AP calls the election for Rounds.

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The Associated Press says that the foil around the potato we all call Billion helped it to cook faster. Stick a fork in him, the AP says he's done:
AP calls governor’s election for Rounds
By Joe Kafka, Associated Press Writer

PIERRE -- Popular Republican Gov. Mike Rounds won re-election Tuesday to a second four-year term, pulling far ahead of Democratic challenger Jack Billion in unofficial early election returns.

Rounds had 64 percent of the early vote, and Billion had 34 percent with 2 percent of all precincts tallied.

Billion, a retired surgeon, had hoped to become the state's first Democratic governor since 1979.

Inez Grenz, 62, a retired nursing home dietitian from Eureka, said she voted to re-elect Republican Gov. Mike Rounds. "There was no doubt in my mind. He's a very good governor."

"Billion didn't impress me," Grenz said.


Read it all here at the Rapid City Journal

Comments

Anonymous said…
PP,

"Stick a fork in him, the AP says he's done and Billion is the victor"

Billion is the victor?
9:46 PM
PP said…
Doh. Damn laptop.
9:53 PM
Anonymous said…
lol @ pp
10:25 PM
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