Lost Leader
How Tom Daschle set the stage for his own defeat.
Joseph Bottum
September 17, 2007, Vol. 13, No. 01
Daschle vs. Thune
Anatomy of a High-Plains Senate Race
by Jon K. Lauck
Oklahoma, 304 pp., $24.95
It seemed almost a miracle. Tom Daschle, the South Dakotan who rose to lead the Democrats in the Senate, performed perhaps his greatest political feat in 2002, when he worked and schemed, cajoled and threatened, and eventually dragged to victory Tim Johnson, the Democrat running for South Dakota's second Senate seat.
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