{"id":149223,"date":"2010-01-07T07:35:25","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T12:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2010\/01\/07\/dorgan-to-leave-senate-giving-republicans-chance-to-win-north-dakota-seat\/"},"modified":"2010-01-07T07:35:25","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T12:35:25","slug":"dorgan-to-leave-senate-giving-republicans-chance-to-win-north-dakota-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/149223","title":{"rendered":"Dorgan to leave Senate, giving Republicans chance to win North Dakota seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.washingtonpost.com\/click.phdo?i=386f6c99d55fac7167c324a4b87c637e\" > Dorgan to leave Senate, giving Republicans chance to win North Dakota seat  \t\t\t<\/a><br \/> Sen. Byron L. Dorgan (D-N.D.) will not run for reelection this year, he said Tuesday, providing Republicans with a major opportunity to pick up a Senate seat in the November midterm elections. <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/> <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/> <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=386f6c99d55fac7167c324a4b87c637e&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=386f6c99d55fac7167c324a4b87c637e&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a> <!-- foo --> \t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.washingtonpost.com\/click.phdo?i=857e85314c7abb3de8816620401ad3ed\" > Democrats&#8217; announcements change 2010 landscape  \t\t\t<\/a><br \/> While most Americans spent the holidays relaxing with their families and recharging for 2010, a trio of veteran Democrats apparently had visions of retirement dancing in their heads. <br clear=\"all\"> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/jump\/wpni.rss\/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2722520408\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/ad\/wpni.rss\/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=2722520408\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"5\"><\/a> <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/> <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/> <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=857e85314c7abb3de8816620401ad3ed&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=857e85314c7abb3de8816620401ad3ed&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a> <!-- foo --> \t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.washingtonpost.com\/click.phdo?i=5d33318944d867fbca0fc6bccf5561fd\" > Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd&#8217;s retirement improves Democrats&#8217; chances for seat  \t\t\t<\/a><br \/> Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) announced his retirement from Congress on Wednesday, bringing an end to an illustrious political career and, in so doing, bolstering his party&#8217;s chances of holding his seat. <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/> <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/> <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=5d33318944d867fbca0fc6bccf5561fd&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=5d33318944d867fbca0fc6bccf5561fd&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a> <!-- foo --> \t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.washingtonpost.com\/click.phdo?i=d5f01c4c4df8e91ad34a0b84bd7c787f\" > Pharmacy benefit managers and the rising drug costs for federal workers  \t\t\t<\/a><br \/> When Uncle Sam arranges prescription drug coverage for millions of federal employees and their dependents, you&#8217;d expect him to have enough muscle to keep those prices low. <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/> <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/> <a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=d5f01c4c4df8e91ad34a0b84bd7c787f&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=d5f01c4c4df8e91ad34a0b84bd7c787f&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a> <!-- foo --> \t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dorgan to leave Senate, giving Republicans chance to win North Dakota seat Sen. Byron L. Dorgan (D-N.D.) will not run for reelection this year, he said Tuesday, providing Republicans with a major opportunity to pick up a Senate seat in the November midterm elections. Democrats&#8217; announcements change 2010 landscape While most Americans spent the holidays [&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-149223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149223","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=149223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}