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Obama Sets Fuel Efficiency at 54.5 MPG by 2025: Jobs and Oysters!

Sierra Club exec Michael Brune digs President Barack Obama's newly announced auto fuel efficiency standard. 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025?! Holy cow, so do I! Even the Prius will have to work harder to meet that ambitious goal. Gripe…

Potpourri! Digital Campaigns Up, Gas Prices Down, Wages Stink

Too many tabs: time to clear the queue! "Digital is no longer part of the campaign; it is the campaign." Politico reports that Team Obama is marshaling a huge advantage in data resources over what it did in 2008. Team…

Gasoline Prices Down, Obama Up… Right?

Hey, y'all remember Dan Lederman and John Thune and their SDGOP friends' braying about President Obama's clever strategy to win re-election by raising gas prices, right? Turns out that man in the White House can't even do that right: Officials…

Raise Gasoline Prices to Win an Election?

The continuingly clueless Dakota War College labels "brilliant" the SD-GOP's braying about gasoline prices and President Obama's fault therefor: You and I and Mitt Romney know that's bogus. It's perhaps also worth noting that gas prices were at that anomalously…

Noem Says Keystone XL Approval Will Decrease Gas Prices; History Says No

Congresswoman Kristi Noem continues to demonstrate that she is not paying attention to anything other than the talking points her handlers hand her. In another unannounced drop-in, Rep. Noem showed up at an economic roundtable in Yankton to spout propaganda…

Romney Punctures Thune-GOP Gas Price Propaganda

David Lias nicely dissects Senator John Thune's deceptive decrials of rising gas prices. Of all possible numbers, gas prices are the one economic indicator posted prominently in every town in America (well, except for Norris, South Dakota, where apparently you…