South Dakota native Joseph Bottum has a must-read piece in this week's edition of the Weekly Standard headlined "Prairie Politics: Daschle, Thune, and the race for South Dakota." There's lots to chew on in the piece, but the following passage was particularly gratifying:
So, if Thune couldn't beat the weaker candidate Johnson in 2002, how's he supposed to beat the stronger candidate Daschle in 2004? Well, part of the answer may be better press coverage. The state's dominant newspaper, the Sioux Falls Argus Leader, for instance, ran a long profile of Tim Johnson in 2002 so puffy and sweet it should be handed out in journalism school as a model of disingenuous advocacy. A similar performance this year seems unlikely, as the South Dakota bloggers--particularly Jon Lauck at Daschle v. Thune, Steve Sibson at Sibby Online, and Jason Van Beek at South Dakota Politics--have kept relentlessly after the Argus Leader.
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