I think it will be replayed at 8:00 (mountain time) on CNBC.
Hope you can watch it. Our guy did really, really good!
Are you in "West River"?
After watching the debate I had a good day going...........and then my beloved Broncos forgot to show up for the game.
Oh, well...........
GO THUNE and DIEDTRICH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Glad to hear Thune performed well, and I will definitely try to hunt it down on CNBC. Sounds like Diedrich is going to have a tougher go of it. Yup, I grew up in West River. 2:1 to 3:1 GOP country.
What people on this forum and elsewhere don't realize is just how smart, smooth, and formidable Daschle is. He is so reviled by right-thinking people everywhere that they can't see that.
What I explain to those who ask me (and believe me, I am one of those people who has been forever having to explain why a conservative state like SD keeps sending a liberal like Daschle to Washington), is that SD voters understand that the only thing that small states like SD have that keeps them in the game is their Senators. Therefore, in a choice between a sharp Democrat and a dull-witted Republican, enough GOP voters will cross the line to vote to make the difference.
We saw this with Daschle beating Abdnor. When I was in junior high, I had a chance to meet Abdnor when he was the western district Representative. Our family was on a trip to the east coast, and my dad took us to meet Abdnor -- he took us on a personal tour of the Capitol building, and let me sit in the Speaker's chair, since they weren't in session. A very nice guy, very conservative, but no match for Daschle as a speaker and debater. The same thing happened with Pressler, when enough people figured out that he wasn't nearly as sharp as his Harvard law and Oxford Rhodes scholar background would indicate.
The fault lies with the SD GOP, which all too often produces mediocre candidates. The current crop of Rounds, Thune, and Diedrich are the best I have seen in years.
Since I no longer live in SD, my only involvement is with my checkbook and with quietly lobbying my family in SD to make sure they get out and vote, but I would hope that a new generation of SD Republicans will realize that good across-the-board candidates need to be identified, groomed, and elected. Of course, given a straight-up choice, we will always back the Republican, but we can't waste elected offices, especially stepping-stone positions, on candidates who aren't 1. able to take it to the next level, and 2. across-the-board conservatives who are able to give a positive articulation of conservative principles and policies.
We were so dominated for so long by Pressler and Janklow, that we had no depth, and that has to change -- there need to be good candidates with some name recognition who are ready to step up to the plate when the guy ahead falters.