For most of this decade South Dakota has been written off as terminally red, as the SD dems have been unable to win a statewide race. We had a few rays of hope when Senator Rounds 2014 U.S. senate run turned into a 3 way race with former senator Pressler running as an independent, but Rounds won handily with barely a majority of the votes.
Then came Billie Sutton, a top college rodeo athlete who overcame a life changing rodeo accident that left him a paraplegic to graduate, become a small town banker, and return home to help run the family ranch. In the legislature he’s been a voice for honest government in the midst of a corrupt republican supermajority that would make the old Chicago machine blush.
This poll shows that Sutton is no sacrificial lamb, polling only 4% behind his battered GOP opponent, congress member Kristi Noem (R-Big Ag). The poll was sponsored by the Sutton campaign, but the pollster played it fair and when the participants were given additional info, support for Sutton increased to a 6% lead!
DNC, better put South Dakota back on your map…
Sassy Democrat 