What do you make of Thune's press release?
Sounds to me like he is ready to concede. Thanks.
He is giving the other side nothing to attack him on, at this time. He may have felt like a vitriolic outburst, but he kept himself in check -- the exact opposite of Nixon's outburst when he lost the race for Governor of California in 1960, "You won't have Richard Nixon to kick around any more."
Either Thune's a sharp cookie, or he has excellent advisors, or probably both. He's playing this electoral violin exactly right.
Congressman Billybob