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Question: Since the VRA of 1965, who is the best Senator to come from South Dakota
#1
Karl E. Mundt (1948-1973)		  
#2
George McGovern (1963-1981)		  
#3
James Abourezk (1973-1979)		  
#4
Larry Pressler (1979-1997)		  
#5
James Abdnor (1981-1987)		  
#6
Tom Daschle (1987-2005)		  
#7
Tim Johnson (1997-2015)		  
#8
John Thune (2005-Present)		  
#9
Mike Rounds (2015-Present)		  
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Total Voters: 40

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Mr. Smith
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« on: June 10, 2015, 10:38:33 AM »
« edited: June 10, 2015, 04:58:10 PM by L.D. Smith, Bay Area Conservadem »
And here's South Dakota.

Past Atlas Votes
Alabama: Howell Heflin (27.9%)
Alaska: Mike Gravel (44.6%)
Arizona: Barry Goldwater (46.9%)
Arkansas: Dale Bumpers (28.6%)
California: Pete Wilson (28.9%)
Colorado: Mark Udall & Ben Nighthorse Campbell (25.5%)
Connecticut: Chris Murphy (28.9%)
Delaware: Joe Biden (63%)
Florida: Bob Graham (23.8%)
Georgia: Sam Nunn & Max Cleland (32.6%)
Hawaii: Hiram Fong (43.2%)
Idaho: Frank Church (68.6%)
Illinois: Paul M. Simon (26.8%)
Indiana: Richard Lugar (35.4%)
Iowa: Tom Harkin (48.9%)
Kansas: Bob Dole (48.8%)
Kentucky: Rand Paul (39.7%)
Louisiana: Russell Long (39.6%)
Maine: Ed Muskie (41.2%)
Maryland: Barbara Mikulski (52.6%)
Massachusetts: Ted Kennedy (31.8%)
Michigan: Carl Levin (52.2%)
Minnesota: Paul Wellstone (34.6%)
Mississippi: Thad Cochran (51.3%)
Missouri: John Danforth (35.9%)
Montana: Mike Mansfield (55.9%)
Nebraska: Chuck Hagel (43.3%)
Nevada: Harry Reid (50%)
New Hampshire: Jeanne Shaheen (30.2%)
New Jersey: Bill Bradley (36.4%)
New Mexico: Pete Domenici (27.3%)
New York: Robert F. Kennedy (31.3%)
North Carolina: Terry Sanford (43.2%)
North Dakota: Byron Dorgan (34.6%)
Ohio: Sherrod Brown and George Voinovich (21.6%)
Oklahoma: Fred Harris (38.2%)
Oregon: Wayne Morse (32.4%)
Pennsylvania: Arlen Specter (22.2%)
Rhode Island: John Chafee (40%)
South Carolina: Ernest Hollings (50%)
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« Reply #1 on: June 10, 2015, 12:01:37 PM »
Thune, but Abdnor and Rounds are good too.
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« Reply #2 on: June 10, 2015, 12:10:43 PM »
I went with McGovern, with Abourezk in a close second.

Pressler's easily the best of the GOP lot.
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« Reply #3 on: June 10, 2015, 01:03:57 PM »
McGovern, hands down.
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« Reply #4 on: June 10, 2015, 01:08:28 PM »

This, Daschle was second.
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« Reply #5 on: June 10, 2015, 01:10:48 PM »
McGovern was great.
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« Reply #6 on: June 10, 2015, 02:38:46 PM »
This is tough... Larry Pressler was a deeply principled man who deserves praise and obviously McGovern and Daschle will be popular with Democrats and rightly so... But I am actually going to go with Abourezk for  spearheading various Native-American issues as well as great foreign policy stances and support for direct democracy. He isn't as well known and just doesn't get the praise he deserves.
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« Reply #7 on: June 10, 2015, 02:45:14 PM »
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« Reply #8 on: June 10, 2015, 03:17:39 PM »
McGovern
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« Reply #9 on: June 10, 2015, 04:01:42 PM »
Thune.
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« Reply #11 on: June 10, 2015, 06:45:16 PM »
Thune, then Pressler.
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« Reply #12 on: June 11, 2015, 12:07:06 PM »
Larry Pressler.
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