Dear Senator Heidi Heitkamp...

[Raster]

...Unfortunately, you are probably going to lose in November. Your Democratic seat is the most vulnerable. YOU CAN do the right thing on the way out the door: VOTE AGAINST KAVANAUGH! Stick it to tRump* and the Rethuglicans* one last time.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

1. Seems like the only option... might as well, as the alternative could be a helluva lot worse.

[Hortensis]

24. How predictably negative.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

28. Huh? You sayin' she SHOULD vote to seat a gang rapist on the Supreme Court

in the hope that will get her re-elected? If you disagree with the OP, feel free to say so. I happen to agree.

[Raster]

2. Kick!

[babylonsister]

3. I totally agree. She's very far behind.

I hate to lose a seat, but it seems inevitable. Do the right thing, Heidi!

[Raster]

5. Hey Sister...

...Agree, hate to lose ANY Dem seats in Congress, and especially the Senate. However, Senator Heitkamp will probably lose, and I sincerely hope she DOES NOT VOTE for Kavanaugh because she may think it could help her chances to hold that seat. It won't.

[qazplm135]

7. she's only voting for him

if he's going to get all the Republican's votes anyways...so it won't matter.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

29. Seems so obvious... but, apparently not to some.

[babylonsister]

31. She claims she's voting no;

she must have read this thread.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

32. hahaha, yes!!

[The Wizard]

4. She's done as a senator

and may as well make a moral decision instead of a politically calculated vote for Trump's immoral choice for the Court.

[lagomorph777]

15. If she has any future political ambitions, doing the right thing will help her.

She'd never be accepted as a Russiapublican, regardless. But if she votes for Kavanaugh, she'll be a pariah; neither party would ever accept her.

[liberalnarb]

6. EVERY SINGLE DEMOCRAT MUST VOTE NO ON KAVANAUGH!

[Raster]

8. Agreed! And if Jeff Flake has any further national political ambitions...

...he's going to need to appeal to a wider range of voters and going to need to clean the tRump* stink off his hands. Voting NO on Kavanaugh is a good start.

[liberalnarb]

14. He already said that had he been running for re election he would not have taken the stand he did.

I guess honest cowardice is better than dishonest.

[calimary]

17. Indeed.

Well, the question will really be - who sorta gives up and gets too complacent or discouraged to bother voting. The "meh, both the same/meh, what difference does it make/meh, what's the point" crowd. We unfortunately seem to have an overabundance of voters in that category, much more than the CONS do. It'll depend on whether most of THAT crowd gets amped up and ready to take a stand, or shrugs, gives up and goes home.

[Raster]

9. Kick!

[Proud Liberal Dem]

10. Why is she so far down in the polls? Any speculation?

[jmowreader]

12. Because she's a Democrat in South Dakota, mostly

[Jose Garcia]

18. She was a Democrat in South Dakota in 2012 also

[brooklynite]

21. Presidential election year; higher turnout.

[jmowreader]

22. SD is farther to the right now than it was in 2012

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

23. North Dakota. Which is .00121% less right wing than SD....... nt

[jmowreader]

26. Oh thanks.

In 2012 the American Redoubt wasn’t as big as it is now. The Dakotas aren’t officially in that region, but they’re right next door.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

27. I had to look up that term. Learn something new every day. The one thing

that remains constant is how crazy these right wing pricks are......

[Snake Plissken]

13. The Koch Brothers are dumping an enormous amount of money into that race

They have oil and gas interests in North Dakota, and it's an easy target for them, the entire population of North Dakota is under 800,000

[Snake Plissken]

11. If she votes against Kavanaugh she has a chance in November, if she doesn't ...

she loses in a landslide.

[Raster]

16. sorry, I don't think Heitkamp has chance no matter how she votes on Kavanaugh...

...in this morning's polls, she is down 11 points. Simply voting for Kavanaugh will not bring her to parity. Not going to happen. Heitkamp voting to confirm Kavanaugh is acquiescing to the inevitable and licking a few Rethugliboots on the way out the back door.

[RockaFowler]

19. She's voting NO

Link to tweet

NEWS: @HeidiHeitkamp is voting NO on Kavanaugh

[Raster]

20. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Senator Heitkamp!!!

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

30. Love it, THANK YOU Heidi!!

[k-dub]

25. I get Senator Heitkamp is likely to lose

But has ANYONE checked out her opponent. Holy hell that guy is a real piece of work. It's amazing she has won anything in that state.

Keitkamp has "looked out" for the oil and gas industry there. She's a moderate and I have to say we need moderates. I just don't want all the moderates being Republicans in blue states. It will be nice to pick up some Dem moderates in Red States...Tenn, Ind, Tex, etc...sad to lose this one.