Daschle appears to be toast

With 97% precincts having reported, Thune leads Daschle by more than 9,000 votes (2% margin). In all likelihood Daschle is unseated, and the Demos must be looking for their new Senate leader. Kerry maybe? Edwards will be gone.

This is the price Daschle paid for his obstructionist tactics in the Senate. The GOP still does not have a filibuster-proof majority, but if the Demos keep on abusing that power (as they did in holding up an up-or-down vote on several of W.’s well-qualified nominees), they will be losing more seats. With Rehnquist’s health in question (God bless him!), it is important that W. appoint constitutionalists, and I am hoping that W. in his second term will do precisely that (and more to move the country back toward its classical liberal ideals).