GOP Suddenly Looks Vulnerable in South Dakota Senate Battle

Fiscal Times ^ | 10/9/14 | Bob Garver

[SoFloFreeper]

The strange three-way Senate race in South Dakota heated up this week with a new poll showing the GOP nominee’s lead shrinking — and with the revelation that the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee will commit $1 million to the race, largely to fund ads attacking him.

The Republican frontrunner, former Governor Mike Rounds, is competing with Democrat Rick Weiland and the state’s former Republican Senator, Larry Pressler, who now identifies as an Independent....

[SoFloFreeper]

The slow creep of liberalism....statism, really, is what has allowed the fascists in the Democrat party to focus on these reliably conservative states.

[goldstategop]

Demographics in this country are changing. Once reliable Red States are turning Purple.

[tgusa]

Not only that - felons and the dead always vote Dem.

[ilgipper]

We’ve traditionally seen a lot of Democrat Senators through that whole region of the country despite their general Republican trends. From Nebraska to the Dakotas to Montana out west, there are no shortage of long-time Libs who somehow get elected over and over.

[Liz]

THIS JUST IN Rick Weiland Endorsed by ex-Sen Tom Daschle: "I will be supporting Rick Weiland. Not because he is my friend, but because (like me) Weiland is a lifetime fighter for a woman's right to choose."

"If South Daokta women need someone to mess w/
their vaginas---Weiland's your man, Daschle said."

[ScottinVA]

I was watching this one with trepidation after Pressler decided to jump in and muck up the works.

[nhwingut]

Dems know how to play the game in red states. Run phony Indies.

[ScottinVA]

Demographics in this country are changing. Once reliable Red States are turning Purple.

And one-time purple states are turning blue. The whole country is drifting decidedly leftward.

[CPT Clay]

And Reps are pulling out of MI. They need to expand the battlefield.

[goldstategop]

Wave election?

The GOP is not running against Obama’s policies. They’re running against Obama.

Where’s the beef?

[Beagle8U]

Not mentioned is the fact that if Rounds loses it will be to Pressler, not the RAT in the race, and Pressler will caucus with the Republicans.

[boycott]

Dems know how to play the game in red states. Run phony Indies.

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Yep. And there are idiots that waste their time voting for them.

[KC Burke]

The Roves and the McConnells are either active with Pressler hurting the chances of a R majority or they should get him out.

Ask again and again, why won’t they get him out?

[DIRTYSECRET]

Is Rounds really a conservative? Will the GOP voters come home?

[goldstategop]

I haven’t see the enthusiasm we had in 2010.

There’s just the feeling as crappy as Obama has been nothing is going to change until 2017.

[rellimpank]

--the Republidums are being outdone by the "boots on the ground" everywhere , IMHO-

-the SEIU, Culinary Shirkers and other unions are busily out filling out absentee ballots , digging up voters and running good pointed ads,while Rove et al, plod along, saying nothing of consequence---

[goldstategop]

The Republican establishment doesn’t want to rock the boat.

So they probably won’t get anywhere they want to be.

Then again, after savaging the conservative base, they wonder where all the moderate and independent voters are going.

Serves ‘em right.

[Labyrinthos]

IMHO, SD has been purple since the 1980’s. Evidence: The left-wing extremist, Tom Daschle was elected and re-elected to the US House and Senate multiple times over 26 years.

[Maceman]

And one-time purple states are turning blue. The whole country is drifting decidedly leftward.

For the simple reason that there is no Republican Party ability or effort to make clear, easy and consistent arguments against the fallacies of Progressivism. Quite the contrary, actually.

Who lost America? The RINOcrat Uniparty.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Rounds has been getting hammered in the press and by Democrats in recent months about his embracing EB-5 while governor. He hailed it as an "economic tool" to attract investment in South Dakota by foreign interests while Governor from 2003 to 2010. Democrats didn't make much political hay about it until this election cycle. If Rounds loses, it will be because of Pressler, who claims to be able to caucus with Democrats and Republicans, but when he caucused with Democrats, it was by force from the Democrat party. Why send a "has-been" back to DC? Pressler has no principles or backbone.