Dagnabit! I try to enjoy my breakfast with a nice story about the possibility that Matt Varilek is building momentum, and Nielson Brothers Polling has to come and sneeze on my Cheerios. As the insomniac Mr. Mercer reports*, NBP has…
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Here's an example of spin gone wrong. Pat Powers runs an unsourced photo of three guys sitting outside. You can't make out any of the faces or the location, but Powers says that his unnamed source says that it shows…
Bob Mercer continues to insist (without paragraph breaks) that the 6% who voted for Independent B. Thomas Marking in 2010 will decide the outcome of the 2012 race between Rep. Kristi Noem and Matt Varilek. Because I like to disagree…
Hi, I'm Representative Kristi Noem. I've been in Washington for two years now. But I don't want to talk about my record. I need to make you think that my opponent, a campaign rookie whom I ought to be leading…
Rep. Kristi Noem has flip-flopped back to supporting a discharge petition for the Farm Bill she has so far failed to move. A discharge petition is a way Congresspeople can force the House leadership to take action on a bill.…
Kristi Noem has famously declared that she "didn't go to Washington to talk." She went to Washington "to get stuff done." Talking is about all she is doing. She hasn't gotten stuff done on the production tax credit to keep…
Bob Mercer recycles an attempted headline and overstates the importance of B. Thomas Marking in South Dakota's 2010 Congressional race: Statewide, Marking did the best of any third-line candidate in a South Dakota election for U.S. House in more than…
Matt Varilek follows up his warm fuzzy metaphor punch with a much more direct radio ad hammering Congresswoman Kristi Noem for non-performance: Varilek's text: I'm Matt Varilek, and in my campaign for Congress, I've been doing lot of listening. I'm…