[gogeo]

Trump has a hard time resonating with Republican voters in the Great Plains and Mountain states. As a media-driven jackass from New York with a big mouth (and I use this term endearingly), I suspect his appeal is very limited outside urban areas.

I guess that would explain the otherwise inexplicable, the habit of fairly conservative folks to elect the likes of Tom Daschle, Max Baucus, and Chuck Hagel to the Senate.

You'll understand if I don't genuflect before their 'wisdom.'

[Alberta's Child]

It has nothing to do with "wisdom" and everything to do with how people mold their campaigns.

I saw this up close in 2004 when Daschle was running for the last time in South Dakota. If you saw his campaign strategy, you'd think he was running as a conservative Republican. There were billboards all over I-90 with huge photos of Tom Daschle and George W. Bush together. The billboards and radio ads never mentioned that he was a Democrat, and he ran as a rural populist first and foremost. He'd probably still be in the U.S. Senate now if his position as the Democratic leader of the U.S. Senate hadn't compromised his populist appeal in South Dakota.