{"id":144476,"date":"2010-01-06T07:40:28","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T12:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2010\/01\/06\/hoeven-will-run-for-senate\/"},"modified":"2010-01-06T07:40:28","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T12:40:28","slug":"hoeven-will-run-for-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/144476","title":{"rendered":"Hoeven Will Run for Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/PoliticalWire\/~3\/DP7koEQmuxY\/hoeven_will_run_for_senate.html\" >Hoeven Will Run for Senate             <\/a><br \/>With news that Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) is not running for re-election, <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/scorecard\/0110\/Hoeven_planning_to_run_for_the_Senate.html\">Politco<\/a> reports that North Dakota Gov. John Hoeven (R) &#8220;is letting his political allies know that he&#8217;s preparing to run for the seat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;Hoeven&#8217;s decision gives Republicans an excellent shot at winning back the Senate seat in the solidly Republican state.&#8221;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/PoliticalWire\/~4\/DP7koEQmuxY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>             <\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/PoliticalWire\/~3\/U1jT07-WqI0\/dodd_will_not_seek_re-election.html\" >Dodd Will Not Seek Re-Election             <\/a><br \/>Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-CT), &#8220;a 30-year incumbent who has been struggling in public opinion polls for more than a year, plans to announce today he will not seek reelection,&#8221; the <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.courant.com\/news\/politics\/hc-senator-chris-dodd-christopher-connecticut-106,0,2741157.story\">Hartford Courant<\/a> reports. <\/p>\n<p>But unlike Sen. Byron Dorgan&#8217;s (D-ND) <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/politicalwire.com\/archives\/2010\/01\/05\/dorgan_to_retire.html\">decision<\/a> yesterday to retire &#8212; which leaves his party defending an open seat in a Republican-leaning state &#8212; Dodd&#8217;s retirement is actually seen as giving Democrats a better shot at holding the seat in heavily Democratic Connecticut. <\/p>\n<p>In fact, the <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.courant.com\/news\/local\/statewire\/hc-ap-ct-doddretirement-bljan06,0,3801527.story\">AP<\/a> reports Attorney General Richard Blumenthal (D) is wasting no time and will announce his candidacy for Dodd&#8217;s seat.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/PoliticalWire\/~4\/U1jT07-WqI0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>             <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hoeven Will Run for Senate With news that Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) is not running for re-election, Politco reports that North Dakota Gov. John Hoeven (R) &#8220;is letting his political allies know that he&#8217;s preparing to run for the seat.&#8221; &#8220;Hoeven&#8217;s decision gives Republicans an excellent shot at winning back the Senate seat in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":807,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/807"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}