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Bergman, paired with Lingman, also competed in the doubles competition. The pair decisively won its quarterfinal match against Penn State’s Katie Wang and Megan Morton, 8-2, but then fell to Jessica Johnson and Alice Sukner of Marshall in the semifinals...
Before this campaign, Johnson, who is seeking a second term, and Thune, running for the Senate after three terms as the state's only Representative, were regarded as easygoing and likable. Then the national parties and other outside organizations started pouring millions of dollars into TV advertising, bombarding the state with commercials to the point that the average voter is estimated to have seen more than 800 of them. A good deal of the advertising has been negative. "With this much clutter out there and this much money being spent on the airwaves, the candidates start losing control...
...would figure that the barbecue that Senator Tim Johnson threw a few weeks ago in Madison, S.D., would be a typical small-town affair. Two hundred citizens showed up for food and a chance to ask questions of their Senator. But so did a BBC camera crew, a Japanese newspaper reporter, a TV team from Italy and the Washington bureau chief of the Economist...
That a Senate race in a state with fewer people than the city of San Francisco is getting all this attention has little to do with the two candidates, Democrat Johnson and Republican John Thune. But control of the U.S. Senate is up for grabs, making close contests like this one crucial. Moreover, many political operatives regard the South Dakota race as a proxy war between Senate majority leader Tom Daschle, the state's senior Senator, and President George W. Bush, who sweet-talked Thune out of running for Governor so the Republicans might have a chance of humiliating Daschle...
...agree that Social Security should be protected, and both support prescription benefits for seniors. They just don't agree on how to achieve these ends. Neither has been shy about touting the national implications of a victory. Thune talks of the influence he would have with the White House; Johnson, of the importance of keeping Daschle in control of the Senate as well as holding on to his own Appropriations Committee post. South Dakotans are keenly aware of what it means to have clout in Washington. The state receives more money than it remits in taxes, and with an aging...