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President Barack Obama: "Tonight in this election you, the American people, reminded us that while our road has been hard, while our journey has been long, we have picked ourselves up, we have fought our way back, and we know in our hearts that for the United States of America, the best is yet to come."
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NORTH DAKOTA'S NEXT U.S. SENATOR DEMOCRAT HEIDI HEITKAMP DEFEATS REPUBLICAN RICK BERG IN A CLOSE RACE WITH THE HELP OF THE NATIVE AMERICAN VOTE
By Deborah LaVallie
Mandan (ND) attorney and former ND Attorney General and state tax commissioner, Heidi Heitkamp narrowly won her U.S. Senate race against Republican U.S. Representative Rick Berg in yesterday's election. Senator Heitkamp will replace Senator Kent Conrad who is retiring this year. By fewer than 3,000 votes Heitkamp won with the help of a large turnout of Native American votes from the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa and Fort Berthold's Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara Nation, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Spirit Lake Nation and the Sisseton Wahpeton Sioux Tribes in North Dakota, where she campaigned heavily on the state's five Indian reservations. Berg won his U.S. House seat two years ago in a Republican sweep of the heavily conservative state that hasn't voted for a Democratic President since the 70's when the moon landing took place. Heitkamp won with a 50.25% of the state vote to Berg's 49.31%, a difference of 2,994 votes. Heitkamp was the only Democrat to win a major state office in the Republican dominated state.
Voters turned out in large numbers, on the Turtle Mountain reservation after a statewide, 'get out the Native vote' campaign, swinging Rolette County to Heitkamp. In district 3, the Belcourt district, a total of 1,947 votes were cast, with 92.60% going to the newly elected Senator. In the off reservation districts, heavily populated by Native Americans, 631 votes were cast in Rolla's district 1, with 59.11% for Heitkamp, in St. John's district 2, a total of 420 votes were cast, with 69.05% going to Heitkamp, in district 4, the Dunseith district, 989 total votes were cast, with 83.92% going to Heitkamp and in Rolette's district 5, with 582 votes cast, 62.54% went to Heitkamp. There was a total of 4,569 votes cast in Rolette County with 80.11% going to Heitkamp.
The Native American vote was crucial in this election for Senate Democrats to retain their control in the U.S. Senate and played a large part in not only electing Heitkamp, whose win will make the 53 Senate majority a huge contender in getting major issues passed, but also helped in other states like Montana, whose Native vote helped to reelect incumbent Senator Jon Tester in what was thought to have been a close race in that state, too. In a statement on Facebook, Heitkamp pledged to work for every North Dakotan expressing her thanks for all the hard work that went into her campaign.
CONGRATS TO FORT BELKNAP ASSINIBOINE AND GROS VENTRE TRIBES FOR GETTING OUT THE VOTE IN MONTANA!
"Congratulations to the Fort Belknap Reservation. You got the highest voter turnout for 2012. Seventy Two (72 %) percent of voters went to the polls on the Fort Belknap Reservation for a 42 percent increase over 2010 and a 6 percent increase over 2008, the high water mark." — at Western Native Voice.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4228260419782&set=o.211129648950315&type=1&theater"Peta said it’s important for tribes to keep the infrastructure operational, keeping tribal vote coordinators working toward future elections.
In fact: There is even more opportunity for American Indians to wield influence in off-year election cycles – when the presidential race is not on the ballot – because the overall turnout is so much lower.
Peta said another important aspect of this election was youth participation. Not only did young people register and vote, but young people too young to vote participated on tribal committees, knocked on doors, and talked to other students."
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/08/1158417/-American-Indian-voters-and-Indian-organizers-gave-N-D-Senate-edge-to-Democrat-Heidi-Heitkamp?detail=hide
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http://results.sos.nd.gov/resultsPREC.aspx?text=Race&type=SW&rid=5002&cty=40&osn=110&map=CTY
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