Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Senate from Daschle next week. A phone call came in from Vice President Dick Cheney. "You in some undisclosed location?" Lott joked. The Secret Service always seemed to be whisking Cheney away because of a terror threat. This time Cheney wasn't hiding. Ironically, he was in South Dakota for some hunting. "Did you bag any Democrats out there," Lott said with a laugh. After trading stories about their favorite hunting rifles, the two men got down to business...
...President's whirlwind stump schedule was born. Senate races in New Hampshire, Georgia, South Dakota and Minnesota were shaping up to be nail-biters, and so Bush was dispatched to fundraisers, get-out-the-vote events and rallies, touting the experience and political wisdom of John Sununu, Saxby Chambliss and Norm Coleman. The President also spent time in Florida, speaking on behalf of his brother Jeb, whose incumbency to the governor's mansion was under siege. Every one of those campaigns took home a victory Tuesday night. And while it's hard to measure precisely the influence the President...
...early this morning, U.S. Rep. John Thune (R) led incumbent Sen. Tim Johnson (D) in a South Dakota race that was the scene of a political battle between President Bush—who recruited Thune to run for the post—and Senate Majority Leader Thomas Daschle (D-S.D.), who campaigned heavily for his colleague...
...Compulsive gamblers in North Dakota Voters overwhelmingly approved plans to launch a state lottery, in one of the 202 ballot propositions up for consideration in 40 states...
...President Bush had a good night, his political adviser Karl Rove had an even better one. His hand-picked candidates in Missouri, South Dakota, Minnesota, Tennessee and New Hampshire all won. There was some bruising of Rove's image after his candidate Richard Riordan lost the California Republican primary, but that's small beans now. Rove was able to even pick up little victories as well. The new senator and governor of South Carolina were both strong McCain backers in 2000 who boasted during the hard fought presidential primary there two years ago that they were the future of that...