South Dakota Special Election

[minionofmidas]

might as well have been a name recognition poll.  Dietrich just became the candidate a couple weeks ago.  He has been busy resigning his state senate seat and getting a campaign together.

Long time t go before june.  Only beginning.

I just read the article that went with that poll.
Apart from saying that she was well ahead in every region of the state save one (where she leads narrowly) and among both men and women, whites and Dakotas, Dems and Independents etc (and at 37% among Reps) it had name recognition figures as well.
And they prove your point.
Herseth 57% favorable opinion, 18% negative opinion, 25% neutral or don't know her name
Diedrich 26% favorable 14% unfavorable 60% neutral or don't know him.

[minionofmidas]

Herseth is taking 3 million from Emily's list.  HELLO!!

SD House has passed and SD Senate is sexpected to pass a law to OUTLAW abortion and set up a SCT battle to overturn abortion.  The law is very popular and will hiurt Herseth.

Plus unli,ke KY, SD will have its primary on the same day.  So as Long as GOP can turn out its base it should win.  Are Republicans going to vote for Dietrich ont he primary but not the special election, doubtful.

I think Herseth will win this one. She did very well against Janklow who at the time was extremely popular, plus Dems will have a high turnout since they'll be mad that Janklow got off with a slap on the wrist. Plus she's really attractive and should get a large portion of the young male vote.

That primary should help...
Normally, with this little name recognition against someone apparently this popular Dietrich should be toast. It's really ONLY because there's so many more Republicans in the state than Democrats and because of that primary on the same day that he still has a realistic fighting chance. It'll be an uphill battle for him though.