The following post is mostly academic. The outcome of the June 7 Republican District 3 House primary is immaterial, given that the general electorate will punish mediocrity and Trumpism by…
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The Cook Political Report yesterday re-rated thirteen states in its assessment of the two major parties’ chances in the Presidential election. Twelve of those states shifted in Democrats’…
When I cast my vote in the Democratic Presidential primary at the Brown County courthouse yesterday during lunch, I was the 199th early voter in Brown…
I learn from one of my Representatives, Dan Kaiser, that the Brown County Republicans are hosting a closed forum* for him and his two fellow GOP primary candidates…
Here come the mosquitoes… and maybe the Zika virus: In February, the White House asked Congress for $1.9 billion in emergency funding to tackle the Zika…
Republican candidate for District 30 House Richard Mounce is complaining about a “small and vocal group” that sends “outrageous, and anonymous, post cards at election time”…
South Dakota’s Republican Presidential delegates who are willing to express a preference rebuffed a pitch from a John Kasich campaigner at their March 19 caucus and uniformly…
The South Dakota Democratic Party elected the following slates of delegates for Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton at its statewide caucus Saturday afternoon in Pierre: Sanders…
Even George Will can’t defend John Thune’s refusal to consider the sitting President’s Supreme Court nominee: The Republican Party’s incoherent response to the Supreme Court vacancy is…
Republican blogger John Tsitrian joins me in criticizing Senators John Thune and Mike Rounds for refusing to give President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee a hearing. Tsitrian…