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your mama says:

January 5, 2010 at 8:37 pm

hope this is a continuing trend.
Senator Dorgan to Free Himself From Consequences This Year :: YankMcCain.com says:

January 5, 2010 at 9:08 pm

[…] Byron Dorgan has announced he’ll be retiring from the Senate after this term. That’s good and bad […]
Chris in NC says:

January 5, 2010 at 9:09 pm

This isn’t a good thing. The beatable dude is gone. Like I said in other comments the dems are not going to lose a seat. People who are in trouble like Dorgan will be forced from the ballot by the party. They’ll be replaced with a “fresh face” and the blithering idiots we call average voters of the states in question will be satisfied and send the democrat back. This is just New Jersey over again except the candidate is stepping down before the ballots are printed.

Don’t get too excited by this. They’ll poll and poll and find someone who can and will be the republican. The media will lie and help out and the dems will win their races. Same stuff, different day.
Great White Rat says:

January 5, 2010 at 9:41 pm

That’s possible, Chris, but I think ST’s calling this one correctly. Yes, the Dems will try to find someone with no baggage, but that won’t be easy, not with Hoeven’s popularity (if he decides to run). They’ll be looking for a sacrificial lamb.

Not that the GOP isn’t capable of finding a way to lose regardless….

There’s another aspect of this to consider. Before announcing his retirement, Dorgan would have been susceptible to public pressure to vote against bills like Cap & Trade. Now, he’s got nothing to lose – personally – by telling the voters to go to hell. He might get rewarded with a cushy no-work post-retirement job with the Obama administration. Of course, that would doom whoever the Dems nominate to replace him, but if they think the seat is lost anyway they have nothing to lose.

That’s the down side of all these lame-duck Dems in Congress. They’re more likely than ever to toe the party line.
poptoy says:

January 6, 2010 at 4:02 am

:dDorgan knows he is toast. This will be a permanent GOP seat. Remember Thune putting Daschel in his place. Same thing just a little further north. This is a + that will last. The sides are beginning to line up. Landrieu is the only exception to the rule for now. But her turn is coming. Nelson in Nebraska is toast also. Baucus is an exception that may last. I just don’t know what the good people of Montana are thinking?
Great White Rat says:

January 6, 2010 at 8:20 am

I see this morning that Chris Dodd is also calling it quits. In this case, Chris in NC would be exactly right….CT is a top to bottom deep blue state, so any non-tainted Dem should win there.
chrisfromneenah says:

January 6, 2010 at 2:29 pm

The sad thing is Hoeven going to do any better. We need to as Americans come together and demand NO MORE FREE TRADE. That was a failed policy mostly because the rich took the money from the cheap labor overseas and ran with it. Now we are stuck with the debt and no jobs. Well lets all Democrat and Republican come together to take back our land and our jobs. All demand in the primaries NO FREE TRADE. For more discussion go to heywhateversocial.info. There I will be posting more views on what is going on in the crisis.

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