Last night state Democrats hurdled step one in getting Huether elected to the governor’s office in 2018 by choosing Wismer to run against Daugaard. The ONLY way Wismer even has a snowball chance in Hell of beating an incumbent Republican would be if they could directly link him to the EB-5 scandal, which will be tough since there has been a complete media lockout on the subject.
Lowe’s loss wasn’t entirely a grand scheme by the Democratic party. Lowe admitted last night that he did very little advertising and NO direct mail. That is unfortunate, because he truly could have beat her if he would have just stuck with traditional political advertising, like Wismer did do. It worked for her.
What is even more frustrating is that the Dems have yet to say if they have a candidate for Secretary of State. As I have said in the past, this would have been their prime opportunity to go after that seat, especially with all of the scandals with Gant, and Shantel Krebs telling a petitioner last year that the petition and referendum process in South Dakota should be ‘Unconstitutional’. The last kind of person we want as election overseer. Speaking with a prominent Democrat recently, he said that the Dems have NO candidate for SOS and plan on putting their full support behind the governor candidate. Imagine that, putting all of their eggs in one basket.
I have never regretted leaving the Democratic party and becoming an Indy, and I don’t forsee myself ever returning. It just seems like SD Dems are always planning for the next election instead of the one at hand, and they proved this last night by securing Huether’s race for governor in 2018. As MMM would say, “Good Job.â€
It’s sounding like the new VA hospital & nursing home should be located at Exit 1 in Minnesota.
Please, give some background on Wismer. Accounting background, what else? I favor women candidates and Daugard has ethical irregularities. Some 80% favor him. I’d vote for Wismer to give Democrats and women a decent showing.
last night I voted at 6:50pm at the church on east 6th street. there were 257 republicans who voted and 80 dems who voted. it will be nice to see MMM lose in 2018. i think the republican slogan should be, “When MMM loses, we all win!”
An election of Democratic nominees by Indies and Dems?
How stupid can the Dem big party brains be?
So you have Republicans changing their party registration to Independent and then allowing these people to choose a Democratic party nominee for the right wing?
Choose a weak candidate to run against an all powerful, in control GOP?
No SOS candidate? This is the one office the Dems could have won two years ago if they weren’t so concerned about kissing SubPrime Mike’s ass and the keys to Dee’s convertible.
I have been forced to become a DINO. After decades of party involvement, I choose to continue the fight for principles away from the party.
Nobody is ‘independent’ in politics: unaffiliated is the correct word to describe your registration, Scott.
Little wonder South DaCola has been jettisoned from Madville’s upper sidebar.
Btw: moderated blogs are signs of cowardice and paranoia.
Politics is like poker. Parties that play every hand hard almost always end up going home broke. And the last few cycles – this one included – the Democrats have had lousy hands. Yet you seem to bemoan that they’re not throwing all their chips in on marginal hands just for the sake of making the game more interesting.
As best I can tell, the Dems in South Dakota have precisely three viable candidates for statewide office right now. Two are coasting on family legacies and were smart enough to keep their powder dry for now. The third is Mike Huether. They can’t build a bench because they have no apparatus from which to do it. Legislative pay is terrible and there’s little prospect of winning a statewide race, so younger talent in the party has already headed for the exits because they can’t find a future in staying.
The only way the Dems are getting back on the map in South Dakota if a statewide seat comes open in a presidential year. Heidi Heitkamp is a great example of why. A fantastic candidate, pragmatic, pro-gun, already elected twice to statewide office, had a great campaign staff, ran a near-perfect campaign in a presidential year, and still only beat a less-than-exceptional Republican candidate by less than one percent. Winning a statewide race in the Dakotas right now with a D behind your name is like threading a needle. If you’re SHS or Brendan Johnson, might as well wait until the political winds shift a bit.
Of all Sweetness in Life, I say BULL. Crap.
The problem in South Dakota is the laziness of most of the media and politicians. They build simple story lines and repeat them. If a candidate challenges these simple story lines, it is negative politics.
The SD Democratic Party should be 24 / 7 / 365 educating the voters and candidates on how to build a coherent simple story but instead are playing Facebook games and cozening up to their own corrupt politicos. The voters want to be educated 24 / 7 / 365 on why we should change directions. Don’t wait for the convention and Labor Day to begin the process.
Look at what happens after every campaign a Dem Constitutional candidate runs and loses. They pack up their stuff and go into hiding, never to turn up again. The Dems who ran and won 70, 60, 50, 40 years ago usually lost a few first. Are we such a winner take all mentality, we no longer know how to lose and try again?
The state party does not represent me or many of the people I know. Wake up and let others into your little circle. We always seem to be planning to win the next race without planning and winning this one.
The sad part about this is that Wismer would have been the perfect candidate to run against Krebs for SOS, two completely different individuals. Wismer’s quiet attention to detail would have been just what we needed in the SOS office, instead of chain-smoking, cheeseburger eating buffoon who passes the buck and abuses the office any chance he gets or a well connected blonde who used to sell shoes for a living.
And the Lowe/Daugaard matchup? That would have been dynamic.
Facebook games? More like asleep at the wheel games.