As Senator Tim Johnson confirms the open playing field we've been assuming for quite some time, a well-funded out-of-state conservative PAC puts some teeth in the threat to the GOP machine's hope that achievementless former Governor M. Michael Rounds would…
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Public Policy Polling offers some support to the Displaced Plainsman's thesis that the SDGOP propaganda machine is hyping a possible 2014 Democratic primary battle for Senator Tim Johnson's seat to keep our attention away from the real party-wrecker that could…
LK totally gets PP's game. Dakota War College's non-stop coverage of the no-new-news story of whether Brendan Johnson will run for Senate next year makes perfect sense when we realize it's a ruse to keep us from talking about the…
...and Rounds Made Me a Democrat! When Jeff Barth and then Matt Varilek entered the 2012 U.S. House race, I gave each man's announcement one blog post. When M. Michael Rounds entered the 2014 U.S. Senate race yesterday, GOP mouthpiece…
Gordon Howie tries to ingratiate himself with Kristi Noem by encouraging her to run for Senate in 2014. He asserts that, as a "solidly conservative" Representative, Noem would be possible Senate candidate and former Governor Mike Rounds's "worst nightmare." That's…
The comment section here moves pretty quickly. Some comments deserve a headline of their own. Today's example: Senator Stan Adelstein (R-32/Rapid City) reads my account of Rep. Stace Nelson's (R-25/19 Fulton) community organizing to stop the Hanson County Dairy and…
M. Michael Rounds for Senate? Oh yes, please, Republicans, serve it up! Mr. Mercer reminds us of the plums we can pull out of that pie: The 10 percent budget cuts that his successor, Gov. Dennis Daugaard, felt necessary to…
In his profile of Governor Dennis Daugaard's inner circle, David Montgomery observes that Governor Daugaard stays in touch with technology: Whether in his office or traveling, Daugaard always has his Android smartphone at hand to send emails and text messages…