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…
Tag: South Dakota
As expected, the man who will really be running the state under the Noem/Rhoden Adminstration is high-priced lobbyist and lawyer Matt McCaulley. Team Noem announces…
Hey, Sleepy Al! Here’s an idea for problem-solving legislation: maybe you could propose a bill to tighten up our motor vehicle registration laws so South…
If Tuesday’s election results stand, South Dakota’s Legislature will have four more women in the 2019 Session than it did in the 2018 Session. The…
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…
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…
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’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:…
After all that talk of a “Blue Wave,” South Dakota Democrats made zero progress in the Legislature, increasing their share of the 70-seat House of…
As Senator Stace Nelson notes in my bubbling Election Eve comment section (don’t we all have to go to work tomorrow?), Republican Representative Kyle Schoenfish…