Democrat Heidi Heitkamp puts North Dakota Senate seat in play
10/7/12 5:56 PM EDT
BISMARCK, N.D. — The surprisingly competitive Senate race here has diverged into two parallel campaigns: one for control of the upper chamber of Congress, the other for mayor of North Dakota.
Republican Rep. Rick Berg is trying to make it a referendum on Harry Reid, telling voters they may well decide whether one of the GOP’s favorite piñatas sticks around as majority leader.
Democrat Heidi Heitkamp, meanwhile, is putting the well-worn maxim that all politics is local to the ultimate test. The down-home, back-slapping former prosecutor rarely misses a chance to hold forth on parochial concerns like flood control or affordable housing and is quick to cite her early work in the state Capitol to help energy interests.
Though North Dakota has a history of electing Democrats — both its senators had “D’s” next to their names until 2010 — the race in this increasingly red state was long thought to be Berg’s to lose. But Heitkamp, proving to be perhaps the best pure Senate campaigner of this election cycle, has made it a barnburner.
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Every one counts! Please! Let Heidi win this!
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