I can’t predict the presidential race, but I can very much guarantee Harris will win the popular vote by over 10 million. Unfortunately we act like this is 1910 and we use an old out dated electoral system based on pony express, so yes, MAGAts, your guy has a chance.
I think the Dems will take the house and the Repugs take the Senate.
As for the local referendums, initiatives, referrals and amendments, let’s go!
• CON AMEND E, this has to do with changing gender in our Constitution to include women. While I believe this will pass by 80% of the vote, don’t be surprised to see a ton of undervotes. I had a prominent Democrat woman tell me she voted NO. She said, I served many years, and the state constitution didn’t prevent me from serving.
• CON AMEND F, this has to do with changing Medicaid to have a work requirement. We have a 2.1% unemployment rate in SD, anybody who isn’t working CAN’T. I think this will fail by 55%. People in this state have a problem with the legislature messing with our initiatives.
• REF LAW 21, this will also go down in flames with the landowners winning. I think it will fail by 70% of the vote or more, same as above, screw our legislature and how out of touch they are with our issues.
• IM29, Legalizing Rec MJ, unfortunately polling has been erratic, but the pot folks haven’t seen a positive yet and I think they are losing ground, unfortunately, this will probably fail by 52%. I guess peeps will just have to keep smoking diet weed. Hopefully when pot gets ready for retail sales in Minnesota they will have bus tours to Luverne. I still think if Harris makes it in the WH, we will get Federal legalization within 5 years, and many peeps minor pot felonies will be erased from their records.
• IM 28, eliminating food tax. I have been enjoying all the Republican lawmakers in the state trying to pour cold water on this, it is an immoral tax, most know that and it will easily pass by 70% of the vote. I think in the 2026 legislative session our unimaginative leg will pass a retail tax increase on all other goods actually hurting low income people even more. I call the food tax a boomerang effect, and why I almost voted against it.
• CON AMEND H, Open primaries will also pass by 70% or more. Half of registered voters in this state are Indies and we are fed up with the minority parties (that’s really what they are) controlling our elections.
• CON AMEND G, Abortion legalization, this will pass by 55% of the vote or more, but our idiots in Pierre will take this to the SDSC and have it overturned. Sorry Sodak ladies, you have to go to Minnesota for MJ, abortion and a decent pork chop on a stick.
*On a separate note I believe Dean Karsky will be booted from the Minnehaha County Commission, and if that happens I may just send him a ‘pleasant’ note about all of his years of service after getting APPOINTED and not actually elected into public service 🙁
I just noticed that our state AG, Marty Jackley, is an elector for Donald Trump. But Trump has been convicted of 34 felonies in the past year and has other criminal charges against him in multiple federal courts throughout our country. So, how can Jackley, the highest law enforcement official in the state of South Dakota, claim he is for law and order if he also wishes to be a presidential elector for a convicted felon and an alleged criminal for other felonies?
AND, if Jackley is going to question the validity of those felonies and other criminal charges against Trump, then why should we believe him over others when his proactive position to endorse and advocate a convicted criminal to be our next president and the leader of the “free” world is itself an indictment of questionable credibility, which then further brings done an entire criminal justice system which he claims to uphold and defend. #WhatAFxckingJoke
Keep in mind, too, that every attorney, public or private, has more than a client when involved in a legal matter, because they are first and foremost an officer of the court, and when a sitting Attorney General finds comfort in supporting a candidate for president, especially as an elector for that candidate, who has recently been convicted of a felony or felonies and has other current criminal indictments on dockets in several jurisdictions throughout the country, then you must ask yourself how such an attorney, as an officer of the court, can claim to be upholding the standards necessary and expected of a member of the bar – for there to be a workable and credible judicial system in our country – if you are willing to publicly and actively support a felon for public office, especially for the presidency when you consider that one of the main duties of the American presidency is to uphold and defend the Constitution and our laws, which is at the crux of maintaining and upholding our judicial system at all levels of government and which is an inherent duty of every officer of the court as well.
Also, in most jurisdictions, a convicted felon cannot vote, or at least not while they are serving their sentence, and given that broad understanding of the seriousness of a given felony or felonies, then what makes our Attorney General feel confident in having Trump serve as president again without that misguided or indifferent confidence directly attacking the duty of every officer of the court to uphold the law, to defend the law, and to both privately and publicly defend the efficacy of our court system and systems and the verdicts that they render and those avenues and advocacies, both legal and some in mere appearance, which are necessary to maintain the credibility of our overall judicial system?…. Especially, when you recognize that Trump as a felon has shown no remorse for his actions or convictions, and in so doing, anyone who is an enabler to that attitude, like being an advocate of Trumps candidacy as an elector demonstrates, is themself, too, complicit in the demeaning subversion and disdain for our judicial system, which itself would be deemed the upmost failed example of the duties of an officer of the court.
( and Woodstock adds: “Yah, but we do have an award named after a convicted felon which is given out each year at our local law enforcement dinner”….. 🙁 ….. Just saying….. ” ….. )
This entire cancer was diagnosed in 1975.
That’s when Jarhead Janklow became governor.
Jackley, Noem and the rest of the
SDGOP Circus Fleas learned their lessons well.
Bill F’ing Janklow.
The original Donald Trump.
His lessons live on ….
When I purchased a Farmer’s Insurance policy, Mr. Karsky was assigned as my agent. After several unreturned phone calls/emails – and a few other issues – I gave him the boot and requested a different agent. And he did not get my vote when I voted early and I hope your prediction is right.
Any Dem wins in the legislature?
Not looking forward to those that won in the SDGOP primary being in the legislature. They will take us to a new low with forcing their religious beliefs and nutjob conspiracies on the rest of us.
Definitely the “The original Donald Trump”, definitely…. Except that Janklow was smarter than Trump.
My big concern is presidential election. I’m nonpartisan so take no side and wait till last few days to pick. Trump would be a disaster. Using Trump bibles to advertise is not separation of church and state. Thousands of Trump convictions should disqualify him. His sexual perversion history makes for poor character and example. Bringing out dimwit celebrititites and a famous black boxer is irregular. Dance parties so he doesn’t have to answer issues about Israel. Making Musk a dancing fool. This is not a leader. It’s Vegas entertainment. I lean toward Harris. It could be time for a woman president that’s a minority. The last few days will be interesting advertising. I wish I had more choices but Trump appeals to a majority of ignorant Americans. You can lead a herd of horses to water and they will certainly drink.
“You can lead a horse to water and not make him drink unless you put a little salt in the oats,” is an old but wise proverb that me well apply in this situation………………..
i don’t know why dems would be for amendment h. if the top two vote getters in a primary go to the general election, chances are good that there will be no democrats period in the general election, or am i missing something?
scott is right, but the answer to that as a Democrat is to see the primary as your general, which is actually quiet acceptable since the Democrats in South Dakota haven’t won a statewide race since 2008.
But I do have mixed feelings about H. I think that it has many short-term good qualities, but those qualities come with a lot of long term pain. I believe overtime it merely helps to usher in oligarchical politics and leadership and destroys the capability for a minority to have an effective soapbox from which to broadcast their concerns; but the only way to successfully augment this concern as by turning the primary into an effective and successful general experience, I guess.
What South Dakota needs, and what America really needs, more than H is to have a very wealthy Democrat run for statewide office or president, because such candidates (Like Perot and Trump) tend to shake things up and have lasting influence, and in South Dakota we could definitely use some shaking up and left of center influences.
“‘….. wealthy Democrat’?”….. “….. and in South Dakota?”…. “Is there such a thing?”…. ( ….. “But then again, what about that alleged pickle magnet guy?”…. 🙂 )