Published January 07, 2010, 12:00 AM


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Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., talks on the phone in his office on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday. Dorgan stunned fellow Democrats when he decided not to seek re-election this fall and swung open a race that Republicans are convinced will help the GOP dent the Democrats' fragile majority in the Senate.

Read the article: Dorgan has been considering not running for months