The most recent evidence of this trend is a national survey conducted and released by Abacus Data in October. When asked ...

Attention is already turning to 2026, when South Dakota will elect a new governor as well as hold races for U.S. Senate.

Exit polls are surveys of voters taken as they exit their polling place. The exit poll also includes interviews with early in-person voters and a telephone poll is conducted for absentee voters.

Has an adjustment been required to manage a generation who've grown up with a different mindset, different values - or, at the age of 53, has he simply mellowed? "A bit of both," he says.