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Daschle Beat Bush in Election, Aide Claims



He may have lost his post as Senate Majority Leader and cost his fellow Democrats control of the Senate, but at least one advisor to soon-to-be Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle is calling last week's Democrat election debacle a victory.

"They [Bush and Daschle] went head to head for all intents and purposes, and Daschle won," the top Senate Dem's unnamed aide told the Washington Post Sunday.

He was referring to the South Dakota Senate race, which was widely billed as a contest between surrogates for Bush and Daschle.

Last week Republican candidate John Thune inexplicably conceded defeat to Democrat Tim Johnson without demanding a recount, even though the final tally showed Thune just 500 votes down in a contest swirling with allegations of Democratic Party vote fraud.

As usual, the Donkey Party has mistaken Thune's political graciousness for weakness, and is now calling the possibly stolen election was a significant win.



What makes this really pathetic is that the Democratic Party focused every last bit of its power on the annihilation of Jeb Bush in Florida, along with other Republicans involved in the 2000 election like Katharine Harris.

With all the bravado of Babe Ruth pointing at the fence, the DNC and McCauliffe announced before the election that they were sparing no effort to rub every last wet bit of the Florida Republican party out of existence, and that this was their prime goal in the election. Possibly at the expense of many other races.

Jeb Bush, and for that matter, Harris, blew the doors off their opponents. It wasn't even close. Now to call the 500-vote victory in SD something significant just shows that some members of the Democratic Party and reality have pretty much parted company.

The truth is that if Daschle had been up for election this time, he would have been fighting for his political life, and he knows it. Maybe his aide is an airhead, but Daschle isn't.