South Dakota

So you had Tom Daschle was going to run against Chris Dodd.

Tom Daschle from South Dakota was running against Chris Dodd from Connecticut to be the new minority leader.

George Mitchell had been the majority leader from Maine, but he was retiring.

And so you had an opening here.

Well, guess what? Tom Daschle won by one vote.

And we now know who Ben Nighthorse Campbell voted for.

I mean, do you really think that he was going to vote for a Connecticut Yankee in Chris Dodd? Or is he going to vote for a guy who represents the Sioux Nation in South Dakota? Particle

politics.

football yeah so is this a triple or a double lock so is this a triple or a double lock so is this a triple or a double lock let's just make a triple friends forever

triple lock on uncw minus three and a half we move to fullerton at south dakota the coyotes laying one and a half total of 173 and a half as they will be dictating the pace running up and down the floor here in this one uh coyotes at home for me is what my pick is cap

this is a coyote yeah this is a coyote's beat down um oh beat down I think they win this by double digits.

I think the line's super short, and that gave me pause when I was going through it.

I can't remember.

Either way, Trenton Vermilion, don't like that.

South Dakota State plays with pace.

This isn't telling to you? Yeah.

We're going to California and Texas and New York.

And we're going to South Dakota and Oregon and Washington and Michigan.

And then we're going to Washington, D.C. to take back the White House.

Yeah!

No.

You know what's the most ironic part of all of this? Nebraska borders all the Dakota schools, and you have guys like Jake Dickert.

You have Kaelin DeBoer.

You have Jason Eck.

Because he's a Nebraska fan.

Yes.

South Dakota.

Yeah.

I remember, in fact, four years ago during the 1980 Republican Convention, and I jogged from my hotel over to Tiger Stadium just to get a look at the park.

You grew up in South Dakota as a fan, oddly enough, of Jackie Robinson and the Brooklyn

Dodgers.

Yeah, radio carried all the way to South Dakota in those days, and I affected that pigeon-toed stance, played second base, and there all the similarity ended.

He was a baseball player.

They described me, bad glove, but no hit.

Bill Gardner, the man who picked to replace Dick Green as he went into retirement and finally made it sick after retiring about five times before that.

He and his family have a very prosperous trucking business out in South Dakota.

Gardner takes the soft pitch high.

One ball, no strike.

In South Carolina, the Republican.

Lindsey Graham's sister in Nebraska the Republican in Colorado the Democrat in Kansas the Democrat in Iowa the Democrat in Delaware the Democrat in Minnesota the Democrat in Florida the Republican in Georgia the Democrat Virginia the Democrat Mississippi Republican Montana Republican North Carolina the Democrat Louisiana Republican New Jersey Democrats South Dakota Republican Arkansas Republican, Idaho Republican, Illinois Democrat, Tennessee Republican, Wyoming Republican, Alabama Republican, Kentucky Republican, West Virginia Republican, Oklahoma Republican, and New Mexico Democrat.

The astute political junkie will have noticed the betting markets went a remarkable 31 for 33, the only miss being South Carolina, where the late Lady Graham was predicted to be succeeded by his sister, another Lady Graham, but Sister Graham suffered an upset defeat to Democrat Annie Andrews.

And the other apparent miss of being Mississippi, although that race hasn't been called yet, and I'll mention that a little more in a bit.

Incumbent Republican Senator Roger Marshall lost 46% to 51%.

So in Kansas, voter ID was plus 28, while Republicans were negative 5.

In South Dakota, Amendment J passed 62% to 39%, and a Republican won the Senate race 61 to 40%.

Close, but voter ID in South Dakota was plus 23 to the Republicans being plus 21.

That's 4.9 points overage.

uh florida r plus 6.1 points was the average the actual result was 2.9 points for florida so that was a 3.2 point underage montana was eight points in the polling average actual result 10.6 points so that's 2.6 points that's within our margin as well so is florida for that matter and south dakota 10 points on average the actual result 21 points so that's 11 points off Mississippi had no average at all because no one polled there, apart from like one or two fly-by-nighters.

There wasn't enough for an average.

I think we could call that a miss.

Yeah, let's say four big misses.

Yep.

North Carolina, Georgia, Texas, and South Dakota is what I'm calling as big misses.

Yep.

Hey, I would like to drink some Joe Boo's rum.

I mean, I'm calling from Rapid City, South Dakota.

I was at Buffalo Wild Wings tonight, and there was tons of Husker fans there, and I think we all knew when we missed that field goal, it was over.

I just don't know what to do.

I love the team.

And I know you guys got lots of callers.

And hello from Rapid City, South Dakota.

And go Big Red.