One big factor that has traditionally helped out Blue Senators in Red States is that their liberal votes for the first 5 years of their terms are not publicized by their state's local MSMs, and then their fraudulent moderate or even conservative voting record the last few months before each re-election are all that the voters hear about.
And they point out how what happened to Daschle this time is truly horrifying to Blue Dems in Red States. His usual modus operandi failed him this time due to the loss of the MSM's previously monolithic power, as the truth about his voting record was hammered home on talk radio, on the internet, and so on. This looks like a great blueprint for the GOP to do the same to other BlueDem-RedState Senators in the future!
If you're right, then Freepers need to identify the six or seven most at risk Dems and we need to star a financial campaign to unseat them in 2006. A lot of people outside of South Dakota contributed to Thune's campaign. There was a well choreographed advertising campaign on the net to get Republicans in other states to contribute to Daschle's defeat. We need to think a little bigger next time and do the same thing for the weakest Rat senators up for re-election in 06. And we need to lay the groundwork for that NOW.
"As a public service, The Washington Times editorial page will be scrutinizing and publicizing the votes of 16 red-state Democrats. We'll also keep an eye on the four blue-state Democrats (Maria Cantwell of Washington, New Jersey's Mr. Corzine, Mark Dayton of Minnesota and Debbie Stabenow of Michigan) who won narrow victories in 2000 and face voters again in 2006."