Daily Kos Elections: Possible Heitkamp run for ND-GOV

[JRP1994]

https://twitter.com/DKElections/status/549989993175732224

Interesting possibility. RIP that seat for Dems if so.

[Miles]

Its possible that McCaskill, Heitkamp and Manchin all run for Governor in 2016.

[Vega]

I think she'd be better off running for re-election to the Senate.

[Maxwell]

She ran for Governor first but lost by 10 points to Hoeven, who is basically the most popular person ever there, so I think she'd have a good shot in a slightly Democratic year.

[Lief 🗽]

Oh god please no.

[Attorney General, Senator-Elect, & Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Keep her in the senate.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Nooooo! We need her in the Senate!

[SWE]

RIP any chance of a Democratic senate

[Talleyrand]

Guys, the only evidence of this is that she refused to rule out a run for governor about a year ago. Don't worry too much.

[moderatevoter]

Guys, the only evidence of this is that she refused to rule out a run for governor about a year ago. Don't worry too much.

Talleyrand is telling Democrats not to worry? Sign of an apocalypse.

[SWE]

Guys, the only evidence of this is that she refused to rule out a run for governor about a year ago. Don't worry too much.

Talleyrand is telling Democrats not to worry? Sign of an apocalypse.

This must mean 2016 will be an unprecedented democratic landslide

[Türkisblau]

The safer route for her career could be a governor run in 2016 due to the strong possibility of Hillary being elected and 2018 being another horrible midterm year resulting in her being dead in the water.

[Vosem]

Apparently a bill has been introduced in the North Dakota legislature that would abolish gubernatorial Senate appointments and replace Senate vacancies with special elections to discourage her from running for Governor, since a special election would be a nearly-certain Republican pickup.

[Sol]

Apparently a bill has been introduced in the North Dakota legislature that would abolish gubernatorial Senate appointments and replace Senate vacancies with special elections to discourage her from running for Governor, since a special election would be a nearly-certain Republican pickup.

Is she strongly favored in the governorship?

Also, did she vote for the Keystone Pipeline? If so, that could really hurt her in a statewide election.

[Free Bird]

The safer route for her career could be a governor run in 2016 due to the strong possibility of Hillary being elected and 2018 being another horrible midterm year resulting in her being dead in the water.

Always finds its way back to the Great Female Savior

[Miles]

Is she strongly favored in the governorship?

Also, did she vote for the Keystone Pipeline? If so, that could really hurt her in a statewide election.

She did, but so did Hoeven. Other than Landrieu, Heitkamp and Hoeven were the ones arguing the hardest for it.

[IceSpear]

plz dont heidi

[Xing]

I don't think she will. Even though 2018 will be a midterm, she'll probably have a better chance of getting re-elected as an incumbent than as a challenger in 2016.

[Maxwell]

I don't think she will. Even though 2018 will be a midterm, she'll probably have a better chance of getting re-elected as an incumbent than as a challenger in 2016.

If any Republican in North Dakota can lose, it's Jack Dalrymple.

[Senate Minority Leader Lord Voldemort]

If she loses her Senate race in 2018, then she could run for governor in 2020.

That would be what I would want her to do if she lost her Senate seat in 2018.

[ElectionsGuy]

Is Jack Dalrymple (if I spelled that right) unpopular? I don't know, but if so, its a possibility, though that Senate seat is gone. A Democrat has not won the North Dakota governorship since 1988, but from 1987-2011 Dems controlled both Senate seats through the Conrad/Dorgan duo. She has a much better chance trying to hang on to the Senate seat.

[sg0508]

Her victory in 2012 was somewhat of a surprise as most expected Berg to pickup that seat in a presidential year.  However and again, ND voters still have no issues sending Democrats to Congress on their behalf and she supposedly ran a good campaign.  Even if the presidency stays Democratic in '16, I could see her winning in '18.  So, I'm not so sure that she would want to run for governor.

[Sol]

Is she strongly favored in the governorship?

Also, did she vote for the Keystone Pipeline? If so, that could really hurt her in a statewide election.

She did, but so did Hoeven. Other than Landrieu, Heitkamp and Hoeven were the ones arguing the hardest for it.

Hmm, not good. The Lakota might not support her, in 2016 or 2018.

[Xing]

I don't think she will. Even though 2018 will be a midterm, she'll probably have a better chance of getting re-elected as an incumbent than as a challenger in 2016.

If any Republican in North Dakota can lose, it's Jack Dalrymple.

I didn't realize he was that unpopular. Still, though, it's probably a risky proposition for her, and if she lost, she'd pretty much have no hope of being re-elected in 2018.

[Türkisblau]

The safer route for her career could be a governor run in 2016 due to the strong possibility of Hillary being elected and 2018 being another horrible midterm year resulting in her being dead in the water.

Always finds its way back to the Great Female Savior

We're talking about the political future of a Senator in a red state who's likely to lose if there's a Democrat in the White House come 2018. Hillary has the highest chance of becoming President in 2016 by almost anyone's metric.

Please tell me how it is inappropriate to mention HRC in this thread.