SD-Sen: Rounds announcing today

[RogueBeaver]

Here.

http://atr.rollcall.com/south-dakota-rounds-to-announce-senate-plans-on-thursday/

[Keystone Phil]

BAM

[Miles]

Like Rockefeller, Johnson's response seems pretty generic:

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[RogueBeaver]

Buzz among insiders is that he runs. If not the Dems will try and recruit SHS, but Rounds probably starts out the favorite IMO.

[sg0508]

A good friend of mine is the nephew of Mike Rounds.  He was popular as governor, although he waned a bit in the latter years.  He would probably be the favorite indeed, although keep in mind that SD tends to send (like ND) a lot of democrats to congress.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

MT, SD, AK, WV, and to get to 50 LA runoff or NC.

[Lief 🗽]

R +1

[CountryRoads]

YESS!

Rounds for U.S. Senate! (and Pro Life too!)

[tmthforu94]

MT, SD, AK, WV, and to get to 50 LA runoff or NC.

Don't forget Arkansas!

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

A good friend of mine is the nephew of Mike Rounds.  He was popular as governor, although he waned a bit in the latter years.  He would probably be the favorite indeed, although keep in mind that SD tends to send (like ND) a lot of democrats to congress.

Berg unlike Hoeven and Rounds wasn't a former governor and in midterm elections party id of the party in power drops too.

[Ogre Mage]

This seat will be very difficult to defend.  At this early stage it looks like the one we are most likely to lose.

[RogueBeaver]

This seat will be very difficult to defend.  At this early stage it looks like the one we are most likely to lose.

Plus WV.

[Ogre Mage]

This seat will be very difficult to defend.  At this early stage it looks like the one we are most likely to lose.

Plus WV.

Possibly, but Moore Capito is encountering some hauntingly familiar turbulence.  My guess is Rounds will not.

[sg0508]

Don't count your blessings in WV.  The GOP doesn't win statewide races there.

[CountryRoads]

Don't count your blessings in WV.  The GOP doesn't win statewide races there.

Oh, really? thanks captain obvious. What you neglect to mention is that the conservative movement actually has a good candidate here this time. Unless she get's primary or has a scandal, she has a chance.

[Miles]

Don't count your blessings in WV.  The GOP doesn't win statewide races there.

The GOP actually just won their first statewide race there this year. Patrick Morrisey knocked off Darrell McGraw, albeit by a narrow 51/49.

[tmthforu94]

Don't count your blessings in WV.  The GOP doesn't win statewide races there.

West Virginia is entering into a new era of politics, so I wouldn't make too many assumptions there based on past results.

[CountryRoads]

Don't count your blessings in WV.  The GOP doesn't win statewide races there.

The GOP actually just won their first statewide race there this year. Patrick Morrisey knocked off Darrell McGraw, albeit by a narrow 51/49.

yea. Im excited to see him take office. Prob my favorite WV republican atm.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I think them going early may be a part of a strategy on the part of the NRSC. Get them out there and on the road as quickly as possible. But it only works if they are working their tails off at every opportunity and successfully build a real base of support strong enoguh to win i nthat lengthened time on the road, lest they end up like Bruning, who had announced by this point in 2010.

[RogueBeaver]

Overall I'm encouraged about this Senate cycle partly because there's basically (some grumbling about WV aside) a consensus on the nominees for winnable seats. Top nominees against entrenched Dem incumbents announcing even before the '12 cycle was up...

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I was saying the same thing about Bruning in 2010. Who could possibly want to primary him, he was going to primary Johanns for heaven's sake, until they made a gentlemen's agreement most likely in exchange for each others support in their respective different Senate races? Now we have Senator Deb Fischer (R-NE).

[freepcrusher]

i don't get why everyone is saying that Johnson is a weak incumbent. Yes, my gut feeling says he'd probably lose if he faces Rounds but don't forget that he's been a fixture in statewide politics since 1986 first as the at large member and then as a senator. He unseated a republican incumbent while Dole was carrying the state and he also fended off a tough challenge from Thune in 02. Even though it was six years ago, I would think there would be some sympathy for him after the stroke as he's still in a wheelchair.

I'd like to believe that Rounds is the only republican who can defeat Johnson and Johnson is the only democrat who could give Rounds a race.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

For some reason Noem is refusing to rule out a run