Posted on 11/03/2004 6:07:19 AM PST by I got the rope
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Congress's top Democrat, Tom Daschle, lost his bid to be reelected to the Senate, US networks reported, capping a night of defeats his party, which also failed to win control of either chamber of the US legislature.
Daschle, arguably the most powerful Democrat in the US Congress, lost the Senate's most closely-watched election in a 51 percent to 49 percent squeaker to Republican challenger John Thune, a former member of the House of Representatives.
In failing to hold on to the seat he first won in 1986, Daschle becomes the first Senate leader to lose reelection in more than half a century. Daschle was seeking his fourth term in the Senate.
Two years ago, Thune narrowly lost his challenge to the state's other Democratic senator, Tim Johnson.
Although a long-time South Dakota incumbent and the state's top politician, Daschle faced a tough race as a Democrat in an overwhelmingly Republican state.
GOP leaders in the US Senate made beating Daschle a priority and tapped the telegenic Thune, a former basketball star from the hamlet of Murdo, as their standard bearer.
Daschle won his last Senate race in 1998 race with 62 percent of the vote, but he was seen as more vulnerable after his flirtation with a presidential run this year alienated voters in his state.
Thune also succeeded in portraying him as a Washington DC liberal more likely to espouse a far left wing agenda in the Senate than the traditional bedrock heartland values that South Dakotans cherish.
Daschle and Thune spent more than 40 million dollars in what has become the Senate's most expensive and bitterly-contested race.
NO POWER SHARING...NO BIPARTISAN COMMITTEES....NO RAT CHAIRMAN ON ANY COMMITTEES.
IT IS TIME TO DROP THE HAMMER FOLKS!!!
NO QUARTER!!!
Personally, I'm not shocked and am deeply gladdened.
Too bad. So Sad.
hehehehe
Good riddance Dash-hole. Don't let the door hit your slimey butt on the way out. The residents of South Dakota will not be deeply saddened.
gloaty-bump
AGREE - 100% - TIME FOR THE CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS TO DO WHAT THEY ALSO PROMISED. LESS GOVERMENT,LOWER TAXES, LESS REGULATION, EXPLORE OIL IN ALSKA. IF THEU DON'T, THEY WILL START LOSING SUPPORTERS LIKE ME.
President George Bush
It couldn't happen to a better guy. Good riddance.
Tom who?
This is what we in the South call - GRAVY!!!!!
Hee, hee. Oh, Tommy, you're such a loser.
I just posted this very same reply on the Zogby thread. I have a feeling that this is going to come in handy all day today.
Here goes ...
< Nelson Muntz> HA-ha! < /Nelson Muntz>
Maybe I should just make it my tagline ...
Even my bones are giggling!
Payback's a hillary, eh?
TDIDS (I may have to retire that one now--heh, heh!)
Had he won this race, we woulda been glad, I'm sure...but not near as tickled as we are now!
The Lord works in mysterious ways! LOL
All God's children singing Glory Glory!
This has been the one ray of happiness that I have seen in the past 24 hours regarding the election. I would love to be the one to slam the door on this guy when he walks out of the Senate building.
Oh, to be a little mouse in Dasshole's senate office this morning....hehehe
Has he conceded? Or is he suing?
Dan
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