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.
Posted this in the beginning of the liberation of Iraq, but I guess it applies here.
Good riddance to a Slimeball Deluxe!
Daschle losing is indeed very good news. Here in Washington State, the rats prefer to keep the dimmest bulb, Patty Osama Mama Murray in the Senate...... very sad.
Now the phony can go move into the trailor with his poor mother. GOOD RIDENCE!
Now the phony can go move into the trailor with his poor mother. GOOD RIDENCE!
Amen and amen. It truly is time for hardball. The people HAVE spoken.
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Another thing I've waited so long to write.
Well, in the words of Tom Daschle, I'm sure he's "saddened" by the fact that he lost to John Thune. But I guess it's time for the Furher to lead her party, King Feminazi Das Hillary Clinton .. I'm sure you'll hear the Kool Aide drinkers and and democRATs chanting ZIEG HEIL in her honor.
*Joke*
LOL!...Great Idea!!! ...send the packets to Liberal 'Rats & MSM types.
I think he's going to cry
I think Reid is going for minority leader.
Bye Tommy Dasshole BTTT
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