The collapse of South Dakota Democrats

Hot Air ^ | APRIL 17, 2010 | ED MORRISSEY

[RobinMasters]

Less than ten years ago, a Democrat from South Dakota ran the US Senate. Just six years ago, Tom Daschle still led Senate Democrats as minority leader. Now, in 2010, South Dakota Democrats won’t even present a candidate to run against the man who unseated Daschle in one of the strangest and most total collapses in political history. My friend Dr. Eric Ostermeier at Smart Politics tries to make sense of the situation:

While South Dakota has long been a Republican stronghold in state politics and presidential elections, the Democratic Party has performed quite competitively in the Mount Rushmore State in Congressional races for several decades.

However, in what can only be described as an embarrassment for Democrats, the Party’s failure to field a candidate in the U.S. Senate contest against 1-term GOP incumbent John Thune marks the first time in 34 contests since popular vote U.S. Senate elections were introduced in 1914 that a Democratic candidate has failed to appear on the ballot in South Dakota. …

[StormEye]

"Worse then that, Daschle and McGovern both won on recounts. Johnson won on some shady computer malfunction BS till they had the number of votes needed to win.

I hope the citizens of South Dakota are now aware of how the communist Democrat Party has corrupted the election process in their state. Please South Dakota, don't allow the Democrats to do it again.