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Former South Dakota Sen. Tom Daschle said Monday there is no chance Barack Obama will pick him as a running mate. The former Senate majority leader and close adviser to the Democratic presidential candidate has turned over personal information the campaign is using to review potential vice presidential nominees. But Daschle said he is confident he is not Obama's choice. "I did give (them) ...
Former South Dakota Sen. Tom Daschle said Monday there is no chance Barack Obama will pick him as a running mate. The former Senate majority leader and close adviser to the Democratic presidential candidate has turned over personal information the campaign is using to review potential vice presidential nominees. But Daschle said he is confident he is not Obama's choice. "I did give (them) ...
Libertarian Party presidential candidate Bob Barr has qualified for ballot status in South Dakota for the November election. The campaign submitted 4,256 signatures -- 900 more than required by law -- earning a spot on the ballot in this year's presidential election.
A state Democratic Party official said Wednesday that it would be a violation of the spirit -- and possibly the letter -- of the law for the state to allow Rep. Jim Bradford to switch parties and run for the South Dakota Senate from District 27 after losing to Democratic incumbent Sen. Theresa Two Bulls in the June primary.
When word of Jim Bradford's defection from the South Dakota Democratic Party to the Republican Party came in Tuesday, many in the newsroom were surprised.
If at first you don't succeed, switch parties. That's the path state Rep. Jim Bradford is taking as the Democrat announced Tuesday he is changing parties to take on incumbent state Sen. Theresa Two Bulls in the November general election for a South Dakota Senate seat in District 27.
The Vermillion City Council will hold its regular meeting at 7 p.m. Monday, Aug. 4, in the Al Neuharth Media Center on The University of South Dakota campus.
The South Dakota Campaign for Healthy Families today will launch its effort against this fall’s ballot measure to restrict abortions in the state.
Abortion rights supporters launched a national campaign to defeat a proposed South Dakota abortion ban.
WASHINGTON - A measure on the Nov. 4 ballot in South Dakota effectively would ban all abortions and is no better than a similar measure voters defeated two years ago, abortion rights supporters said Tuesday. National abortion rights groups joined members of the South Dakota Campaign for Healthy Families at a news conference Tuesday to condemn Initiative Measure 11. As it did two years ago, ...
RAPID CITY, S.D. — Republican presidential candidate John McCain hopes to enhance his appeal to blue-collar voters and those in the Northern Plains by visiting a giant motorcycle rally in South Dakota.
