{"id":14576,"date":"2010-04-12T08:09:07","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T08:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/a-big-deficit-of-democrats-in-the-dakotas\/"},"modified":"2010-04-12T08:09:07","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T08:09:07","slug":"a-big-deficit-of-democrats-in-the-dakotas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/a-big-deficit-of-democrats-in-the-dakotas.php","title":{"rendered":"A big deficit of Democrats in the Dakotas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_Zm6JXvXXze4\/S8BvXw1N0iI\/AAAAAAAAK3U\/CiUj-WZBTV0\/s1600\/NorthDakotaCapitol.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/12bbc_NorthDakotaCapitol.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><strong>The further decline of the endangered Western Democrat<\/strong><\/p><p>From Eric Dondero:<\/p><p>On Monday, Libertarian Republican reported on the Democrat Party of South Dakota backing off a challenge to incumbent US Senator John Thune. The <a href=\"http:\/\/libertarianrepublican.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/john-thune-smooth-cattle-ride-to.html\">article<\/a>: \"Thune, smooth cattle ride to Reelection.\" The Democrats simply could not find a candidate to run against the popular Republican.<\/p><p>Now, further evidence of the Party's serious decline in the upper Central West.  <\/p><p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedickinsonpress.com\/event\/apArticle\/id\/D9EVST9O0\/\">Dickinson Press<\/a>, Bismark April 10, \"ND Dems short of candidates for Legislature\":<\/p><blockquote><p>North Dakota Democrats haven't put up challengers for Republican incumbents in Williston, Devils Lake and Bismarck, and may allow seven incumbent GOP state senators to run unopposed for re-election, candidate filings show.<\/p><p>Democratic slates in 24 legislative districts holding elections this fall had a number of holes Friday as the filing deadline passed for North Dakota's June 8 primary.<\/p><p>Democratic candidates are not running for either the House or Senate in District 1, which includes the city of Williston; District 15, which covers Devils Lake, Ramsey County and part of southern Towner County; or District 47 in north Bismarck, one of the state's strongest GOP areas.<\/p><p>In four other districts, Democrats are fielding only one House candidate to compete with two Republicans for each district's two House seats.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>In contrast, Republicans failed to come up with a challenger for only one single Democrat-held seat.  <\/p><p>Senate Majority Leader Bob Stenehjem, R-Bismarck noted wryle:<\/p><blockquote><p>\"It doesn't look like it will be a good year to run as a Democrat in North Dakota.\"<\/p><\/blockquote><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/12bbc_7828681836623105417-1269631659692493412?l=libertarianrepublican.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The further decline of the endangered Western DemocratFrom Eric Dondero:On Monday, Libertarian Republican reported on the Democrat Party of South Dakota backing off a challenge to incumbent US Senator John Thune. The article: \"Thune, smooth cattle ride to Reelection.\" The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/a-big-deficit-of-democrats-in-the-dakotas.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}