Kristi Noem lives on a ranch and hunts

The Republican has brought in added funds than any added abode challenger; Noem lives on a agronomical and hunts with a bow and arrow.

Kristi Noem has aloft $1.1 actor in the aftermost three months, added attack money than any added Republican abode challenger, ABC Account appear on Wednesday.

Noem has been labeled "South Dakota's Sarah Palin." She has three children, lives on a ranch, and hunts elk with a bow and arrow. She appears on horseback in her ads, and is active on an anti-government spending platform, which includes repealling the fresh bloom affliction law.

However, Noem told ABC account that she has not accepted the label, and does not appetite Palin advancement for her.

"We're activity advanced authoritative abiding we're focused on the bodies actuality at home," Noem said. "I appetite them to apperceive who I am and what I accept we should be accomplishing and should be accomplishing rather than absorption on somebody abroad from out of state."

As for abbreviation government spending, Noem says she's "a close accepter that South Dakotans apperceive more good what to do with their money than the government does."

Noem is arduous Rep. Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin (D-SD), and has aloft about alert as abundant cash. The added funds will appear in handy, as Herseth-Sandlin is actual accepted in South Dakota, acceptable with about 70 percent of the vote in 2008. Herseth-Sandlin is a bourgeois Democrat, and has criticized abundant of the Democratic agenda, as able-bodied as Admiral Barack Obama. When asked what brand she would accord the president, she told ABC account that she would accord Obama "C."

However, the Republicans are actual abundant in the advance this elections season. Noem has acicular out the Herseth-Sandlin "is voting with Nancy Pelosi 9 out of 10 times," and that a vote for Herset-Sandlin is a vote for Pelosi, ABC Account reported.

Noem afresh came beneath blaze for accepting 20 dispatch tickets and added cartage violations, as able-bodied as two warrants for her arrest for not actualization in court. Noem's best contempo dispatch admission was a aftereffect of active at 94 mph in January, and Herseth-Sandlin alleged the affair "a catechism of judgment."