[willgetsome]

As I posted before, the reason SD voted for Bush but supports Daschle is that it is a small, poor state that needs power-players in both parties to get federal money.

[bigaln2]

hope this works..  11/06/02            CENTRAL ELECTION REPORTING SYSTEM           04:10:23
    ST05BTCH                   ELECTION TOTALS
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
                                   TOTAL   PERCENT   PRECINCTS      TOTAL
                                   VOTES   OF VOTE   REPORTING    PRECINCTS
 
     U S SENATE
   (L) EVANS          KURT            2971        1          814           844
   (D) JOHNSON        TIM           160497       49          814           844
   (R) THUNE          JOHN          162295       50          814           844

[Charles Henrickson]

816 of 844 precincts reporting, Thune with a 1600 vote lead.

[maryz]

As I posted before, the reason SD voted for Bush but supports Daschle is that it is a small, poor state that needs power-players in both parties to get federal money.

It's still a small, poor state -- what exactly has he done for them (besides get an exemption from the enviro's for the forests)? I heard somewhere that Daschle has built his support by providing excellent "constituent services" (rather like Teddy K here in MA).