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Daschle thinks they did everything right...
During the day Tuesday, Daschle made a point of talking to all the Democratic candidates battling for Senate seats. Most of them lost. âThey were all optimistic that they were going to win. What happened was a surprise. I didnât see it coming,â he said.That tells you that you were doing someting wrong, right? So how're you gonna fix it? In hindsight, Daschle said, he wouldnât change the partyâs strategy. âI canât think of anything we would have done differently. I wouldnât change anything,â he said. âWe had wonderful candidates, good resources. It just wasnât our night.â "Duh. I can't think o' nuttin'..." He said he accepts responsibility for the losses. Even though he doesn't have a clue as to why it happened... âAbsolutely, I must do that,â he said. âIt is something we must accept.â I watched a part of Kathleen Kennedy's debate with Bob Ehrlich during the campaign. It was held at Morgan State University, a mostly black college in Baltimore, and it was packed with The Fair Kathleen's supporters. She ripped into Ehrlich, who is a quiet, personable kind of guy, and did everything but claim he goes out wearing a sheet on Thursday nights. I watched her concession speech last night with a certain amount of satisfaction. "Unfortunately, we fell short," she said. I think I heard on the radio today that she said she wouldn't have done anything differently, either. Personally, if I had a nail in my forehead, and it hurt every time I tapped it with a hammer, I'd quit tapping. Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-11-06 |
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