I’ve dumped the county-by-county vote totals for our statewide ballot questions and candidates into a single spreadsheet and run some numbers. Beyond the fact that…
Month: November 2018
I can’t report this without giving my political detractors an opening to distract from the main issue by dinging me as a sore loser. But…
Seven years ago, DCI agent Dave Lunzman helped law enforcement officers gang up on fellow DCI agent Laura Zylstra Kaiser in retaliation for her daring…
The only people who had a worse election night than South Dakota Democrats were South Dakota Libertarians and independents. candidate Party Race votes total vote…
Democrat Bill Adamson thinks I’ve been thinking too much about his illegitimate and thus deservedly failed bid for District 7 House. Wait ’til he sees…
Mathew Wollmann got a new job the day after the election. The former Legislative Lothario is now a Madison city cop: Mathew follows in the…
The easy visuals, homey narratives, and riveting horserace of the Noem/Sutton gubernatorial contest crowded every other race out of the media consciousness. Dusty Johnson thus…
I just heard Seth Tupper say that Billie Sutton’s second-place finish last night was “near miraculous.” If that’s a miracle, then your God has no…
I’ll get back into problem-solving mode in a bit. But first, some predictions about what South Dakota’s terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad 2018 election forebodes:…
On the 2018 ballot measures, South Dakotans showed a high aversion to change. South Dakotans rejected the two measures that could have made a substantive…