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Colorado District 3: state Rep. Ken Salazar will defeat Greg Walcher, whose past support for transferring water from Western Slope to Denver is an Achilles Heel in this drought-plagued district. Dem. Pickup. Illinois District 8: Congressman Phil Crane has been caught napping, and the collapse of the Illinois G.O.P. will combine to elect Melissa Bean. Dem. Pickup. Kansas Distrcit 3: In a minor surprise, conservative Kris Kobach will very narrowly defeat Congressman Dennis Moore. A recount is possible. Rep. Pickup. Louisiana District 7: There will be a runoff between Lafayette surgeon Charles Boustany and Lake Charles state Senator Willie Mount,...

Poll: Republicans inch ahead By Bill Harlan, Journal Staff Writer Republicans John Thune and Larry Diedrich have overcome double-digit deficits to draw ahead of their Democratic rivals, Sen. Tom Daschle and Rep. Stephanie Herseth, according to an independent poll. The Republicans' leads were about 3 percentage points - within the poll's 3.5 percent margin of error - and pollster John Zogby of Zogby International warned that the Senate and House races in South Dakota were too close to call. "We've got two competitive races here," he said. Libertarian House candidate Terry Begay polled less than 1 percent. The Rapid City...

Zogby polls give G.O.P. Federal candidates narrow leads.

The National Rifle Association has switched its endorsement in the US House race to Democrat Stephanie Herseth. The gun-rights group had endorsed her Republican challenger, Larry Diedrich, in the June special election. Herseth won that election and faces Diedrich again in next month's general election. The National Republican Congressional Committee says the NRA bases its endorsements on votes taken by incumbents. Since Herseth voted to lift a ban on most guns in Washington DC, the NRA gave her its endorsement.

Republicans are desperately trying to downplay South Dakota’s election last week, in which Democrat Stephanie Herseth eked out a win over Republican State Senator Larry Diedrich. However, the grim truth of that race is that it may portend major problems for the GOP in this part of the country during the upcoming fall elections. Agriculture, the economic backbone of this region, has been hit hard by wrongheaded policies on the part of the Department of Agriculture, and in particular the apparent hostility of USDA chief Ann Veneman towards America’s beef producers. Among those whose livelihood is raising cattle, the ultimate...

RAPID CITY, S.D. - The Republican Party in South Dakota has strayed from its core, and disapproving conservative voters are staying home on election day, a conservative West River group says. Members of the South Dakota Conservative Political Action Committee decided to speak up after Republican Larry Diedrich lost the special U.S. House election a week ago, said state Sen. Bill Napoli, R-Rapid City. "Some Republicans stayed home because they are tired of the party," Napoli said. "Without trying to appeal to conservatives to come back to the party, we will just keep losing these races." Voter turnout in Pennington...

After months of campaigning, Democrat Stephanie Herseth is being named the winner in the race for South Dakota's lone U.S. House seat. Hours after the polls closed, the Associated Press called the race. The tally was extremely tight, with Herseth leading over her opponent, Republican Larry Diedrich, by less than 3,000 votes. If Herseth is indeed the final victor in the race, she will be the first woman Democrat from South Dakota to take a seat in the U.S. Congress. She will fill the vacancy left by Bill Janklow when he resigned in January. Herseth and Diedrich will face each...

TOTAL PERCENT PRECINCTS TOTAL VOTES OF VOTE REPORTING PRECINCTS U S HOUSE (R) DIEDRICH LARRY 37578 47 304 798 (D) HERSETH STEPHANIE 42046 53 304 798

Tonight is the special election in South Dakota to fill the remainder of Bill Janklow's seat in Congress. Most political observers seem to think that Herseth will win the special election. According to the Pierre Capitol-Journal, turn-out has been strong in that area and the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader reports many requests for absentee ballots. The key to South Dakota is Minnehaha County (Sioux Falls). If Herseth does well there, Diedrich will need to clean up in the remainder of the state in order to win....Aberdeen, Huron, Rapid City, Watertown etc. Any South Dakota Freepers have any gut reactions or insights...

http://www.sdsos.gov/results/statwide.shtml Here you go ya'll! If anyone has a better site to use, please put it on this thread. This is the best I could find. I love Free Republic! Go Diedrich!

June 1, 2004 Narrow loss will do, says Diedrich in S.D.By Peter Savodnik SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Republican congressional hopeful Larry Diedrich is effectively conceding defeat in today’s South Dakota special House election before the polling booths even open. The former state senator dramatically ratcheted down expectations during an interview with The Hill at his campaign headquarters, saying he would be happy to lose to Democrat Stephanie Herseth by only five percentage points. He has trailed her by seven or more points in recent polls, and, if he loses, it would be the GOP’s second special-election defeat this year. In...

