[Cicero]

We have been repeatedly told that Thune didn't challenge the results because he wants to run again. The hell with him. After putting his personal career about his party, he should never be allowed to run again.

[McGavin999]

Are you kidding? It's almost impossible to prove voter fraud unless someone confesses. Hardly likely considering the penalties. He would only have ended up damaged goods and the republican party would have been portrayed as poor losers.

HE knows and WE know there was fraud. We need to keep hunting until it can be proven and when it is, he'll be a shoo in for Daschles seat in 2004.

[Tall_Texan]

We have been repeatedly told that Thune didn't challenge the results because he wants to run again. The hell with him. After putting his personal career about his party, he should never be allowed to run again.

Actually, being a coward makes him blend in perfectly with the rest of the Republican lemmings in the Senate....

[Reverend Bob]

The great thing about the Republican Party under Bush II is that it has the strategic, and not just tactical, vision that they've long lacked. One could challenge the results, but to what end? Most of the fraud was unearthed prior to the election and never put into effect. That which remained is largely unprovable and COMPLETELY unquantifiable. In short, without hard evidence, there's no compelling legal case to be made and, should Thune pursue it, he'll come off like a whiney crybaby.

What's clear from the above is that Republicans plan to prosecute those who can be prosecuted, keep Dem voter fraud in the news for the next two years, and tar Daschle with it good in 2004. Voters hate whiners, but will often give good men a second chance if they bear up well under adversity. Look to Jeb Bush, Norm Coleman, John Kline, and Jim Talent for recent examples. In the long run the Johnson/Thune race may be a Pyrrhic Victory for Daschle -- he now has stiff competition for 2004 if he decides to chance another run.

[FryingPan101]

Yeah. Well...I've never even been to South Dakota but if they love Democrats so much there, maybe Thune can borrow a line from algore and introduce himself by saying, "I used to be the next Senator from South Dakota." Democrats cannot win without cheating.