Vote Early, Vote Often -- Make South Dakota a Winner!

I try to live up to Kucinich-style idealism, but I'm not above stuffing the ballot box to help a South Dakotan win -- and neither should you be!

No, no, I'm not talking about orchestrating a campaign to get McCain to pick Thune for VP (though maybe Jon Lauck's old pals at SD Politics could pick up that ball and run with it? ;-) ). I'm talking about South Dakota's chance to win the People's Choice Award in the Smithsonian Photo Contest! South Dakota Magazine's Bernie Hunhoff grabbed a lovely shot of South Dakota boy Tjay Head playing ball outside his family's ceremonial tipis. That ball is a metaphor, I'm sure: rising up into the clear sky as the sun sets, catching the light above the shadows...

But you don't need to be an art critic to be a proud South Dakotan. Just get over to the Smithsonian photo contest website and vote. Tjay is in Photo #13, slide 3054*. Ballot stuffing is perfectly legal: Smithsonian says you can vote once a day every day until April 30.

What are you waiting for? Do it! Make Tjay and South Dakota #1!

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*Update: oops! see twu's comment below!