[DakotaGator]

For those Freepers not familiar with South Dakota; the state is somewhat philosophically divided between the east and the west with Liberals more concentrated in the East and Conservatives more concentrated in the West. This is roughly matched by the Missouri River physical divide in the middle of the state and a similar time zone divide. So the eastern Liberal vote comes in earlier than the western Conservative vote.

This is not exact. And Democrat vote fraud comes at the end from late reporting Democrat counties throughout the state once they know how many votes to fake. That's how Tom Dashle and Tim Johnson were elected.

So as the western SD vote comes in Kristi should do well. It's just a matter of whether she does well enough to exceed the margin of fraud.

[Agrarian]

I’d have to disagree a little. When Noem was up by about a thousand votes with half the precincts reporting it was over. Even with reservation fraud a dem has to be at least even and usually a few thousand ahead coming out of east river country. I told my wife to expect Noem’s lead to slowly widen for the rest of the night, just like I told nervous GOP friends to relax when Thune was down a bit coming out of East River 6 yrs ago.

Remember how Daschle needlessly kept us up late? He knew dang well he was toast before a single west river vote was counted, and so did miss perky tonight. It had to be painful for perky to pretend she could win this race for all those hours tonight, just as it was for old Tom. I popped champagne early that night and tonight as well. I’m one ecstatic west river ex-pat right now.

Two down, one to go...