No off-year in South Dakota Politics

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Saturday March 26, 2005 · 10:34 PM PST

2005/03/26 · 22:34

[I've been reading dkos since it came on-line and comment occasionally, but this is my first diary entry.]

Since 2003 I've been watching with interest the radid development of the South Dakota blogosphere. It's kind of interesting how intense the politics is up there all the time when south of Valentine, Sioux City and the Missouri River things quiet down quite a bit in off years.

Anyway, my neighbors to the north has what one might called a fairly well developed blogosphere. The intense contest between Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle and Republican wunderkind John Thune in 2004 no doubt played a significant role in the rapid maturation of this medium among South Dakota's political observers. Daschle's defeat left a number of talented political professionals with time on their hands, some of who started their own political weblogs. Read More

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