Dale Brown Reconsidering Run for Senate

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Former basketball coach Dale Brown says he is reconsidering whether to run for office in North Dakota next year.

The Minot native and former longtime LSU men's basketball coach earlier this year decided against running for Congress against Democrat Byron Dorgan in 2004.

Brown said Monday that because former Gov. Ed Schafer, a Republican, is not interested in making a U.S Senate run, Republicans from across the country are urging him to run against Dorgan.

Brown said he expects to make a decision within a few weeks. "I owe them not to prolong this," he said of fellow Republicans.

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Brown may be the best candidate they can get after Schafer (except maybe for Gov. Hoeven, but he's definately out of it), but his chances are slim nonetheless. A political novice doesn't have much of a shot at knocking off a very popular (Despite ND's conservatism the people tend to vote for the person not the party and the two Dem senators are very popular) porkbarreling incumbent. Brown could possibly be a threat to Pomeroy, but that idiot Clayburgh will porbably run and get the nomination again, meaning Pomeroy will win in a squeaker and Dorgan in a landslide.