I think Fund has nailed it - Thune figures that in heavily Republican SD, he'll have his shot in the future, so it's not worth "sullying" himself in a recount catfight now. He probably wants to avoid looking like an Al Gore "Sore Loserman." Backbone in a party of invertibrates is not rewarded, i.e., Hatch, Ashcroft; Lott, Specter, et. al.
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Backbone in a party of invertibrates is not rewarded, i.e., Hatch, Ashcroft; Lott, Specter, et. al.Oh rats rear ...... Bush, Gov. Bush, Cheney, Congressman DeLay, Rumsfeld, Rice, Scalia, Thomas, Nickles, Gramm, Graham, ............