South Dakota

Outlook: Solid Republican

3 Electoral Votes (3 in 2000)
Bush won in 2004 by 21.47%

The Mount Rushmore State’s citizens are considered to be pretty sharp politically, electing whoever will represent them best in Washington. This explains the split congressional delegation of one Democratic senator and at-large congresswoman with a Republican senator. Statewide politics are in Republican hands; so are the state’s three electoral votes every four years—South Dakota last went Democratic in LBJ’s 1964 landslide victory and George W. Bush won by more than 20 points in both 2000 and 2004.