ND-SEN: But you are, Blanche, you are

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Heitkamp is someone who could really get screwed over the SCOTUS nomination, if she votes no she gives up any pretense of being a moderate and likely loses several centrist/conservative votes. If she votes yeas she risks alienating the far left that is funding her campaign

If she votes no for cause, then she simply says "nominate someone else".Kavanaugh apparently has some suspect finances.

[pbrower2a]

AARP polled North Dakotans over 50:

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Source: https://states.aarp.org/nd-2018-election-poll/

Trump will probably win North Dakota if he stands for re-election, but it will be by a narrower margin than the norm for Republicans. I don't know whether younger North Dakotans will be more D enough to re-elect Heitkamp this year or defeat Trump in 2020 based on this poll... but this will not be an easy R pickup for the Senate.

Republicans will win the single House seat of North Dakota with a current 49-30 edge among voters over 50.

[pbrower2a]

Cramer with some remarkable tone deafness on Kavanaugh

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/09/21/politics/kfile-cramer/index.html?__twitter_impression=true

Drunkenness does not excuse a sexual assault. Neither does being seventeen at the time. Having had one beer does not make one drunk, as Cramer says of Ford.

Speaking of allegations of sexual assault keeping good people from getting high public office... it is entirely possible that had knowledge of this assault been known, Kavanaugh might not have made it to law school.

Good people show character from childhood. They do not have horrible lapses.