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…
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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…
Independent candidate Larry Pressler sends out a campaign video that refers to him as a Republican: "Listen to the words of South Dakota Republican Senator Larry Pressler...," intones Walter Cronkite, reminding us that on February 4, 1980, Pressler was a…
Pat Powers continues to feed his desperate need to insult Rick Weiland. This morning he recycles his tired language about Weiland being an "awful" candidate. His latest attack spins around the shaky thesis that Weiland "shuns" President Obama and thus…
Public Policy Polling does us the favor of paying attention to our Senate race again. Well, actually, they do Rick Weiland the favor: the Democrat's campaign team asked PPP to revisit South Dakota's U.S. Senate race, and PPP obliged. Surveying…
Northern Plains News doesn't just provide new polling data from Nielson Brothers Polling on South Dakota's U.S. Senate race; NPN also provides nifty clickable widgets to display the data: NBP is consistent with every other poll, showing Mike Rounds with…
How you read this post depends on how you read Larry Pressler. So ask yourself right now: who is Larry Pressler? Smart and experienced politician? Confused old man? Sad media hound on one last ego trip? Recovering Republican doing penance…
Along with a pair of nifty ads, U.S. Senate candidate Rick Weiland also released a poll which celebrates the fact that he's five points behind Undecided and ten points behind Mike Rounds. Go ahead, Republican readers, laugh it up. I'll…