Kranz skates by Senate poll

Yesterday, I predicted David Kranz, the dean of South Dakota political reporters, would skip the latest Rasmussen poll in his column today. Well, my prediction was wrong, sort of. If you blinked, you missed it. Here's how Kranz reported the results of the poll, in a paragraph near the end of his column:

...Thune over Daschle, 50-47...

That's how the dean of South Dakota political reporters reports the historic news that a Senate leader is losing to a challenger. That hasn't happened since 1952, when Senate Majority Leader Ernest McFarland of Arizona began falling behind his 43 year old challenger, Barry Goldwater.

Also, as predicted, Kranz skipped the Bob Novak quote on CNN reporting that "[T]he Democrats I talked to here in Washington are very worried about South Dakota, where the Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle is actually a point or two behind in the polls[.]"