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When the Obama camp announced that it was going to make a play for North Dakota, a lot of people scoffed. I, for one, was skeptical. But then we all started taking a look at the ROI — the fact that the Obama camp could throw relative pennies at the state and win enough votes to make it competitive — and started thinking that maybe it was a smart choice to at the very least annoy McCain there. Well, now the polls are suggesting that maybe the Obama team was on to something. A new Research 2000 poll released today...

Barack Obama’s campaign distanced itself Saturday from a liberal talk show host who called John McCain a “warmonger” while introducing the Illinois senator at a North Dakota campaign stop the night before, after the McCain campaign called on Obama to denounce the comment. Local talk show host Ed Schultz used the term to describe the Arizona senator while warming up the crowd in Grand Forks, N.D., before Obama’s arrival at the state’s Democratic convention. .... On Friday, however, Obama thanked Schultz and called him the “voice of progressive radio.”

Mitt Romney has won the GOP caucuses in North Dakota, according to Fox News.

Fox News predicts Barack Obama wins the North Dakota Democratic caucuses.

Republican Mitt Romney's presidential campaign says it has not been making illegal "robo-calls" to North Dakotans and says some pranksters are trying to pass themselves off as Romney supporters. Two attorneys in Romney's campaign have sent a letter to Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem, asking him to investigate the calls. Stenehjem said Sunday his office would check out the complaint. The letter, quoting what it said were reports from Romney supporters, linked some of the calls to a volunteer call center in Michigan that it said had done work for John McCain, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination.

from Tagg Romney: "I recently returned from a trip to North Dakota and Minnesota, my 21st and 22nd states visited on the campaign trail so far. We had a straw poll in Bismarck, ND and I was a speaker at the GOP round-up. It was a ton of fun to meet so many enthusiastic Republicans. My message could be summed up, as reported in the AP, as, 'Personally, I think the best way to beat Hillary Clinton is not to water down our values, or to try to act more like Hillary Clinton, or try to blur the distinction between...