Tom Daschle has lost SD to John Thune.

I've had the dubious pleasure of meeting Tom a couple of times....and I don't care for him.  He's manipulated the people and he's lied. He's paid people for their vote, and he's deliberately targeted the Native American population, going so far as to pay people for their vote (he was also accused of registering dead Natives to vote and of bussing intoxicated people to the polls last time around) He's used scare-mongering tactics, like telling folks that the only reason Ellsworth AFB is still open is because of him.  That if he goes, Ellsworth goes, and so does a sizeable chunk of changed for the west river economy.

Tom, your time's up.  Run out.  The people of SD have seen you talk the talk at election time, but not walk the walk.  It's time for a change.

(My prediction is that Ellsworth will be on the '05 base closure list, and that Daschle will try and tell everyone that if he had been re-elected that wouldn't have happened.  That's bull; the list is already past the initial draft stage so if Ellsworth's on there it would have been put on there before Tom got ousted.)