year-itch election they should be able to beat Demo senators in some red states like AK, SD, and NC, in addition to LA. Then if old guys like Harkin and Rockefeller were to retire there are opportunities there.
We never win the close ones!
Vote splitting occurs because of internal party intransigence. In other words it’s a fact of life.
For example, Should Chris Christie win the nomination for Republican Candidate for 2016, expect a vote split again.
Stop making pro-choice/pro-life a single issue for candidacy.
Stop categorizing all GOP moderates as RINOS.
The political spectrum rarely takes quantum leaps from Liberal to Conservative, you must pass thru the middle first.
“”Without reading the article I suspect the difference is all of the transient oil workers that are living there (I assume they could vote there due to their temporary worker status). Bring a union guy in from Michigan to work the drilling site and their natural inclination is to vote Dem since Obama had not cracked down on them yet. Dumba**es .”””
The farmers in ND always vote for a Dem Senator. They know where the subsidies come from. They are the welfare recipients of the prairie.
I think that most evangelicals voted for Romney as the lesser of two evils.
The difference was in vote suppression against Pubbies and manufactured votes for the Dems.
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