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My suggestion is: Next time run a candidate smart enough to be on the right side of the social-security-personal-accounts issue. I've read that, unlike successful candidates Dole and Sununu, Thune campaigned against personal accounts. If he had shown the basic smarts to support a reform enjoying broad support among Americans, enough of the 20,000 Republicans who voted for Johnson would have stayed with him to make stealing the election impossible. I don't have much sympathy for any Republican who makes himself vulnerable to defeat by taking foolish positions. What I don't understand is why the Bush operatives who recruited Thune to run didn't set him straight on this issue.

I agree. When Republicans try and out-Democrat the Democrats, they generally lose.

It's going to take an unashamed/unabashed/unapologetic conservative warrior to defeat Daschle here in 2004.

No reason one can't win either...Republicans hold an overwhelming registration edge.