2012 U.S. Senate Election
See also: United States Senate election in North Dakota, 2012On May 16, 2011, Berg announced that he would run for the United States Senate seat being vacated by Democratic incumbent Kent Conrad.
Election night results indicated that Berg had lost to former state Attorney General Heidi Heitkamp by 2,994 votes. As the difference was less than 1% of the ballots cast, Berg declined to immediately concede. The next day, however, Berg acknowledged his Democratic opponent's victory.
Read more about this topic: Rick Berg
Famous quotes containing the words senate and/or election:
“As the House is designed to provide a reflection of the mood of the moment, the Senate is meant to reflect the continuity of the past—to preserve the delicate balance of justice between the majority’s whims and the minority’s rights.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)
“He hung out of the window a long while looking up and down the street. The world’s second metropolis. In the brick houses and the dingy lamplight and the voices of a group of boys kidding and quarreling on the steps of a house opposite, in the regular firm tread of a policeman, he felt a marching like soldiers, like a sidewheeler going up the Hudson under the Palisades, like an election parade, through long streets towards something tall white full of colonnades and stately. Metropolis.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)