According to Drudge, Democrats have dropped the “deem and pass” procedure that would have allowed them to pass the health care bill through the House without actually voting on it. Now they’re going with two separate votes.
One to pass the Senate health care bill through the House, and another on [...]
Kevin Cramer, who no more than a half an hour ago conceded the US House nomination to Rep. Rick Berg, told me in the hallway here in the convention center that while he hasn’t formally filed paperwork to run for the party nomination for his PSC seat he would accept [...]
Obviously, with Hoeven running for the Senate and likely to cream Democrat challenger Tracy Potter, that’s going to leave the Governor’s office open. Lt. Governor Jack Dalrymple, who just finished speaking here at the convention, would step up to finish Hoeven’s term. But what happens once that term is up [...]
Fresh off her surprise nomination of Kevin Cramer on the stage at the NDGOP convention, former ND First Lady Nancy Schafer spoke with me about her decision to make the endorsement.
Schafer said that she and her husband, former Governor Ed Schafer who usually abstains from endorsing candidates before the nomination, [...]
In a surprise to the convention, former North Dakota first lady Nancy Schafer (wife of former Governor and US Ag Secretary Ed Schafer) endorsed House candidate Kevin Cramer from the stage.
The Governor has a long-standing practice of not endorsing candidates before they have the party’s nomination. Getting Nancy Schafer’s endorsement [...]
The NDGOP House race has largely been focused on Commissioner Kevin Cramer and Rep. Rick Berg, but right now Kenmare businessman (and musician) JD Donaghe is on the stage and wowing the convention.
From the introduction by his daughters to his video in which he, personally, performed the music it’s clear [...]
Rep. Rick Berg is getting a lot of mileage out of a Rasmussen poll done weeks ago which showed Berg beating Rep. Earl Pomeroy by 6 points while Kevin Cramer was statistically tied with with the incumbent. All three of Berg’s endorses at the convention - former state insurance commissioner [...]
23% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-four percent (44%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -21. That matches the lowest Approval Index rating yet recorded for this President (see trends). ...
Overall, [...]
Some people involved in the party nomination process don’t like there being so many candidates in the race. But I enjoy the lesser-known candidates like JD Donaghe and DuWayne Hendrickson, who interviewed as he came off the stage.
Hendrickson said that this was only his third time speaking publicly and that [...]
No insult intended to the governor, but after the hotly contested House race culminated in Rep. Rick Berg getting the nomination, Governor Hoeven’s speech to the convention (and subsequent floor demonstration featuring his typically awful campaign music) almost seemed like an afterthought.
Everyone here expects Hoeven to run away with the [...]
