Nielson Brothers Polling releases another chunk of data on the U.S. Senate race in South Dakota. Polling 839 likely South Dakota voters during the first week of October, NBP finds that Marion Michael Rounds's lead over Rick Weiland is slipping:…
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The trio of U.S. Senate hopefuls working to keep South Dakota Republicans from anointing everyone's favorite insurance salesman, M. Michael Rounds, as the party's nominee must be watching with a little bit of anxiety as two of their most important…
Last month I thought I had a brilliant idea: get Libertarian candidate Kurt Evans to conditionally back Republican Rep. Stace Nelson in the GOP Senate primary. Nelson gets synergy with Libertarian-leaners (who already make up a chunk of his campaign…
If I run for partisan office someday, I run the risk (a small risk in South Dakota) that some party diehard will primary me and beat me up for being a DINO—Democrat In Name Only. "Heidelberger's no liberal!" my fellow…
No fisticuffs... alas! The Family Heritage Alliance hosted the three Republican challengers to Marion Michael Rounds's primary coronation in Rapid City last Wednesday. And bless their theocratic hearts, they are kind enough to post video of three stump speeches in…
We're a week into meteorological fall, and there are plenty of reminders of what I think of as "South Dakota Fall": crisp air, bonfires, sweatshirts, Friday high school football and Saturday college football, and homecoming parades. I took the quick…
It's Pledge Week in the U.S. Senate campaign in South Dakota. State legislator Larry Rhoden (R-29/Union Center) pledges that, if elected, he will serve only two terms in the U.S. Senate. The man who has served 13 years in the…
Update 16:59 CDT: Annette Bosworth's beacon, Che Guevara, also wanted America to over-extend itself in multiple Vietnams. * * * David Montgomery gets all five of South Dakota's U.S. Senate candidates on the record in opposition to attacking Syria... well,…