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Don't listen to talking heads
By this time every election cycle, it seems the only benefactors to all the rhetoric and mud-slinging are the talking heads on TV telling you what they want you to think and the inflated profit margins of the news media. This obscures the purpose or...Tags: Brock Greenfield, Elections, Republican Party, Politics, Art Fryslie
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Capitol Notebook: Election stumps reporter about news business
American News CorrespondentPIERRE — A conversation the other day with a young man voting for the first time was revealing. He wasn’t a fan of either major candidate for president. He didn’t want to mark his early ballot for Mitt Romney, but he absolutely didn&...Tags: Polls, Voting, Politics, Radio, Entertainment
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Mercer: Senate run latest bold move from Rounds
Ten years ago he almost didn’t run for governor. His friendly, homespun campaign proved to be the right answer in an ugly time. Mike Rounds no longer is the underdog. Now he is the intimidator. No longer governor because of term limits, he set...Tags: Parties and Movements, U.S. Senate, Tom Daschle, Politics, Mike Rounds
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Agricultural export market development endangered
Now is not the time to abandon public support for agricultural export market development, says Darrell Davis, Ipswich farmer and Chairman of U.S. Wheat Associates (USW). America will likely start to lose jobs if a Farm Bill that includes...Tags: Marketing, Consumers, Science and Technology, Exports
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R-CALF USA requests investigation into meatpackers' sheep procurement practices
BILLINGS, Mont. - In a letter sent on Oct. 31 to Agriculture Secretary Vilsack and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, R-CALF USA wrote that it strongly supports the bipartisan congressional requests for an investigation into the sheep procurement...Tags: Eric Holder, Antitrust Issues, Lamb, John Thune, Mike Enzi
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In our opinion: Expectations of elected
With the contentious 2012 elections finished, now comes the really difficult part. Those elected must begin to lead. And there are some lessons to be gleaned from the final tallies Tuesday night. - For Rep. Kristi Noem, she has learned from a...Tags: Executive Branch, Elections, Government, Dennis Daugaard, Republican Party
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Lessons SD voters taught us on election night
South Dakota voters didn’t leave any doubts Tuesday about the political leadership and the political direction they want taken in the state. They want state government to balance its budget, so they put into the South Dakota Constitution the...Tags: Parties and Movements, U.S. Senate, Elections, Dennis Daugaard, Democratic Party
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Noem gets 2nd US House term as SD goes for GOP
South Dakota voters chose Republicans at the top of the ballot Tuesday in the apparent hope that a new president working with congressional Republicans could jump start the nation's economy. Republican Rep. Kristi Noem won election to a second term as...
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Varilek pokes at Noem with election corn dog party
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Republican Rep. Kristi Noem and Democratic challenger Matt Varilek planned to be among the first voters to cast ballots early Tuesday before making last-minute campaign pushes in their hard-fought race for South Dakota's...Tags: Parties and Movements, Elections, Polls, Dennis Daugaard, Voting
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Put Varilek to work
I just watched another Kristi Noem commercial on television. One of the people in this ad declares that Kristi puts in long days working for all of us. That rings a bit hollow. We do know that those long days do not consist of attending her committee... -
Herseth Sandlin, Noem not only women in S.D. politics
South Dakota is a state where a woman was elected only once to Congress in the first 112 years of statehood and where a woman has never been elected governor. But a woman has now won the statewide seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in five...Tags: South Dakota Legislature, Tom Daschle, Libertarian Party, Voting, Politics
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Vote for Noem
I watched the debate on public broadcasting between the incumbent Kristi Noem and her challenger Matt Varilek last week. Kristi Noem handled herself very efficiently and gave excellent answers to all points, her opponent accused her of being...Tags: Elections, Voting, Politics
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