[Sans-Culotte]

Heitkamp said, “I think it’s devastating to the former president. And these events, we’re covering them a lot like a trial, but they really are a political event. I think the president, the former president, sees his popularity waning, and it’s no small amount of publicity that he’s getting here in terms of his unwillingness to see a rational argument when it’s presented to them.

[kiryandil]

Cheaty Cheatkamp's "election" to the US Senate in 2012 was another of those suspicious "Miracle Democrat Turnouts" for a US Senate race in a state where the Democrat presidential candidate got beaten like a red-headed stepchild:

2012 Nominee   Heidi Heitkamp	Rick Berg	
Party	       Democratic-NPL	Republican
Popular vote	  161,337	  158,401
Percentage	   50.2%	   49.3%

Nominee	       Barack Obama     Mitt Romney		
Popular vote	  124,966         188,320
Percentage	   38.7%           58.3%