[hchutch]

But a lot of Americans, including people in SD, have a high opinion of the FBI.

If it gets to the point where there is a fight over unseating Johnson because vote fraud altered the totals in Johnson's favor by a wide enough margin, we need to make sure that people will trust the informationb on the party -line vote that might likely occur.

Who would the average people (I am talking about folks who hardly pay attention to politics until the last two weeks before an election) believe? The RNC, the DNC, or the FBI?

The FBI is believable to the vast majority of the people because they clearly do no thave a dog in the fight - Thune does, and he'd be painted as a "Sore Loserman."

[Elle Bee]

But a lot of Americans, including people in SD, have a high opinion of the FBI.

The FBI is believable to the vast majority of the people because they clearly do no thave a dog in the fight - Thune does, and he'd be painted as a "Sore Loserman."

The FBI is feckless .. and now run by one of Clinton former US Attorneys

Who would the average people (I am talking about folks who hardly pay attention to politics until the last two weeks before an election) believe? The RNC, the DNC, or the FBI?

None of the above

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[Coop]

Senate voter turnout was up 27% statewide for this year's close contest compared with 1998, but in Shannon County turnout increased by 89%. Again, no other county in the state showed comparable turnout increases. Shannon County is largely Indian country, home to the Oglala Sioux nation, and is heavily Democratic. But Mr. Thune managed to receive only nine more votes there than did Mr. Daschle's opponent in 1998, notwithstanding the much larger turnout.

Mr. New points out that this is just a 4% increase in GOP votes over 1998. In the other three South Dakota counties where Indians constitute more than two-thirds of the population, Mr. Thune gained between 23% and 43% more votes than the GOP candidate in 1998. The Oglala Sioux would seem to give new meaning to the phrase "bloc voting."

A follow-up to our discussion from a previous thread.