Nationally, the 2012 general election was very encouraging to me. In general, voters came out against the crazy. Apparently, unfettered corporate money and tea-party rhetoric and Republican efforts at voter suppression in Ohio and Florida did not work: voters came out in large numbers on both sides and voted their conscience.
Unfortunately, in South Dakota it was more of the same, and nowhere this more obvious than in My Fair City, Robbinsdale. (Robbinsdale is my neighborhood in south-central Rapid City, SD.)
You just wonder why Robbinsdalians continue to knock down their own state rep's votes, while consistently returning them to Pierre to churn out more bad ones. Do they enjoy electing them just so they can slap the finished product around?
More beyond the orange crüller: