With less than three weeks until the midterm election, North Dakota’s Secretary of State Al Jaeger created confusion with ballots and perpetuates uncertainty in the voting process. October 17th again displayed the dysfunction under Jaeger’s leadership. The day began with a press conference and ended with a “probably.” Mail-in ballots are already being cast in […]
Welcome to episode 2 of ND xPlains. In this part, we begin to look at who is in the “good old boys network” candidate Doug Burgum hinted at and campaigned against in the 2016 election. People involved in North Dakota politics know that perhaps the most influential person in state politics is Pat Finken […]
Fox News has published what appears to be a thinly sourced, forced partisan narrative against Heidi Heitkamp and her tenure as North Dakota’s Attorney General. Weeks ago, a reader contacted me to talk about a poll they just completed. They described it as a poll to test negative messages on Heitkamp. The poll reportedly hit […]
Representative Craig Headland (R – Montpelier) was cited for driving under the influence this weekend in Stutsman County. According to public records, the citation took place on October 8th. Headland’s initial court appearance is scheduled for November 7th, the day after the midterm election. Headland is a long-serving Republican lawmaker from District 29. He is […]
ND xPlains begins to look at who is in the “good old boys network” candidate Doug Burgum hinted at in the 2016 election. We will look at how they use North Dakota’s government for their own means and explain why people should care. Thanks for watching.
Information obtained by ND xPlains shows outside special interest groups spent over $1 million on television and radio to try and influence Senator Heidi Heitkamp’s vote on Brett Kavanaugh. This does not include online and digital spending. The largest outside spender was the conservative Judicial Crisis Network (JCN) who spent approximately $870,152 in North Dakota. Demand […]
Chances are some people were angered by that headline. Meanwhile, others may be empowered. The split on Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh has been sharp. I’ve heard it at coffee shops, diners, and most pointedly on my radio talk show where yesterday people shared their thoughts. You can listen to part of that discussion here. […]
We are four days beyond the expiration to the Farm Bill. Rather than working to resolve the dispute between the House and Senate and provide certainty to family farmers facing low commodity prices, members of the House are out campaigning for the midterm. To politicians, the election is more important than their farm constituents. It […]
North Dakota is a small state. Small enough, in fact, that when a public opinion poll is in the field you may know someone who was on the receiving end of the survey. This holds true even if the sample size is 650 likely voters. That is what happened with the Strategic Research Associates L.L.C. […]
ND xPlains is launching a video component for content. The first series will look into the political power network of North Dakota, or as candidate Doug Burgum called it, the “good old boys network.”