Rep. Drew Dennert (R-3/Aberdeen) isn’t winning over his home newspaper on Senate Bill 7, the campaigning-at-the-polls measure he’s co-sponsoring with Sen. Stace Nelson (R-19/Fulton). The Aberdeen…
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Ever the Constitution hawks, Sen. Stace Nelson (R-19/Fulton) and Rep. Drew Dennert (R-3/Aberdeen) rush to push South Dakota law beyond the envelope of a new…
Strike that January election! The Democratic Party’s State Central Committee must’ve mustered a quorum Saturday and decided to postpone election of new officers until March…
Hat tip to independent U.S. Senate candidate Kurt Evans, who is more keenly tuned to alternative-party news than I am! Last week, following the official…
If you want to run for Democratic Party chair, you’re going to have to miss a crackerbarrel, not to mention a couple good debate tournaments…
Amidst the wreckage of last week’s election, an eager reader pointed out one shiny gem: sane people committed to sensible government kicked litigious yahoos off…
Who’s the most awesome Democrat in South Dakota? If we can get past the laughter (awesome? in a party that hasn’t moved the needle away…
My relative lack of enthusiasm for 2018’s five ballot measures was reflected in one odd statistic from our general election results: a larger percentage of voters…
The surge in numerical voter turnout that appears to have been driven by the excitement generated by Billie Sutton’s failed campaign has one downside (for…
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…