{"id":2651,"date":"2010-01-05T16:13:01","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T23:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismancafe.com\/blogs\/?p=2651"},"modified":"2010-01-05T18:39:16","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T01:39:16","slug":"byron-dorgan-not-running-for-re-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/2651\/byron-dorgan-not-running-for-re-election","title":{"rendered":"Senator Byron Dorgan Not Running For Re-Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2652\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2652\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2652  \" title=\"Byron Dorgan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bismancafe.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/225px-Byron_Dorgan_official_photo_portrait_2.jpg\" alt=\"Byron Dorgan\" width=\"225\" height=\"285\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2652\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Byron Dorgan<\/p><\/div>\n<p>North Dakota&#8217;s Junior Senator, Byron Dorgan, announced today that he is not running for re-election when his current term expires in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Dorgan has been representing the state of North Dakota as a member of the United States Senate since 1992. Prior to that, he had been a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for nearly 12 years. He was also the North Dakota Tax Commissioner from 1969-1980.<\/p>\n<p>Dorgan has been the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs since 2007.<\/p>\n<p>As his expected upcoming re-election grew closer, it had been speculated in recent months that current North Dakota Governor, John Hoeven, who recently started his third term, might make a run against Senator Dorgan. Many had believed Governor Hoeven, a former Democrat-turned-Republican who won his third Governor\u00a0term in a landslide 74% victory, was the only likely contender who could possibly defeat Senator Dorgan; who himself has had mostly favorable approval ratings since taking office. A Rasmussen Poll in December 2009 had put Hoeven ahead of Dorgan, 58%-38%.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Dorgan&#8217;s departure certainly opens the field for a possible victory from either party in the upcoming 2010 election. If I were to guess right now, I&#8217;d predict that the 2010 Senatorial Election will be primarily between current House Member Earl Pomeroy and Governor John Hoeven, but that&#8217;s just a guess. As of now, neither has announced plans to make a run. Republican Duane Sand has confirmed that he is again trying for a seat on the Senate, despite failed attempts against Senator Conrad in 2000 and Earl Pomeroy in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>See Dorgan&#8217;s announcement on his official website here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dorgan.senate.gov\/newsroom\/record.cfm?id=321298\">http:\/\/dorgan.senate.gov\/newsroom\/record.cfm?id=321298<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Dakota&#8217;s Junior Senator, Byron Dorgan, announced today that he is not running for re-election when his current term expires in 2010. Dorgan has been representing the state of North Dakota as a member of the United States Senate since 1992. Prior to that, he had been a member of the U.S. House of Representatives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[267,268,271,270,273,269,272],"class_list":["post-2651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-byron-dorgan","tag-dorgan","tag-leaving","tag-resigning","tag-retiring","tag-senate","tag-vacating"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}