Democrats win House seat in South Dakota

Democrat Stephanie Herseth is going to the House of Representatives for South Dakota after narrowly defeating her Republican rival by 3,000 votes. The seat was vacated when Republican Rep. Bill Janlow resigned after being convicted of vehicular manslaughter.

I was impressed by Herseth's performance in a debate aired on C-SPAN last week. I can also verify that she's a natural leader -- she attended the South Dakota Girls State with a co-worker friend and managed to be elected governor there. Girls State, for those who don't know (and I didn't), is a kind of Model U.N. organization with the goal of producing leaders who happen to be women. Novel idea, isn't it?