Can’t believe a great state like ND is stuck with this idiot and Heitkamp.
The state legislature has been quite conservative over the years (until lately when the Bakken Boom has put the kiddies in the kandy store).
But North Dakota has a long history of sending off the pork barrel guys to D.C., to keep the subsidies coming for farmers, old people and Indians, all of which there are many in the state.
p.s. You are probably aware that Hoeven runs as the moderate’s moderate while Heitkamp ran almost as a conservative, agin Obama and in favor of guns and oil.
The people of N. Dakota are NOT, on the whole, politically astute OR principled. They care about getting federal money. Some of them care about abortion.