North Dakota Politics

Well it turns out that Illinois has some work to do before it can carry the torch as the most politically corrupt state in the union. That dubious distinction goes to North Dakota.

Oh-yah-you-betcha, North Dakota.

A USA Today research study shows that, per capita, North Dakota seethes corruption at the highest level in the land.

Don Morrison, executive director of the non-partisan North Dakota Center for the Public Good, said it may be that North Dakotans are better at rooting out corruption when it occurs.

"Being a sparsely populated state, people know each other," he said with an entirely stright face. "We know our elected officials and so certainly to do what the governor of Illinois did is much more difficult here."

Now that's a smooth political response.

All for the public good, of course.