Daschle in Tough, Costly Election Fight

Well in my opinion, he has screwed himself with the attacks on Bush. Have you heard a peep from him lately? Man is his seat on the line!


UPDATE!

Daschle in Tough, Costly Election Fight

Oct 29, 4:57 PM (ET)

By CHET BROKAW

(AP) Former Rep. John Thune, R-S.D., left, and Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., discuss prescription drug...










REDFIELD, S.D. (AP) - In the nation's most dramatic - and most expensive Senate race - Minority Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota is scrambling to maintain his political life in a state where Republicans say the Democrat is out of touch with people in a state that solidly supports President Bush.

Daschle and Republican John Thune had spent $26.3 million, more than $50 apiece for each of the state's 502,000 registered voters, as of mid-October. That doesn't include the millions of dollars being spent by outside groups, most of them opposed to Daschle.

The race is a dead heat. In many ways it is a rerun of Thune's first try for the Senate in 2002, when he lost by just 524 votes to Tim Johnson, South Dakota's other Democratic senator. That race was seen by many as a surrogate battle between Daschle and Bush, who helped recruit Thune.







South Dakota Senate Race
Rasmussen-1 Oct 12

Tom
Daschle*
(49%)

John
Thune
(49%)

In the clubby Senate, having one party go after the jugular of the other party's leader was Not Done. Until this year. The Republicans have launched an all out effort to defeat Minority Leader Tom Daschle in this heavily Republican state. However it is worth noting that South Dakotans just elected an inexperienced young Democratic woman, Stephanie Herseth, to Congress in a special election on June 1. It could go either way.

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Well maybe I found my own answer....

Daschle Staff, DC Officials Replace Homestead Tax Document Following Investigative Report
By Jeff Gannon
Talon News
October 26, 2004

WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- A staffer for Sen. Tom Daschle (D-SD) admitted last week that a difficult situation caused by an affidavit signed by the senator when he applied for Washington, DC's "homestead tax exemption" was secretly "fixed" following a Talon News investigative report.

The original August 13, 2003 story raised questions about a property tax break claimed by Daschle for a home he and his wife purchased for $1.9 million in April 2003.

www.gopusa.com...

Daschle in Tough, Costly Election Fight

Well in my opinion, he has screwed himself with the attacks on Bush. Have you heard a peep from him lately? Man is his seat on the line!


UPDATE!

Daschle in Tough, Costly Election Fight

Oct 29, 4:57 PM (ET)

By CHET BROKAW

REDFIELD, S.D. (AP) - In the nation's most dramatic - and most expensive Senate race - Minority Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota is scrambling to maintain his political life in a state where Republicans say the Democrat is out of touch with people in a state that solidly supports President Bush.

Daschle and Republican John Thune had spent $26.3 million, more than $50 apiece for each of the state's 502,000 registered voters, as of mid-October. That doesn't include the millions of dollars being spent by outside groups, most of them opposed to Daschle.

The race is a dead heat. In many ways it is a rerun of Thune's first try for the Senate in 2002, when he lost by just 524 votes to Tim Johnson, South Dakota's other Democratic senator. That race was seen by many as a surrogate battle between Daschle and Bush, who helped recruit Thune.

apnews.myway.com...




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Democrats Panic as Daschle Falls Behind in Polls


Democrats Panic as Daschle Falls Behind in Polls
By Jeff Gannon
Talon News
October 29, 2004

WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- Democratic Party leaders are worried that the head of their party in Congress may be defeated in next Tuesday's election. Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) has fallen behind his Republican challenger, former Rep. John Thune (R-SD), in the latest polls. A Zogby poll released Wednesday showed Thune leading the incumbent by three points, 49% to 46%, with 7% undecided.

University of Virginia politics professor Larry Sabato was quoted in The Cavalier Daily as saying that the Democrats he spoke with were alarmed that the South Dakota race is so close.

"Every one of them told me they're scared to death that Daschle will lose," Sabato said.

When Democrats' internal polling demonstrated the shift late last week, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) rushed to make a $600,000 ad buy to support the sagging campaign. Daschle had challenged his opponent to keep third party ads out of the campaign, something that neither candidate is legally able to do under the campaign finance laws passed after the 2000 election. But it doesn't appear that the Democrat is going resist the DSCC's plan to aid his reelection bid in the final days of the campaign.

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