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« on: November 14, 2006, 03:14:02 PM »
http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/Byron_Dorgan.htm
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« Reply #1 on: November 14, 2006, 03:45:44 PM »
A good guy, but not my bag politically.
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« Reply #2 on: November 14, 2006, 08:33:07 PM »
A GREAT Senator (one of my top 3), but not presidential material.
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« Reply #3 on: November 14, 2006, 08:33:34 PM »
I like him, but doesn't he have some ethics issues?
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« Reply #4 on: November 14, 2006, 08:34:28 PM »
Quote from: Al the Red President on November 14, 2006, 08:33:34 PM
I like him, but doesn't he have some ethics issues?

No.
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« Reply #5 on: November 14, 2006, 08:36:11 PM »
He needs to get himself a better skullrug.  That's all I'm saying.
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« Reply #6 on: November 14, 2006, 08:37:07 PM »
Quote from: Joe Republic on November 14, 2006, 08:36:11 PM
He needs to get himself a better skullrug.  That's all I'm saying.

I'll agree with you there!!
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« Reply #7 on: November 14, 2006, 08:52:02 PM »
Not my favorite on the issues, but not terrible. Both the ND Senators voted for cloture on Alito. Strangely, Dorgan voted FOR the Iraq war, and AGAINST Alito, while Conrad voted AGAINST the Iraq war, and FOR ALITO. Dorgan has a better voting record than Conrad.
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« Reply #8 on: November 14, 2006, 08:53:42 PM »
Dorgan is awesome on economic/trade issues and a true leader on policy.
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« Reply #9 on: November 14, 2006, 08:54:21 PM »
He's a good, even-keeled bureaucratic sort of Senator...but that doesn't really add up to a great candidate.
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« Reply #10 on: November 14, 2006, 09:17:39 PM »
He's a good senator. I think Bayh would be a better candidate and he has more votes from Indiana.
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« Reply #11 on: November 15, 2006, 01:13:41 AM »
Haha, there's currently something funny on his wikipedia bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Dorgan

I'd edit it out, but it's funny, and it makes whoever put that in look bad.
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« Reply #12 on: November 15, 2006, 07:23:44 PM »
I could see him as a VP to Lou Dobbs or Brian Schweiter. Schweiitzer and Dorgan both have a nice tone to their voices. Something about the Northern accents. Would Dorgan be a potential democratic VP?
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« Reply #13 on: November 15, 2006, 07:25:40 PM »
I don't think he'd want to be VP. Dorgan strikes me as more of a legislator than an executive.
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« Reply #14 on: November 15, 2006, 08:21:19 PM »
"when he was elected to the United States House of Representatives, of which he was a member from 1981 until 1992 (being re-elected every two years)."

No...really?
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« Reply #15 on: November 15, 2006, 09:37:17 PM »
Quote from: jfern on November 14, 2006, 08:52:02 PM
Not my favorite on the issues, but not terrible. Both the ND Senators voted for cloture on Alito. Strangely, Dorgan voted FOR the Iraq war, and AGAINST Alito, while Conrad voted AGAINST the Iraq war, and FOR ALITO. Dorgan has a better voting record than Conrad.
One of them flips a coin and the other does the opposite.
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« Reply #16 on: November 15, 2006, 09:43:40 PM »
Quote from: TD on November 15, 2006, 09:37:17 PM
Quote from: jfern on November 14, 2006, 08:52:02 PM
Not my favorite on the issues, but not terrible. Both the ND Senators voted for cloture on Alito. Strangely, Dorgan voted FOR the Iraq war, and AGAINST Alito, while Conrad voted AGAINST the Iraq war, and FOR ALITO. Dorgan has a better voting record than Conrad.
One of them flips a coin and the other does the opposite.

Ooo, I strongly agree with Conrad on both issues.
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« Reply #17 on: November 16, 2006, 02:17:13 PM »

Is he to conservatve to get teh Dem nomination?
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« Reply #18 on: November 16, 2006, 02:44:22 PM »
Probably hurting him more is that no one knows who he is. He is to the left of Bayh, and only slightly to the right of Biden.
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« Reply #19 on: November 17, 2006, 02:24:50 PM »
Quote from: jfern on November 16, 2006, 02:44:22 PM
Probably hurting him more is that no one knows who he is. He is to the left of Bayh, and only slightly to the right of Biden.

He is fairly conservative on immigration
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« Reply #20 on: November 17, 2006, 03:20:00 PM »
no silly populists for president please.
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« Reply #21 on: November 17, 2006, 03:45:28 PM »
Quote from: WalterMitty on November 17, 2006, 03:20:00 PM
no silly populists for president please.

Whats wrong with populism? opposed to corporatism or elitism, and serving special interest.
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« Reply #22 on: November 17, 2006, 03:46:40 PM »
Quote from: Lou Dobbs08 on November 17, 2006, 03:45:28 PM
Quote from: WalterMitty on November 17, 2006, 03:20:00 PM
no silly populists for president please.

Whats wrong with populism? opposed to corporatism or elitism, and serving special interest.

Yeah, we can't have any liberal elites, like anti-Patriot Act Senator Tester who made $20k a year farming in Montana.
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« Reply #23 on: November 17, 2006, 04:21:30 PM »
Looking at that 'on the issues' site, it was just about impossible to tell that guy is a Democrat.  Kent Conrad is just as bad but doesn't look like as much of a total asshole.
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« Reply #24 on: November 25, 2006, 02:36:26 PM »
do you think he may run in 2012? If he ran as an independent he could apeal equally to both sides. even though he is a dem, is views are in line with Ross Perot who was accused of taking votes away from the GOP.
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