[Alberta's Child]

I was out in South Dakota for several days in September of 2004 -- in the heat of the 2004 presidential election and Tom Daschle's re-election bid for his U.S. Senate seat. If you saw the billboards along I-90 and listened to the radio ads, you would have sworn that Daschle was a conservative Republican who had endorsed Bush against Kerry. Fortunately for the GOP, it was learned that Daschle had been listing his D.C. home as his primary residence and therefore there was some question about whether he was legally eligible to represent South Dakota in the U.S. Senate. There was never any kind of legal challenge in the works, but his opponent draped that around his neck like an anchor and defeated him.

The thing you have to remember about these Democratic candidates run campaigns in their home states that are very different than the images they present when they're on MSNBC in a "national mode" in a party leadership role.

[rod1]

Yeah but they vote with Reid and Pelosi on anything that really matters.

[Maine Mariner]

ABSOLUTELY CORRECT!!

Bryon Dorgan, congressman and then senator from North Dakota
did the exact same thing. Some years ago, the son of a friend of mine graduated from West Point. They had a commissioning ceremony near Fargo. Then Congressman Dorgan was invited to speak. What he said would have made almost all FREEPERS pround (except the trolls). He talked about the men and women in uniform and the sacrifices they make.
He waxed eloquent about the military and West Point. That is how he and Conrad did it and got re-elected. Left wing in DC and conservative patriots back in ND

[Blue Highway]

That’s what I don’t get. Are the local people seeing the local ads too stupid to see the big picture and see say a Debbie Wasserman Schultz on tv or read about her here in the news?