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GOP Suddenly Looks Vulnerable in South Dakota Senate Battle
Fiscal Times ^ | 10/9/14 | Bob Garver

Posted on 10/09/2014 5:25:18 AM PDT by 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....

(Excerpt) Read more at m.thefiscaltimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: South Dakota
KEYWORDS: 2014; vote
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The slow creep of liberalism....statism, really, is what has allowed the fascists in the Democrat party to focus on these reliably conservative states.
1 posted on 10/09/2014 5:25:19 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

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


2 posted on 10/09/2014 5:26:25 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop

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


3 posted on 10/09/2014 5:28:01 AM PDT by tgusa (gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger .......)
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To: SoFloFreeper

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.


4 posted on 10/09/2014 5:28:13 AM PDT by ilgipper
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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."

5 posted on 10/09/2014 5:29:21 AM PDT by Liz ("Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences." Robert Louis Stevenson)
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To: SoFloFreeper

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


6 posted on 10/09/2014 5:31:47 AM PDT by ScottinVA (We either destroy ISIS there... or fight them here. Pick one, America.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

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


7 posted on 10/09/2014 5:32:42 AM PDT by nhwingut (This tagline for lease)
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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.

8 posted on 10/09/2014 5:32:59 AM PDT by ScottinVA (We either destroy ISIS there... or fight them here. Pick one, America.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

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


9 posted on 10/09/2014 5:33:26 AM PDT by CPT Clay (Follow me on Twitter @Clay N TX)
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To: ScottinVA

Wave election?

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

Where’s the beef?


10 posted on 10/09/2014 5:33:56 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: SoFloFreeper

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.


11 posted on 10/09/2014 5:34:27 AM PDT by Beagle8U (If illegal aliens are undocumented immigrants, then shoplifters are undocumented customers.)
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To: nhwingut

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


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


12 posted on 10/09/2014 5:35:46 AM PDT by boycott
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To: SoFloFreeper

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?


13 posted on 10/09/2014 5:36:23 AM PDT by KC Burke (Gowdy for Supreme Court)
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Is Rounds really a conservative? Will the GOP voters come home?


14 posted on 10/09/2014 5:40:21 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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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.


15 posted on 10/09/2014 5:42:16 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: SoFloFreeper
--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---

16 posted on 10/09/2014 5:46:00 AM PDT by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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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.


17 posted on 10/09/2014 5:48:03 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: SoFloFreeper

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.


18 posted on 10/09/2014 5:48:15 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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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.

19 posted on 10/09/2014 5:48:41 AM PDT by Maceman
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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.
20 posted on 10/09/2014 5:50:01 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (You have entered an invalid birthday)
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