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But Michael New, a post-doctoral fellow at the Harvard-MIT Data Center, has inspected the South Dakota Secretary of State's Web site to discover other striking facts: While Democrat Tim Johnson ran statewide about 12 percentage points behind what Mr. Daschle got in his 1998 Senate victory, in Shannon County Mr. Johnson ran about 12 percentage points ahead. He got 92% of the vote compared with Mr. Daschle's 80%. Nowhere else in the state did Mr. Johnson improve his vote share relative to Mr. Daschle. Senate voter turnout was up 27% statewide for this year's close contest compared with 1998,...

Conflict of interest questions are swirling around the wife of Senate Plurality Leader Tom Daschle, prompted by the top Democrat's demand Sunday that President Bush order the Securities and Exchange Commission to release its full investigative file on Bush's 1990 sale of Harken Energy stock. Despite the call for full disclosure, the Daschles refuse to make their tax returns public, reports New York Post's Deborah Orin, including details on income earned from Mrs. Daschle's lobbying on behalf of a company that foisted defective bomb detecting scanners on the Federal Aviation Administration. Apparently Mrs. Daschle is unconcerned that she may have...