Posted on 10/19/2004 11:35:20 AM PDT by Kurt Evans
>Was this the final debate?
This was the final question of the final debate.
I watched the debate on Cspan2 and Thune tore Daschle a new butt.
I wish he had asked Daschle why: the Dems want separation of church and state, but they run wide open to black churches when they are out trying to buy votes?
Excellent!
Right between the eyes.
PLEASE, South Dakotans, take this burden from us and elect Thune!
>May I ask ... How did you think the overall "debate"
>impressed the voters.... How is the sentiment for
>Thune running, in order to replace the Puff-ster??
Any sane person who saw this debate was influenced toward Thune, which wouldn't have been enough in 2002 because the media successfully cast the race as one decent, honest man against another. The Thune campaign is obviously not going to let that happen this year, so Daschle's friends in the press have taken more drastic measures to demonize state and national Republican leaders.
Thune's supporters seem to have the edge over Daschle's in terms of passion, but based on the polling data I've seen, I'd guess that Daschle is probably still up by a couple of points right now.
>Thune was superb. He looked younger, more vigorous,
>fresh..His best line, IMHO, when talking about the
>prescription drug plan, he said that daschle voted
>against it, but ALL the Dem senators from the nearby
>states..Dorgan, et al..voted FOR it...
That was a good line, but I'm not sure it was the best. Daschle kept talking about how he'd done more in the last six weeks than Thune did in six years in Congress. Thune quoted a Republican Senator who acknowledged Daschle's cooperativeness by saying, "Maybe if South Dakota had an election every month we'd be able to get something done up here."
Thune then suggested Daschle's newfound spirit of bipartisanship was due to the fact that he was "running for his life" back home and called it a "deathbed conversion"...
>I was also impressed with the questions. They came from
>SDak voters who sent them in..far better than Schieffer
>and Ifil..
Also far better than the attack questions posed by the Argus Misleader's David Kranz in a debate Sunday night.
Kranz is the single most powerful political journalist in the state, and he's a close personal friend of Daschle. His lies more than accounted for Thune's margin of defeat in 2002. For over a year he told South Dakotans we had to re-elect Tim Johnson so Daschle would be majority leader rather than minority leader. That promise didn't quite pan out.
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