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...What is vexing is the disparity between the amount of money spent on education and the results obtained," he said, citing a recent survey that lists Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota and Minnesota as states with the highest SAT scores and some of the lowest education expenditures per student...
...Commerce Committee when the Republicans took over Congress, giving him bragging rights to this year's landmark telecommunications law and helping him raise as much as $5 million for his re-election bid. And he is running in a state where registered Republicans outnumber Democrats 49% to 41%. South Dakota hasn't given its three electoral votes to a Democrat since Lyndon Johnson...
...Pressler fever is not exactly burning up the prairies. Despite his lofty education, Pressler has long had a reputation in Washington as an intellectual lightweight, a rap that is by now well known to the voters back home. And critics in South Dakota say their senior Senator, after 18 years of cozying up to lobbyists, has "gone Washington." Six years ago, he scraped by with a 19,000-vote victory against an underfunded Democrat...
...campaign has had its share of ideological fingerpointing--Pressler calling Johnson too liberal for South Dakota, Johnson calling Pressler a Medicare-slashing friend of Newt Gingrich's--but its defining issue appears to be the flap over Washington Babylon, a thinly documented book that accuses Pressler of marrying in 1982 amid speculation that he was gay and of being seen at a "louche rendezvous" in Washington. Pressler, who has blanketed the state with ads attacking the "despicable" charges without stating specifically what they are, blames Johnson and his allies for bringing one of the book's co-authors, columnist Alexander...
...costs $500 (in contrast to $60,000 in Los Angeles). Both sides are gearing up for another roll in the mud, Pressler with a new round of ads attacking Johnson for the Washington Babylon rumors, Johnson with charges about Pressler's use of campaign funds for personal expenditures. South Dakota voters hoping for a probing debate of the issues may be disappointed, but fans of high-level political intrigue are likely to stay tuned...