South Dakota in play!?!?

[bobabode]

This in from political junkie and librul booger, Sarge-The Plum Line at WaPo

"The South Dakota Senate race is emerging as a test of a longtime contention of progressives: Democrats can win even on difficult political terrain by unabashedly campaigning on an economically populist platform excoriating big money’s influence in politics and its role in rigging the economy against working and middle class Americans. Whether this is true or not, in South Dakota an extraordinary set of circumstances is emerging that might help the populist Democrat in the race, Rick Weiland.
The race probably remains a long shot for Weiland. But the situation is getting very, very interesting." WaPo

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...akota/?hpid=z3

[bobabode]

This 'un in South Dakota just keeps getting more and more interesting.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...hopes/?hpid=z3

"The battle for the Senate majority could wind up turning on a complex immigration investment scandal that sounds like the plot of a Coen Brothers film.
The labyrinthine subplots involve a suicide (and doubts about whether it was really a suicide), secret business dealings, lawsuits, bankruptcies and a state legislative probe related to the now-shuttered program.
At the center of it all: former South Dakota governor Mike Rounds (R). Long heavily favored to win his state's open Senate seat, Rounds has been plagued by questions about a green card program for foreign investors that operated problematically when he was governor. The immigrant investment controversy has drowned out most everything else in the campaign, opening the door for Democrat Rick Weiland and independent Larry Pressler -- and Rounds now finds himself locked in a closer-than-expected contest that has opponents eyeing an upset."

[donquixote99]

I expect the independent being in the race will help Weiland. Lots of Republicans may be looking for an alternative this year, but not be willing to actually vote for a Democrat. Pressler gives them a way to vote against Rounds, while Weiland keeps the Democrats.