South Dakota - Thune barely over Daschle

[NWPhotog]

U.S. SENATE SOUTH DAKOTA
45% Reporting
THUNE R 81,987 50%
DASCHLE D 81,196 50%

 

[Ought Six]

As of 10:45 PST, with 89% of precincts reporting:

Thune - 162,506 - 51%
Daschole - 156,755 - 49%

 

[Mrs. Peavey]

Senate Minority Leader Daschle Loses Seat

12 minutes ago Politics - AP


By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent

WASHINGTON - Republicans tightened their grip on the Senate early Wednesday, dealing defeat to Democratic Leader Tom Daschle in South Dakota and capturing a string of seats across the South.


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Daschle fell to former Rep. John Thune, the first Senate party leader to lose a race for re-election in more than a half century.


Republicans were assured of 53 seats in the Senate that convenes in January, two more than they control in the current Congress.

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[Ought Six]

The Repubs will be dancing in the halls tonight!



I understand this is the first time in a half-century or so that a current Senate party leader has lost his seat. It could not have happened to a nicer man!

 

[BL225128]

O6:

You forgot the caption..."I'm deeply, deeply saddened."

 

[Rams82]

Poor Puff Daschle

 

[Birchwood05]

Poor Dasshole!

 

[Dennis Olson]

This is one race I'm glad went the way it did.

 

[Aleph Null]

Me too. Never liked that guy. But then, there are few members of the senate that I do like.

-A0-

 

[fairbanksb]

As a staunch Republican I was hoping, by the early returns, that Arlan Specter was going to lose. Alas he pulled it out.

 

[NWPhotog]

I still wonder how South Dakota ever kept him for so long. Probably like Washington state, big liberal centers on both ends of the state and very conservative in the middle

 

[mistaken1]

Good riddance. What is the senate going to do with all those height enhancing platforms?