Drinking Liberally Sioux Falls had some insight on the South Dakota Democrat Party’s outlook for the 2018 elections in terms of how they intend to bring Democrats home to vote. Hint: They’re not:
Democrats continue to lose the Voter Registration battle to Republicans. According to the South Dakota Secretary of State’s website, Democrats lost another 449 registered voters in February while Republican registration increased by 325 voters. In all the Republican advantage over Democrats increased by 774 voters in February. Overall, it now stands at 87,112 voters or, to put it another way, by an average of 2889 voters in each of South Dakota’s 35 Legislative Districts. That is a big deficit for a Candidate to overcome and a big hole the SDDP needs to climb out of.
A year ago the South Dakota Democratic Party (SDDP) announced a big voter registration drive. It even got a $10,000.00 grant from the DNC to conduct registration drives on Indian Reservations. The SDDP doesn’t have much to show for its effort. Since last April Democratic voter registration statewide has dropped by 11,360 voters, from 169,688 to 158,328 or 6.7%. I encourage the SDDP to rethink what they are doing. I don’t know what it is but it obviously is not working.
I need a drink.
So, for every dollar their received from the Democrat National Committee for voter registration, they lost 1.136 voters?
Ann Tornberg – you just keep on keeping on. And while you’re working on voter registration, keep teaching Democrats how to win elections.
This is the South Dakota Democrat party I know!
Wasting money, no results, no ideas…
Hey come to think of it they are just like the national Democrat party!
I think part of the Dems problems are that they have moved so far left that they essentially turned off moderate Dems, which I believe the majority of SD voters are more like.
Springer that is about right. Billie Sutton and Tim Bjorkman along with a few remaining moderates are getting more scarce.
Which means they can win then, right?
Not necessarily
https://votesmart.org/candidate/evaluations/121208/billie-sutton#.Wpr_iOjwaUk
Nope. People are smart enough to know they’d bow to the altar of the far left.
Also, the SD republican party has given up any semblance of conservatism, making those up to and including the Bernie wing of the democratic party welcome as RINOs under our “big tent”. Why run and lose as a democrat when you can accomplish the same socialist agenda with an R behind your name?
Liberalism, socialism, communism, radicalism, fascism, hedonism, immoralism, mentalism, absolutism , adsurdism, agnosticism, polytheism, somatism, atheism, collectivism, fatalism, are just a few negatives associated with the National Democratic Party affecting common associations by South Dakotans.
Things will get worse before they get better for them.
goofyism, extremism, elitism, the way they are going it won’t be long and they will just have enough member to share a breakfast table at Perkins with the Constitutional, Libertarian and Nelsonian party members.
How wonderful it would be for you if your worldview was anything close to accurate. Those libertarian populists who appreciate Stace Nelson are exactly who elected Trump, along with a crossover blue collar surge from the loony-toon DNC who’ve been promised moonbeams and rainbows for decades and have had their livelihoods sold at auction by globalist bastards from both parties. The majority of South Dakota Republicans hate the establishment that controls both Pierre and DC to the same degree. Perhaps fantasy football would be more your speed, since political raconteourism seems a bit beyond your grasp.
Shad, don’t you have some overly long and rambling press release to write for Neal?
nelsonian lol
Can we get Tornberg a job with Chuckles Schumer? Maybe she can sink his political ship! Wouldn’t it be nice if that Rufus was gone?
Imagine how many votes they would have lost without the $10,000 voter registration drive. If they’d just put the drunk guy from drinking liberally in charge they could turn it around for sure.
Pat, I need to correct a misprint I made in my original post. The per-district calculation should show a Democratic Party deficit of 2489 voters per district, not 2889 as I wrote. The Democrat’s disadvantage against Republicans is still really, really bad (far larger than at any time on the Secretary of State’s website which goes back to 1968). It just isn’t as really, really bad as my misprint would suggest. I apologize for the error.
Anonymous 11:10 a.m.,
Stace says he is a conservative. You say he is a libertarian. Which is it?
Not only is conservative and libertarian not the same thing, libertarian and populist is an oxymoron. Putting them in one head would make one crazy.
Just because you lump together two words that sound good doesn’t mean it isn’t nonsensical.
Troy,
I would say Stace is neither a conservative nor a libertarian…Stace is for Stace and his ego.
He shouts and makes the biggest fuss and claims to be the only true conservative, but no conservative I know acts like him. Pushing bills that waste time and make the legislature look like fools, without any meaningful accomplishments. I have never heard so many people shake their head and wonder what is wrong in the legislature with the CHISLIC bill.
Then anyone who doesn’t want to follow his crazy antics is a RINO…no many of us conservatives are tired of him shredding the conservative brand and making people think that he is the face of conservatives, URGH
2cents,
That is the irony. Stace, his supporters, and his opponents can’t even agree on a description.
Well Stace CLAIMS to be a conservative, but as we know just because Stace says it, doe snot make it so.
Oh I think his opponents can agree on a description 🙂
J@ck@ss if you are conservative or a moderate Republican