There’s one born every minute. Ah, those darned dishonest Republicans. There they go again, being all about that repeal thing, that thing they just know is never going to happen. Republicans may be split on many issues, but they remain fiercely united in their loathing for the Affordable Care Act; they still see it as […]

Late nonsense ads are costing Republicans huge bucks. As you watch Republicans and their billionaire allies rush late resources into states like South Dakota, Georgia, and North Carolina, keep this in mind: The problem with buying late: NRSC spending $830k for ~1k GRPs in Charlotte this week. DSCC bought early, same 1k GRPs cost just […]

Democratic candidate Rick Weiland has a real shot of winning the wide-open race. Whether or not you’re a fan of South Dakota having as much influence in the U.S. Senate as California, the unpredictability of the race to replace the retiring Sen. Tim Johnson has made it exciting—and national media like The New York Times […]

Hooray! We have something to be afraid of again! Nearly two-thirds of Americans are concerned about a widespread Ebola epidemic in the United States, despite repeated assurances from public officials that the country’s modern health-care and disease-surveillance systems will prevent the type of outbreak ravaging West Africa. Sure, “public officials” might be sure that Ebola […]

Screenshot from the Agenda Project’s ad. A new ad running in states with tight Senate races blasts Republicans for the budget cuts to the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and bio-disaster preparedness programs in hospitals. The ad cuts in testimony from government healthcare officials with dozens of clips of Republicans demanding […]

Georgia Republican David Perdue’s pride in his outsourcing career was screaming out for a campaign ad, and Democratic opponent Michelle Nunn has obliged. The ad is composed almost entirely of news coverage laying out the situation—and it’s damning enough on its own. Newscaster: David Perdue is defending his career amid an outsourcing report. Newscaster: David […]

There have been elections where the issues are murky, the decisions difficult, and the sides unclear. There have been elections where the ranks of Democrats and Republicans have so overlapped in their positions that you had to choose carefully among your options. This is not one of those elections. This is, quite easily, the simplest […]

Help us elect the real South Dakotan, this guy, Rick Weiland Via Mike Lux, let’s hop in the way-back machine to 1998, when ex-Sen. Larry Pressler was looking at all his options and thinking that his best bet was definitely not returning to South Dakota. No, he was ready to commit himself wholly to D.C. […]

Virginia Democrat John Foust is out with an ad hitting his opponent, Barbara Comstock, for just one of the ways she embodies the worst of the Republican party: having pushed three anti-union bills through the Virginia state legislature without disclosing that she was being paid by an anti-union organization for which those bills were priorities. […]