Jeff Gannon, whose reportage had a dramatic impact on the Daschle v. Thune race (his story about Sen. Daschle signing a legal document claiming to be a D.C. resident was published nearly the same day Thune began to run an ad showing Daschle saying "I'm a DC resident"), has written an analysis of the debacle headlined "Daschle Betrayed By Staff In Homestead Tax Debacle" Excerpt:
Although several factors contributed to the defeat of Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD), one of the most serious wounds the three-term incumbent suffered was self-inflicted. In claiming a property tax break limited to residents of the District of Columbia, the Senator drew attention to the very thing he had long worked to conceal: He was more a creature of Washington, DC than Aberdeen, SD.(Via DVT.)
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