unnoticed political fact

[Nathan Newman]

Daschle is not up until 2004 and won pretty comfortably in his last race.
Conrad was just reelected by a comfortable margin and has been pretty safe.
Dorgan is also not up until 2004.

The Dakotas are odd places that vote pretty GOP for President but keep
electing pretty liberal Dems for Senate - its an odd populism but then it
has a long tradition of strange political alignments

Nathan Newman
nathan at newman.org
http://www.nathannewman.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema" <crdbronx at erols.com>
To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 7:06 PM
Subject: Re: unnoticed political fact

How safe are these guys' seats? Maybe somebody like Jim Chapin knows.
Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema

Leslilake1 at aol.com wrote:


> DICTATORSHIP OF THE DAKOTANS  (from Sam Smith's Progressive Review)
>
> AMAZING UNNOTED POLITICAL FACT: In the Senate at least, the Dakotans are
> taking over the country. Not only is Tom Daischle majority leader, but
> Kent Conrad is chair of the Senate Budget Committee and Byron Dorgan is
> chair of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee. When you throw in
> Missouran Democrat Richard Gephardt, the extent of the change on Capitol
> Hill becomes apparent. Middle America had taken over and it's
> Democratic. The elitists are now those Republicans in the White House.