Long-running liberal columnist Mark Shields is really promoting Senator Thune:
MARK SHIELDS: No, the commission turned it around, and the biggest man in American politics today whether you want to admit it or not is John Thune, freshman Republican candidate - senator from South Dakota. He not only defeated Tom Daschle, the Democratic Senate leader, last November, but he pledged to keep open the -- what's the Air Force base there?
JIM LEHRER: Ellsworth.
Of course in his column the day after the decision and then again in his Sunday column Dave Kranz, Daschle's long-time buddy, couldn't bring himself to admit that this is obviously a big win for Thune. Maybe tomorrow he'll finally be forced to admit the obvious no matter how much he doesn't want to.
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