I guess everyone in the state except me, until now, has seen Tom Daschle's latest ad, in which various Daschle Republicans complain about "negative ads." You can view the Daschle ad in question HERE. One reader notes that Steve Grubbrud of Huron, one of the people in the Daschle ad, is standing in front of a cornfield in which the corn plants have tasseled, and saying "I hate these negative ads, Tom Daschle's a good man, he's done a lot of good things for South Dakota. I'm a Republican and there's a lot of Republicans in South Dakota that feel the same way as I do."
Corn plants don't tassel until late summer, meaning that this Daschle ad, or at least the segment with Steve Grubbrud, was in the can almost a year ago. It leads one to ask exactly what negative ad Steve Grubbrud was upset about at the time. It also says something about the singlemindedness with which Tom Daschle approaches re-election, busily taping ads and running them over a year before election day. What's interesting is that this singleminded attitude isn't getting results for Daschle in the polls. Daschle can't break 50%, and his challenger, who has yet to run a single ad, only trails him by a few points.
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