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You are here: Home / Economics / C.R.E.A.M. / Badlands, you got to live it every day

Badlands, you got to live it every day

by DougJ|  July 12, 20207:26 pm| 15 Comments

This post is in: C.R.E.A.M., Political Fundraising

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I plan to hit every Senate race with a Republican incumbent this fall.  I just got a special request to raise money for Dan Ahlers in South Dakota:

Can we get a shout out for a Democrat running for Senate in South Dakota? Mike Rounds is weak and Dan Ahlers has experience winning in a State Legislative district even redder than the state as a whole.

South Dakota is one of those states with a totally nuts governor who could kill half the population by election day (as mistermix has detailed), so this might be a longshot that’s worth taking a shot at:

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  1. 1.

    Benw

    July 12, 2020 at 7:36 pm

    Never tell me the odds!

  2. 2.

    Kay

    July 12, 2020 at 7:47 pm

    This article deserves to go into the NYTimes hall of fame for deferential treatment of Donald Trump:

    Mr. Trump closed his eyes, Mr. Bannon said, tilting his head back “like a Roman emperor.”
    “I love it,” the future president ruled.

    The (required) Clinton-bashing too.

    Nobody loves Donald Trump like the NYTimes political team love Donald Trump. Because he’s a BOSS. Unlike the girly Democrats.

  3. 3.

    SiubhanDuinne

    July 12, 2020 at 7:51 pm

    @Kay: 

    I just finished reading that a short time ago. Now I feel slightly sick. And dirty.

  4. 4.

    Baud

    July 12, 2020 at 7:51 pm

    @Kay: 
    He does have a certain Nero-like quality.

  5. 5.

    Yutsano

    July 12, 2020 at 8:18 pm

    Like I said: I want them all. Especially all the open seats. I haven’t heard anything about the open seat in Tennessee at all. I know Marsha Blackburn won easily last time but that was four years ago and even Tennessee has changed. We should be gunning for everything.

    As far as South Dakota goes: there are small pockets of liberalism in Pierre and Sioux City. And as long as the Native Americans are allowed to vote safely and securely Ahlers has a chance. If Noem goes further off the deep end into killing her state deliberately hell we might even grab the governorship.

  6. 6.

    rikyrah

    July 12, 2020 at 8:22 pm

    @Yutsano:

    Come sit by me.

    Get rid of all of them.😠😠

  7. 7.

    tokyokie

    July 12, 2020 at 8:30 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    I just finished reading that a short time ago. Now I feel slightly sick. And dirty.

    You got through that whole mess? I stopped when I realized that the ramble I’d just finished was merely the intro, and that we were going to relive the whole weekend.

     

    Sure, der Trumpenführer is going to play dirty. That’s his default setting. But the dynamics of 2020 are completely different from 2016. First off, the Democrats aren’t running a candidate who’s been subjected to a 20-year hate campaign. Second, der Trumpenführer has a four-year record of gross ineptitude. How’s he going to convince people that he’s not really that bad in the wake of economic collapse and a deadly pandemic response? By coming out strongly in favor of preserving Jefferson Davis statues?

  8. 8.

    Aaron

    July 12, 2020 at 8:43 pm

    Thank you so much for the support! Dan is a great campaigner who works his tail off every day; I know every penny will be put to good use.

  9. 9.

    piratedan

    July 12, 2020 at 9:06 pm

    Seems like an opportunity for value and if noghing else make them spend to defend it

  10. 10.

    Ken

    July 12, 2020 at 9:11 pm

    @Baud: The lead-in-the-water quality, or the keep-it-in-the-family quality?

  11. 11.

    frosty

    July 12, 2020 at 9:47 pm

    Great title for a post about South Dakota!

  12. 12.

    Mai naem mobile

    July 12, 2020 at 10:35 pm

    South Dakota had Tim Johnson and Tom Daschle not that terribly long ago. All those people who voted for those guys can’t be dead. I was looking up Ahlers the other day when they were talking about Dime Store Sarah Palin and he looks like he’s got a good resume.

  13. 13.

    Gretchen

    July 12, 2020 at 11:55 pm

    I just heard two ads attacking Republican candidates in the Kansas Senate primary.  Nobody is bothering to attack the Democrat yet.  She will be facing a wounded opponent.

  14. 14.

    billcinsd

    July 13, 2020 at 12:52 am

    @Yutsano: Sioux City is in Iowa and is in the heart of Steve King territory. Sioux Falls is in SD. Noem barely won the governorship n 2018. Daschle and Johnson won on the remnants of the McGovern machine. From 1972 to 1978 SD had maybe the most liberal Senate delegation with McGovern and Jim Abourezk. sadly the state Dem party kind of rotted away after McGovern died.

  15. 15.

    tulsaslide

    July 13, 2020 at 12:09 pm

    Dan moved to the small town of Dell Rapids, South Dakota the year after I graduated from high school. Since then, he has done a lot of notable things to make the town better. He’s one of the good ones. He would make a good Senator…

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