The Weekly Standard's Fred Barnes has written a piece headlined "A Democratic Senate?" Excerpt:
START WITH SOUTH DAKOTA. Bush is certain to win the state overwhelmingly. Daschle is more vulnerable than Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson, who was reelected in 2002. Johnson narrowly defeated John Thune, now Daschle's foe and by far the best candidate Republicans could field. Daschle can't credibly argue he's cooperated with Bush, as Johnson did, and he's more visibly liberal. The race is a tossup.
If David Kranz, the dean of South Dakota political reporters, cites this Weekly Standard piece in next Sunday's column, as he is almost certain to do, watch whether he quotes what I've excerpted above, particularly the sentence "Daschle can't credibly argue he's cooperated with Bush, as Johnson did, and he's more visibly liberal." Daschle likes to tell people here in South Dakota that he supports President Bush 75% of the time, although Americans for Democratic Action gives Daschle an 83% lifetime average Liberal Quotient, higher even than George McGovern, an icon of the Left.
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