Heitkamp. From 1960 - 2018, there was always at least one Democratic Senator from ND. Looks like that trend has finally been broken.
Speaking of which... I get that Senate elections were less nationalized/partisan in 2004, but still, that something like this actually happened in North Dakota will never cease to amaze me, especially since Dorgan was hardly a conservative Democrat:
Byron Dorgan (D, inc.) 212,143 68.3%
Mike Liffrig (R) 98,553 31.7%
George W. Bush (R, inc.) 196,651 62.3%
John Kerry (D) 111,052 35.5%
I’ve never really understood why the Dakotas were so Democratic-friendly at the congressional level for such a long time (both ND and SD had an all-Democratic Congressional delegation not all that long ago, after all).
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