We do not even have to worry about a mountain of political ads on TV here either because no one gives money to Democrats except for outside groups or the DCCC and such. Consequently, the Republicans do not need to spend a lot on them either. The most common campaign tool is traveling town to town and sitting in coffee shops talking to people. In that environment, they see a phony right away.

The people in South Dakota are a very bed rock “work hard for an honest day’s pay” type of people. They do not believe in a “soak the rich” mentality since the vast majority are small business men or farmers, Lets face it, except for some lawyers there just are not any wealthy wall street people to demonize here. So that scare tactic falls flat every time its tried.

They even have the permitting paperwork going through the approval process and court challenges by the Sierra Club so they can build an oil refinery here.

One of the power utilities is working on a permit to build a nuclear power plant too. Nice part is there are no protests. There are plenty of community meetings addressing concerns, but no protests.

I do not know if anyone realizes it, but there is no state corporate income tax here either.

The state has facilitated a massive fiber optic network to be laid across the state as well. I live in a town with a population of 14,000 people and I have a 30 MB data connection on my computer!

Yes, South Dakota is open for business.