Will GOPer Pull Upset in South Dakota? by John Gizzi Posted May 28, 2004 With four days to go before the special U.S. House election in South Dakota, Republicans in the state and in Washington have begun to grow upbeat about retaining a seat they had privately written off less than a month ago. Almost since the resignation of Republican Rep. Bill Janklow following his conviction on manslaughter charges, Democrat Stephanie Herseth (who drew an impressive 46% of the vote against Janklow in '02) has appeared a slam-dunk. A win by lawyer Herseth--grand-daughter of a former governor, daughter of a...

strong>The Dem's strategy? Hate-Bush and keep away from Kerry ...All eyes political turn to South Dakota this weekend for the June 1st special election to replace murderous ex-congressman and ex-governor Bill Janklow. The Democrats have nominated Janklow’s unsuccessful 2002 opponent Stephanie Herseth. The GOP has put up a popular state senator and prominent soy bean farmer Larry Diedrich.The race is newsworthy on several levels. We’ve done a little analysis: The Tim Johnson Affair. At a rally for Herseth, Tim Johnson referred to Republicans as the “Taliban wing.” This horribly inappropriate epithet was common among leftists before 9-11 (Christians are no...

Poll puts Herseth in leadBy Denise Ross, Journal Staff WriterWith less than one week remaining in the campaign for South Dakota's U.S. House seat, Democrat Stephanie Herseth, who ran for the same seat in 2002, has maintained a comfortable lead over Republican Larry Diedrich, a poll shows. But Diedrich has been able to chip away at the 16-point lead Herseth held six weeks ago. Herseth leads Diedrich 52 percent to 41 percent, according to a poll of 503 likely voters conducted May 19 and 20 by Zogby International of Utica, N.Y., for South Dakota media outlets, including the Rapid City...

Is it too good to be true...or does the GOP candidate (Larry Diedrich) have a shot at winning next Tuesday's Special Election? According to recent poll done by a Sioux Falls TV station, the race between Diedrich and Stephanie Herseth looks like a dead heat. If Herseth loses this race, Tom Daschle will be deeply saddened. Any SD Freep'ers have any insight on this race?!

Democrat Sen. Tim Johnson, who barely "won" in South Dakota's fraud-plagued election of 2002, refuses to apologize for referring to Republicans as a Taliban. Appearing Sunday with Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle at an event in Sioux Falls for U.S. House candidate Stephanie Herseth, Johnson said: "When Stephanie Herseth fills this seat, we are going to have a rising star in the House of Representatives. And how sweet it's going to be on June 2 when the Taliban wing of the Republican Party finds out what's happened in South Dakota." Herseth's GOP opponent, Larry Diedrich, issued a statement Monday saying:...

From CNN's "Capital Gang" Stephanie Herseth, Democrat congressional nominee in SD, is leading the Republican challenger, Larry Diedrich, 49-40 (Argus-Leader survey), as the campaign to select a successor to former Rep. William "Bill" Janklow, R-SD, enters its final ten days. However, Diedrich has improved his poll numbers, after campaign visits by Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-IL, First Lady Laura Bush, and Second Lady Lynne Cheney. An issue dividing the two is abortion: Herseth opposes partial-birth abortion but would allow "exceptions," a position Republicans insist mean that she is really in support of partial-birth abortion, a procedure that the American Medical Assn....

Republican Larry Diedrich is running neck and neck with Stephanie Herseth, his Democratic rival in South Dakota’s upcoming special House election, an independent poll to be released tonight shows. The poll gives Herseth 47 percent, compared to Diedrich’s 44 percent, marking a huge gain for the Republican. Earlier this year, Diedrich trailed Herseth by nearly 30 points. The three-point spread falls within the survey’s four-point margin of error. file photo Stephanie Herseth -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The poll was conducted by television station KELO, an ABC affiliate, in Sioux Falls. Mark Millage, the station’s news director, did not return telephone calls seeking more...

Republican Larry Diedrich is running neck and neck with Stephanie Herseth, his Democratic rival in South Dakota’s upcoming special House election, an independent poll to be released tonight shows. The poll gives Herseth 47 percent, compared to Diedrich’s 44 percent, marking a huge gain for the Republican. Earlier this year, Diedrich trailed Herseth by nearly 30 points. The three-point spread falls within the survey’s four-point margin of error. The poll was conducted by television station KELO, an ABC affiliate, in Sioux Falls. Mark Millage, the station’s news director, did not return telephone calls seeking more information about the poll. One...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Former state Senate Majority Leader Barb Everist says she will seek the Republican party's nomination to run in the special election to finish U.S. Rep. Bill Janklow's term. Everist said she would then hope to be elected to a full two-year term in November. Janklow, R-S.D., announced he would resign on Jan. 20 after being convicted last month of second-degree manslaughter in the death of Minnesota motorcyclist Randy Scott. Janklow, a former governor, is the state's only member of the U.S. House. "I am interested in running because I love legislating," Everist said Monday. "I know...