Republican Senate candidate Mike Rounds is not inspiring confidence, even among the party faithful: "Rounds is in trouble," said Jon Schaff, political science professor at Northern State University in Aberdeen. "It is not good that now in multiple polls we…
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Ah, high school debate, that joyous season when ninth graders stand and deliver more public debates in one weekend than Mike Rounds will during the entire general election season. Looking at contemporary public political discourse through my high school debate…
Imagine a Rip Van Dakota conking out 41 years ago and waking up yesterday at Dakotafest. After saying, "Jeepers, those are big tractors!" and asking, "Where'd everyone get the Star Trek communicators?" Rip grabs a ribeye sandwich (eight bucks? Lucky…
It's hard to tell who won yesterday's Senate debate at Dakotafest. But Mike Rounds lost. You know how you can tell? The Republican frontrunner took time to attack Tea Party conservative Gordon Howie, the candidate who places fourth in every…
This is the Sue Wismer we've been waiting for. This is the Sue Wismer who would have beaten Joe Lowe by 30 points. This is the Sue Wismer who can beat Dennis Daugaard. South Dakota's three gubernatorial candidates debated in…
At Dakotafest today, Gordon Howie doubled my projection of his vote total in South Dakota's Senate race to double digits. The Howie boost doesn't come from his good hits on Rounds on EB-5 in today's debate (though I wholeheartedly approve,…
The Dakotafest debates are over. The Robinson-Noem tilt was a missed opportunity for the Democratic challenger in the House race, but gubernatorial candidate Susan Wismer and Senate candidate Rick Weiland both did Democrats proud, landing the punches that need to…
Lefty blogger Michael Larson and righty blogger Ken Santema agree: neither Rep. Kristi Noem nor Corinna Robinson said much worthwhile at Tuesday's Dakotafest "debate" (a term to which Santema explicitly and Larson implicitly object, given the absence of real clash).…