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Tom Daschle to Test Waters for 2008 Run
NewsMax ^ | 18 May 2006

Posted on 05/17/2006 6:35:30 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher

Former Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle will gauge potential support for a 2008 presidential bid with stops in Iowa, New Hampshire and Michigan next month.

Daschle, the three-term South Dakota senator who lost a re-election bid in 2004, said Wednesday that the trip is a logical progression as he weighs a White House run.

"It's just taking the next step to a more thoughtful consideration of a presidential campaign," Daschle said in an interview with The Associated Press.

Iowa and New Hampshire are the traditional early voting states and numerous potential candidates have visited there in recent months. Michigan could be one of two states shoehorned in between Iowa and New Hampshire if the Democratic Party decides to change its primary calendar.

Daschle said he will be traveling to states to "sound out presidential themes, talk to voters and get a sense of what kind of a reception I might be getting." He also will be campaigning for local candidates.

Republican John Thune defeated Daschle, then the Senate Minority leader, two years ago. Since that loss, Daschle, a fellow at the liberal think tank Center for American Progress, started a political action committee to support Democratic candidates and has criticized President Bush on the Iraq war and other issues.

Daschle said he believes New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is the current Democratic front-runner.

"She's in a class by herself," he said. "In many cases she's like an incumbent. But I've learned after all these years in politics that what looks like a certainty one day could be a complete turnabout the next."

Daschle, 58, said he would decide by the end of this year, maybe sooner, if he will run for president.


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; daschle2008; dopeydems; runplease; smallchance; tomdaschle
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To: Clintonfatigued
Is he serious or is he positioning himself as Hillary Clinton's running mate?

The "PICK ME, Hillary!" Vice Presidential auditions have officially begun. Tiny Tom does have the inside track because he is non threatening and small enough to fit in her thighness's lap.

41 posted on 05/17/2006 7:32:41 PM PDT by metalurgist (Believe in my God or I will kill you! The cry of all religious extremists.)
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To: Aussie Dasher
Daschle said he will be traveling to states to "sound out presidential themes, talk to voters and get a sense of what kind of a reception I might be getting."

I can save little Tommy a few bucks and some pointless travelling...

42 posted on 05/17/2006 7:38:21 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Aussie Dasher
Read your mini bio. So most Aussies still like the US? Glad to hear it (and we definitely like AU), but one would never know it based on encounters with virulently anti-American Aussie chatters in various chat rooms. But Canadian leftists sre worse.
43 posted on 05/17/2006 7:39:35 PM PDT by luvbach1 (More true now than ever: Near the belly of the beast in San Diego)
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To: Fido969
It does raise one's hopes when one one contemplates the "sterling" field from which the Demonrat presidential candidate will be chosen.
44 posted on 05/17/2006 7:41:32 PM PDT by luvbach1 (More true now than ever: Near the belly of the beast in San Diego)
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To: Aussie Dasher

I'll be completely supportive of Tom's run for the WH.


45 posted on 05/17/2006 7:55:44 PM PDT by AZRepublican ("The degree in which a measure is necessary can never be a test of the legal right to adopt it.")
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To: Aussie Dasher

If you're a failure in the Senate, what else can you do?


46 posted on 05/17/2006 8:02:09 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Aussie Dasher

Please don't run, Daschele! Please! Purty Please! (caution: reverse psychology being tested here .)


47 posted on 05/17/2006 8:13:47 PM PDT by F.J. Mitchell (A government that will not enforce the laws of the land, is a government standing on quicksand.)
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To: Kenny Bunkport

The waters of the sewer are already more pee than anything else.


48 posted on 05/17/2006 8:15:24 PM PDT by F.J. Mitchell (A government that will not enforce the laws of the land, is a government standing on quicksand.)
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To: ErieGeno
LOL! "Carter II-the sequel."
49 posted on 05/17/2006 8:17:46 PM PDT by F.J. Mitchell (A government that will not enforce the laws of the land, is a government standing on quicksand.)
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To: Aussie Dasher

PUFF!!!!


50 posted on 05/17/2006 8:24:59 PM PDT by CheyennePress
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To: Seadog Bytes

LOLOL!! That's too funny! Thanks for the ping! I just can't get excited about such a little squirt being my president. :o)


51 posted on 05/17/2006 8:28:26 PM PDT by NRA2BFree (Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" Ronald Reagan, 1987 - President Bush build that wall, NOW! 2006!)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

What are you talking about? he might be able to bring home SD's crucial 3 electoral votes...


52 posted on 05/17/2006 8:32:18 PM PDT by Kozak (Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
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To: RedBeaconNY
Not a chance.

I dunno. SD may be a little too conservative for Dashole but the country as a whole isn't. His odds improve if he successfully fights his way to get the Dem nomination. (Shudder!)

53 posted on 05/17/2006 8:42:39 PM PDT by mafree
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To: Kenny Bunkport
Where are the waters that he's testing. I'd like to pee in it.

Perhaps we can all pitch in to build him a small armada.

54 posted on 05/17/2006 8:45:58 PM PDT by Fruitbat
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To: Kozak
"What are you talking about? he might be able to bring home SD's crucial 3 electoral votes..."

SD is not even a remotely "swing" state in Presidential elections. Not even McGovern carried the state he won 3 Senate contests in. Edwards didn't help carry NC in '04, and Gore didn't carry my state of TN in '00 (and barely helped in '92 or '96 where Perot deprived the Bush I and Dole the majority).

55 posted on 05/17/2006 8:59:13 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Cheney X -- Destroying the Liberal Democrat Traitors By Any Means Necessary -- Ya Dig ? Sho 'Nuff.)
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To: Kozak

Unless you were making a joke, in which case I smack my head with a "D'oh !" :-P


56 posted on 05/17/2006 9:00:31 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Cheney X -- Destroying the Liberal Democrat Traitors By Any Means Necessary -- Ya Dig ? Sho 'Nuff.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

It was a joke. Like the thought of Tom Daschle running for POTUS.


57 posted on 05/17/2006 9:01:01 PM PDT by Kozak (Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
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To: Seadog Bytes

Little Tommy is testing the waters?

He's better wear an inflatable tube or he'll be submerged......LOL


58 posted on 05/17/2006 9:05:48 PM PDT by JulieRNR21 (Katherine Harris is 'In It to Win It' .....Go here: http://www.electharris.org/)
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To: luvbach1

Have you been following John Howard's trip to the US? Dubya laid it on a treat in DC!

The majority of Aussies regard the US as our best friend and Americans are always made welcome when visiting.


59 posted on 05/17/2006 9:07:26 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher (The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
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To: Kozak

Actually when you said "crucial 3 electoral votes" I was reminded how close some of the recent elections have been...


60 posted on 05/17/2006 9:15:28 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Cheney X -- Destroying the Liberal Democrat Traitors By Any Means Necessary -- Ya Dig ? Sho 'Nuff.)
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