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Vote Now in Madville Times Christmas GOP Senate Poll!

I polled the GOP Senate race in July; with Jason Ravnsborg offering his Christmas surprise to shake up the race, it's time to stick the thermometer in the online electorate again. If the primary were today, who'd get your vote in the GOP Senate primary? Presented in random order to voters are South Dakota's fearsome five Republican Senate candidates:

  • Mike Rounds
  • Stace Nelson
  • Larry Rhoden
  • Annette Bosworth
  • Jason Ravnsborg

(Funny: my poll widget randomizes the names each time the page reloads; the order above, which I grabbed from my latest refresh, reflects the order in which I think the candidates would finish if the election were held today.)

This poll is open to all South Dakota voters: Republicans, vote the way you plan to vote! Dems and Indies, vote the way you would if you were to switch parties and join the GOP primary. All voters, feel free to leave your comments here to tell us why you would vote for the candidate you mark here.

Poll remains open until early Tuesday morning, after which we'll talk about who gets the Christmas blog love and who gets the lumps of coal. Vote now, and tell your friends!

p.s.: Stay tuned: once Pressler formally announces (Larry! Larry!), we'll try out some polls to test some of the possible three-ways we could get from this crowded field.

21 Comments

  1. Amy 2013.12.21

    Nope. Sorry, can't even pretend.

  2. caheidelberger Post author | 2013.12.21

    That's o.k., Amy. For some, the above poll is like asking, "Which apocalypse would you prefer: asteroid, supervolcano, plague, new ice age, or alien invasion?"

  3. Jerry 2013.12.21

    Like picking a bullet for Russian roulette. Geesh CAH, I agree with Amy and will sit this one out.

  4. TG 2013.12.21

    Rhoden, of course. :-)

  5. TG 2013.12.21

    Ha! I missed the actual poll at the top. I put my vote in there now.

  6. interested party 2013.12.21

    What prevents PP and other unscrupulous poll takers from skewing the results, CAH?

  7. Loren 2013.12.21

    Like so many elections, if "none of the above" were running, it would be a cake walk - sadly!

  8. Jerry 2013.12.21

    I wonder which of these distinguished gentlewoman and gentlemen will have the Duck Dynasty yuppy come and campaign for them? I am thinking the Egg Roll (Rounds) as he has the moolah to bring in that talent and they are much the same caliber of rich elitists that do so much damage to us all. Yep, I have held my nose and voted for the Chinese favorite, Mr. EB-5, The Egg Roll himself.

  9. Roger Cornelius 2013.12.21

    Jerry,

    Where'd Rounds get his moolah?

  10. Amy 2013.12.21

    LOL @ "the Egg Roll" - ha!

  11. caheidelberger Post author | 2013.12.21

    Larry, nothing stops the skew of which you speak but principle, honesty, and the efforts of lots of other readers to present a broad sample of the electorate.

  12. caheidelberger Post author | 2013.12.21

    Jerry votes for the Machurian Candidate. There's a campaign poster in there somewhere....

  13. Jerry 2013.12.21

    The Manchurian Candidate indeed CAH. I can see it now, some ethnic food in the picture to show what kind of buffet this Egg Roll loves to partake in. Toss in a little Kim Chee, I'm talking the ripe stuff, for our Korean EB-5 investors.... rich fake immigrants, are you starting to visualize this, oh, as this Egg Roll is such an elitist, a little Russian Caviar, the good stuff to complete the table. Certainly not South Dakota beef, that is not Egg Rolls style. This would most definitely be a gluttonous all you can eat buffet that would be free, courtesy of the South Dakota tax payer.

    Then I would ask my tea party brothers to do the voice overs as they sound so foolish in doing so. But hey, ya gotta be equal opportunity in some regards. What do you think CAH?

  14. Jerry 2013.12.21

    You always wonder where guys like the Egg Roll and the
    Thune Bird suddenly become flush with moolah to run for office. We know that NOem got her's courtesy of the United States Government prior to her getting elected to congress. You can bet that she has raked in some serious stuff now from that gig and so has her family, it would seem.

    With the Egg Roll, he managed his own campaign as was noted, so he controlled the whole shebang as a candidate for governor, interesting. He also owned an insurance company and still does, so he did very well and is still doing very well in that regard. He also owned it during his tenure as governor of South Dakota, but stepped back during that time, like I am sure he did. Anyway, he is a very wealthy elitist currently and has a lot of backing from other elitists just like him that want to continue sucking the marrow from your bones.

  15. Larry D. Baker 2013.12.21

    Of the candidates I have listened to and met, I believe that Stace Nelson is the one I would vote for. As a fellow veteran, he impresses me with the straight talk and common sense; that he is running on. He has a very impressive record, of voting for the interests of the people; and in my opinion, that's what we need in our elected officials. Basically his attitude is, if we can't afford things and pay up front for them; we shouldn't buy them. That's how our Federal and State governments, got us in the mess, that we're in. As I stated, he's got my vote. If it was lawful, I'd vote as many times as I could; but as it isn't, I guess I'll have to settle for one vote.

  16. Roger Cornelius 2013.12.22

    I thought about this since Cory first posted it, and still can't make myself vote for anyone of them.

  17. grudznick 2013.12.22

    Vote not in this skewed and silly poll, Mr. Cornelius, but with your hand and mind for the real conservative, the stoic and sensible one, Mr. Rhoden.

  18. Roger Cornelius 2013.12.22

    Moi? Vote for Rhoden? Bite your tongue.

  19. Paladn 2013.12.22

    ABR --anyone but Rounds.

  20. Disgusted Dakotan 2013.12.23

    Well, this explains why Powers is even more snitty about the Nelson campaign today. Is the SDWC viewership down that much, or is Mr Powers just deleting more and more posts?

    Is it me? Or are his attacks on Nelson taking an almost a frantic tone?

  21. caheidelberger Post author | 2013.12.24

    Deleting posts does deter readers. When the author is unwilling to engage in dialogue, what's the point?

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