MESSAGE FROM A SOUTH DAKOTA OBSERVER: Via Maggie Gallagher

John Thune won in the closing weeks of the campaign because of the potency of two overlapping themes: 1) Daschle talks conservative in South Dakota but acts the opposite in Washington.
2) Daschle has lost touch with basic South Dakota values.

The issues that drove these two themes in the closing days were the Federal Marriage Amendment, Daschle's patently false pro-life and pro-marriage claims, Daschle's record of obstructionism--especially his blocking of President Bush's conservative judicial nominees, and the brouhaha over Daschle's official residency.

As National Review Online has noted, the 527 "You're Fired" ran a massive television and radio campaign in the closing weeks of the campaign using Daschle's opposition to the Federal Marriage Amendment to question whether Daschle's "heart is still in the heartland."

posted by Eve at 4:19 PM | link

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