FF.
Somewhat-related: Tom Daschle's loss sucked and in hindsight he and maybe the country would've been better off if he'd ran for president or was Kerry's veep instead of the philandering ambulance chaser.
Why did the guy lose?
- John Thune was a former congressman from that state so he had already won multiple state wide races there
- Thune nearly beat Tim Johnson in 2002 and Johnson wasnt nearly as tied to the national democratic party as Dashale was .
- Dashale has no way to distance himself from the national democratic party since he was the national democratic party given he was the democratic senate leader
- Bush and Rove targeted that senate seat so Republicans put in a lot of resources in trying to flip that seat
