Ed Randazzo failed to beat a dead man in the District 32 House primary. Last night, he failed to beat the dead man’s wife. District…
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Any idiot can get a leak from a political schemer and blog it. My I-told-you-so of the week comes from much more serious analysis of…
Specific Campaign Materials Still Verboten at Minnesota and South Dakota Election Sites The United States Supreme Court ruled this morning that Minnesota’s law banning political…
I labor under no illusion that the hard-fought Republican primary has left any lasting division that will induce Marty Jackley to do anything other than…
Someone in the comment section got me thinking about girls versus boys in the contests for South Dakota Legislature. Let’s stroll through some numbers, with…
Senator Lance Russell has been running for attorney general since last summer. He also declared his candidacy for reëlection to his District 30 Senate seat…
Out of 66 counties where candidates filed to run for sheriff this year, 39 had just one candidate for the job. Two counties—Todd and Hand—had…
We can’t make a final count of candidates and primaries yet; the Secretary of State’s office still needs to process petitions that slid through her…
Secretary of State Shantel Krebs hasn’t spoken up to oppose Donald Trump’s unnerving plot to send Secret Service agents into our polling places to watch…
In the same press release announcing the rejection of the redistricting petition, Secretary of State Shantel Krebs confirms a teeny-tiny concern that occurred to me…