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...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...
...South Dakota Thune vs. Johnson Pegged as a battle between Bush and Daschle surrogates, this campaign is also widely seen as perhaps the best chance the GOP has for re-taking the Senate. The battle between Tim Johnson, the Democrat, and Republican John Thune has had its ugly moments, and it's running tight right down to the wire...