Handing off the abortion fight, Tuesday's landslide, new friends for Open Primaries, a Standing Rock music teacher & the virtue of printed records

As results for South Dakota’s Republican state legislative races began to come in Tuesday evening, the night felt like it had the makings to include at least a few pivotal upsets. In District 1, incumbent lawmaker Tamara St. John maintained a dwindling lead with her home county reporting fully, and down the road in Watertown, fellow House lawmaker Bryon Callies appeared to be in the fight of his young political life.

What previously was shaping up to be a quiet GOP convention in Pierre now has the makings of another inter-party fight. Three more candidates announced their intentions to run for positions up for grabs this weekend at the Republican Party’s biannual meeting, meaning that all three spots Saturday will now be contested.