Republicans Gaining Momentum In South Dakota
Time For A Change
By California Yankee Posted in 2008 — Comments (2) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
South Dakota Senator Tim Johnson has recovered enough from his brain surgery that he is planning to return to South Dakota at the end of this month. The Democrat hopes to be back on the floor of the U.S. Senate sometime in September.
We continue to wish Johnson well, but his Senate seat will be up for grabs in the '08 election and it's time for a change. Johnson won reelection in 2002 by just 524 votes and was a Republican target even before he became ill. Johnson hasn't indicated whether he will run for reelection. Nevertheless, Senate colleagues have raised $1.3 million for his reelection campaign.
So it is good to see two Republican candidates, State Representative Joel Dykstra and Sam Kephart, a self-employed Republican business man gaining momentum in the race for Johnson's Senate seat:
“It’s important that Republicans have a candidate that can articulate the views and the principals in which Republicans have based their politics,” says Dykstra.[. . .]
“This is about a larger issue. The problems that I'm talking about happened before Senator Johnson was elected and he’s now had two terms to deal with it,” says Kephart.
To have a chance, Dykstra and Kephart have to keep working the grassroots regardless of what Johnson does.
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Republicans Gaining Momentum In South Dakota 2 Comments (0 topical, 2 editorial, 0 hidden) Post a comment »
Its awful tough to attack a retarded guy, even if its justified.
turn out to be a big advantage. It brings out a sympathy vote, along people voting because they like a good story of trying again.