A new poll is out tonight from a group called Quantus Insights which comes on top of the poll recently released by Public Opinion Strategies showing Rounds up by 17%.
Quantus Insights notes that in a poll conducted in Mid-October..
Rounds is trouncing independent candidate Brian Bengs 57% to 36% in the deep-red state, according to a new poll conducted in mid-October by Quantus Insights.
That’s a larger lead for Rounds than many surveys have previously shown; some surveys even showed Bengs with a slight lead.
In slides linked to the story..
Rounds leads by 21 Mike Rounds takes 57.2 percent to Brian Bengs’s 36.5, a 20.7-point lead, with 4.6 percent undecided and 1.7 percent naming someone else. The margin on a difference between the two is about ±8.2, so the lead is decisive at the full-sample level.
The 29 undecided voters break 48 Rounds, 18 Bengs; 34 percent stay undecided. With leaners allocated the ballot is 59.4 to 37.3, Rounds +22.1, with 1.6 percent still undecided.
and..
90.6 percent of voters who picked a candidate say their mind is made up; 7.0 percent could change it. Republicans are the firmest at 95 percent, independents the softest at 80.
At this point, they’re calling for Rounds as “A SETTLED RACE.”
Figuratively, you can stick a fork in the Bengs campaign at this point.
Because that baked potato is done.
Sad so many South Dakotans, especially farmers, will vote directly against their own economic self interest and for a candidate and a party that has so screwed them with tariffs, Argentinian beef and sky rocketing fuel costs due to a war of choice. Some day rural America will realize that they are Charlie Brown and that Republicans are Lucy, repeatedly pulling the ball away.
In a vacuum maybe, but pretending Brian Bengs is the answer to rural Americans problems is laughable.
He would be better than the current option. The fact remains that Trump destroyed their markets and increased their costs with likely no good outcome from it. 8 billion in socialism to millionaire landowners because he had to go start a war in the middle east. Debt is through the roof. Prices are through the roof. Yeah, doing the same thing as we have been is really the answer. Watching republicans destroy our economy while enriching the wealthy at the expense of the working class while a conman drives us off a cliff. Laughable is right. It’s laughable how you are justifying this train wreck.
Not as laughable as your political career Mr. 15%
Yeah, not even worth voting at this point, I’m going to stay home
A vote for any Republican congress candidate is a vote that goes straight into Trump’s back pocket. I’m a 2016 Trump voter who switched to Biden in 2020 like millions of others, when Trumps destructive effect on the traditional Republican Party became evident. All that the 2021 insurrection and 2024 primary showed me is that Trump had fully destroyed the party, and made into a trough for his own power and enrichment.
But hey, keep the “party” fantasy alive and keep voting for Rounds. I early voted for Bengs on day one of early voting and I don’t regret it at all. Rounds will be no good at doing what is needed to pry the US from Trump and rebuild the parties if the people to re-establish OUR rights.