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See this from the Rapid City Journal:

What we lack in quantity, we make up for in quality: two of South Dakota's three Congressional delegates are the hottest on Capitol Hill, based on a poll by Washingtonian magazine.

South Dakota Rep. Stephanie Herseth was named "hottest babe" in the U.S. House in a recent survey of legislative aides by Washingtonian, according to a story in the Palm Springs, Calif., Desert Sun newspaper. Herseth, a Democrat, got nearly twice as many votes as runner-up Mary Bono, R-Calif.

Hill staffers also named Republican Sen. John Thune the most attractive man in the U.S. Senate, according to the Desert News story.

This isn't the first time South Dakota's members of Congress have received attention for their good looks. As a freshman representative in 1997, Thune was "Mr. January" in a calendar created by former Rep. Susan Molinari, R-N.Y. Washingtonian magazine also named Thune one of five "hunks" of the freshman class that year, and he was later included in Hill News' "50 Most Beautiful People on Capitol Hill."

Herseth was Politics1.com's "Hottest Woman in U.S. Politics" in 2004, finishing second in this year's reader poll to Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn.

UPDATE:  Denise Ross reports that Herseth's boyfriend won the award for "No Altar Boy" in the House.