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Friday, October 15, 2004
Non-baseball: Daschle ineligible for Senate?
It's the second most closely-watched race in America, and it may be over before a single ballot is cast. It seems that Democratic Senate minority leader Tom Daschle may have forfeited his South Dakota residency when he proclaimed his new Washington, DC home as his "principal place of residence" in order to qualify for a local tax cut. That would make the Senator ineligible to represent the state in Congress.
How is it possible that no one caught this earlier?
Check out Daschle v. Thune for more as this one pans-out.
UPDATE: How important is the South Dakota Senate race to the parties? Daschle and John Thune (the Republican candidate) have combined to raise nearly $20 million- in a state that had just 471,152 registered voters in the last election. That's about $41 dollars for each voter! And that doesn't even include the considerable amount of 527 money coming in.
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