{"id":4303,"date":"2010-11-02T20:51:02","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T01:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismancafe.com\/blogs\/?p=4303"},"modified":"2010-11-14T15:18:14","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T21:18:14","slug":"hoeven-berg-heading-to-washington-republicans-lead-north-dakota-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/4303\/hoeven-berg-heading-to-washington-republicans-lead-north-dakota-election","title":{"rendered":"Hoeven, Berg Heading To Washington: Republicans Lead North Dakota Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4293\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4293\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4293\" title=\"Election Day 2010\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bismancafe.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Election-Day-2010-200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4293\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Election Day 2010<\/p><\/div>\n<p>North Dakota has voted in line with, what has proven to be, the national trend of favoring Republicans this midterm election, replacing two long-held Democratic positions with Republican representatives.<\/p>\n<p>For the Senate, Governor John Hoeven, who recently won his third\u00a0gubernatorial\u00a0term with 74.4%, easily defeated challenger Tracy Potter by a large margin. The position is being <a title=\"Senator Byron Dorgan Not Running For Re-Election\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bismancafe.com\/blogs\/?p=2651\">vacated<\/a> by long-time representative\u00a0Byron Dorgan. Hoeven will be the first Republican to represent North Dakota in the Senate in 24 years.<\/p>\n<p>For the House, Rick Berg has narrowly defeated long-standing\u00a0incumbent\u00a0Earl Pomeroy. Berg will be the first Republican to represent North Dakota in the House in 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>Incumbent\u00a0Republicans, including Al Jaeger, Wayne Stenehjem, Kevin Cramer, and Cory Fong, have also faired extremely well in this election.<\/p>\n<p>Estimated results, as of 10:45pm, with 84.36% of precincts reporting:<\/p>\n<h4>Senate:<\/h4>\n<p>Hoeven (R): 75%<br \/>\nPotter (D): 22%<\/p>\n<h4>House:<\/h4>\n<p>Berg (R): 54%<br \/>\nPomeroy (D): 45%<\/p>\n<h4>Secretary of State:<\/h4>\n<p>Jaeger (R): 62%<br \/>\nMock (D): 38%<\/p>\n<h4>Attorney General:<\/h4>\n<p>Stenehjem (R): 74%<br \/>\nBoechler (D): 26%<\/p>\n<h4>Ag Commissioner:<\/h4>\n<p>Goehring (R): 67%<br \/>\nBoucher (D): 32%<\/p>\n<h4>Public Service Commissioner:<\/h4>\n<p>Cramer (R): 61%<br \/>\nCrabtree (D): 35%<\/p>\n<h4>Tax Commissioner:<\/h4>\n<p>Fong (R): 67%<br \/>\nKaldor (D): 30%<\/p>\n<p>For complete election results, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nd.gov\/sos\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.nd.gov\/sos<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Dakota has voted in line with, what has proven to be, the national trend of favoring Republicans this midterm election, replacing two long-held Democratic positions with Republican representatives. For the Senate, Governor John Hoeven, who recently won his third\u00a0gubernatorial\u00a0term with 74.4%, easily defeated challenger Tracy Potter by a large margin. The position is being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[274],"tags":[267,369,279,371,372,370,150,374,269,373],"class_list":["post-4303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-byron-dorgan","tag-earl-pomeroy","tag-election","tag-governor","tag-house","tag-john-hoeven","tag-north-dakota","tag-results","tag-senate","tag-tracy-potter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4303","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=4303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}