BY FROMA HARROP Republicans were supposed to have an easy time of it in North Dakota’s U.S. Senate race. The multi-term Democrat, Kent Conrad, wasn’t running for re-election, and this region is supposed to be Republican in its conservative soul. Thus, according to the script, Republican Rep. Rick Berg should have had this Senate seat in the bag – as his Democratic foe, Heidi Heitkamp, tried to crawl uphill with a heavy D on her […]

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