In retrospect, aren't you glad that Thune got the opportunity to run again this year!
No more Daschle for the Dems. It is almost as sweet as Bush winning.
OK, sure, better to knock off the execrable Daschle than the mannikin-like Johnson. But I wouldn't have traded the 2002 loss for the mere possibility of this 2004 win. (Partly because I don't know whom else the GOP in SD had, besides then-he'd-be-a-Senator-already John Thune, to run against Daschle.)