I also hope that the Establishment candidate's struggles to get reelected or elected, both this year and in 2012, results in the people shoving aside their preferred candidates in future elections. Their coffers have been drained, their donors disappointed, and their candidates, worthless.
More likely, a shoo-in....
FWIW.
FWIW, RCP has Rounds comfortably in the lead: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2014/senate/sd/south_dakota_senate_rounds_vs_weiland-4091.html
I do think we need to coalesce around Republicans. Not slavishly or absolutely, but as a general rule.
This was the path followed by Ronald Reagan and it eventually led to him winning the Presidency.
Changing the GOP to a party MORE IN TUNE with the Constitution is a Herculean task to be sure. But not impossible...and worth the effort.
I hope Rounds can pull it out also. I also hope that, because of this type of situation becoming more common, more Republicans learn that the designated GOPe “most electable candidate” actually is not the most electable.
I’m tiring of being a member of the Stupid Party. I so want it to morph into the “Smart Party”.
He's done enough damage.
—having been in SD til a few weeks ago, I’d comment that Rounds’ ads are pedestrian , compared to the snarky, sneering opponent (which , unfortunately, are much more memorable)-——
"Our corrupt GOP-Establishment, anti-Tea-Party scum-of-the-earth politician is better than the corrupt Demonicrat scum-of-the-earth politician."
South Dakota voters must be excited in looking forward to casting their ballot.
Rounds will pull it out. My prediction for the Senate in Jan. 2015: GOP 53 / ‘RATS 47
The phrase is “shoo-in.”
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!
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