Weekly roundup (November 5-November 11)
Well, that election thingy was fun, wasn’t it? Another busy week on Political Smokeout, where I:
- reported on an incorrect mailing from the South Dakota Democrats
- posted a robocall for Kathy Miles
- summarized the Nielson Brothers’ last poll
- uploaded an SDDP robocall
- followed up on whether Matt Varilek had tried to pull down a radio ad
- solicited election predictions
- previewed what losers might ask themselves
- related a story from South Dakota politics past
- predicted (incorrectly) a “dead cat bounce” for the Democrats
- interviewed Chris Nelson about not running the election
- attended the South Dakota Republican Party victory party
- watched Nelson declare victory
- talked to Republicans upset about Obama’s win
- interviewed a “disappointed” John Thune
- summarized the legislative picture
- previewed the 2024 (or 2028?) House race
- took a look at how a Republican won in a Democratic district
- marveled at peoples’ capacity for self-deception
- reported on Thune’s decision to not run for a leadership spot
- analyzed the Nielson Brothers’ polling
- noted a story about Mike Rounds’ relatives
- wrote about politicians’ friendly wagers over a football game
- went behind the numbers of Democrats’ legislative losses
- looked at what happened to supporters of the defeated referred laws
- saw the Washington Post predicted the GOP to take Johnson’s seat
I also blogged a last minute flurry of postcards, including:
- Herman and Ernie Otten
- the SDDP against the Don and Jenna Haggar
- three for and against Steve Hickey
- the SDDP against Dan Lederman
- a pair of (possibly erroneously) similar SDDP cards
- two boosting Tim Rave and Jon Hansen
- some positive SDDP postcards
- the SDDP against Hal Wick
- Republican “slate cards”
- the SDDP against Dick Werner
- an awkward typo in a handout from James Schorzmann
- the SDDP against Hal Wick, the SDDP against Phyllis Heineman, and Bob Deelstra on his own behalf
