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• "I think there are a lot of Republicans who feel like if they get the nomination, they'll likely be favored to win," Schaff said." That's going to bring more people out to run for the office."
• Rick Weiland, a Sioux Falls restaurant owner who once served as a staffer for former U.S. Sen. Tom Daschle, is the lone Democratic candidate.
• Former Republican U.S. Sen. Larry Pressler, who served two terms in the House followed by three Senate terms from 1975 to 1997, is running as an independent.
• Johnson announced last March that he was retiring from the Senate seat he has held since 1996, when he beat Pressler in the general election.
• The Republican primary will be held on Tuesday, June 3.
• Rounds, 59, served as South Dakota's governor from 2003 to 2011 after spending 10 years in the state Senate. He is also chief executive of an insurance and real estate agency. Rounds says that as governor, he helped the state grow its economy while keeping taxes low.
• Nelson, 46, served in the U.S. Marines from 1985 to 1999 and was a special agent in the Naval Criminal Investigative Service from 1999 to 2008. The self-described semi-retired hobby farmer said he is the most conservative of the Republican candidates.
• Rhoden, 55, a rancher and custom welder from Union Center in sparsely populated western South Dakota, has been a longtime leader in the South Dakota Legislature. He's running on a platform to reduce taxes, cut spending and repeal the new health care law. He also opposes abortion and gay marriage.
• Ravnsborg, 37, is a major in the U.S. Army Reserves and has been deployed to Germany, Iraq and Afghanistan. He helped run a NATO military base in Afghanistan and says his military service has given him a solid foreign affairs background.
• Bosworth, 42, operates a Sioux Falls-based private practice called Meaningful Medicine and is new to politics. Bosworth said she wants to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law, reduce spending and fight government intrusion.
• Weiland, 55, is unopposed, so he's been able to spend his time traveling to hundreds of small towns across the state. He says he wants to fight for working families and against special interests. Rather than appeal the health care law, Weiland has proposed that citizens of any age be allowed to buy into Medicare, which now is generally open only to people 65 and older, as an alternative to private health insurance plans.
• Pressler, a 72-year-old Humboldt native and Rhodes scholar who now lectures at universities across the globe, describes himself as a "passionate centrist" or moderate conservative." He says he wants to return to Congress to fight partisan bickering

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