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Posted on 10/18/2014 6:39:04 AM PDT by cotton1706
As with a few other races around the nation once expected to be locks for the GOP, they find themselves struggling where they shouldn't be.
South Dakota's Senate race was supposed to be a shoe-in for the Republicans -- one of three guaranteed pick ups in their quest to gain 6 six Senate seats to capture the majority.
West Virginia and Montana, the other two, still seem like sure bets for the GOP, but South Dakota is suddenly iffy.
There are many reasons that the contest has shifted into a four-way race that includes former Republican Sen. Larry Pressler, now running as an independent, and tea party candidate Gordon Howie.
As a result, it has been hard for Republican candidate Mike Rounds, a former two-term governor, to consolidate his party in this right of center state.
Yes, it's possible to point to the usual excuses, as today's GOP often does - there's a third party candidate, etc.... But what's also clear in South Dakota is that they have a flawed establishment candidate with a past that's come back to haunt him.
Rounds is also under fire for abuses in South Dakota, during his time as governor, of a federal program to swap green cards for business.
He told CNN, as he has before, that he did nothing wrong and has nothing to hide, but he concedes the questions about it have taken a toll on his campaign.
Perhaps worst of all, what it demonstrates is how divided today's Republican Party still is. In the end, perhaps Mitch McConnell's 'war on the Tea Party base' rhetoric may end up costing the GOP more than it won them, while costing McConnell his coveted majority, as well.
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If you are referring to MS, your wrong. I find a lot wrong with that and hoped that the election results would be overturned based on state law. And I wouldn’t be upset to see Cochrane get defeated by the same Black GOTV campaign that he used. But that is a much different situation than a fair and honest primary where my favored candidate loses. I will never vote to put democrats back in charge of this great country.
The phrase is “shoo-in.”
“The phrase is “shoo-in.”
I think proper grammar and spelling, as well as editors, have disappeared in the media.
I don’t understand how we can have a clear majority of governorships, yet not have a majority in the senate.
It has always bothered me. Are the Democrat candidates really that good? Are ours that bad?
People need to vote the way they live their lives. Most people live conservative family lives. They try to raise their families with good, conservative principle. Go vote that way!
Here in Georgia, we have been bludgeoned with Michelle “Nunn” ads. I am sick of them, but I see how they can be effective. My late 70s mom was being swayed by them, and she always votes R.
We have to do better adverting, unfortunately, I think so much tax payer money has been funneled off by Democrats so they can do these ads, I am not sure we can ever counter them.
Pressler hasn’t lived in South Dakota for at least a decade and was just a Washington lobbyist. Round has his faults but he and his family at least live in the state and have businesses here. I fail to understand the attraction that Pressler has for South Dakota voters as his positions are pure liberal and totally contrary to what the voters want. At least a recent ad blitz is showing Pressler to be in favor of high taxes, Obamacare and against the Keystone pipeline. Let’s hope Rounds wins
—well put—
They also refused to abolish the DOE, one of Reagan's campaign promises. The DOE has contributed mightily to the destruction of the Republic.
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