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Yeah, Daschle's loss was a major setback for the Democrats, as well as being pretty surprising.
That particular Senate race is the most expensive in US history, as well as (I think) being the longest.
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I guess I was more aware, for the first time in my voting history, of the huge Rural/Urban split of this race. I have seen it before - but not as dramatically as now.
If you look at each state, and Bush/Kerry votes by county, overall (there are exceptions, of course) Bush won rural areas, and Kerry won major Metropolitan or heavily populated areas. And so, also, Kerry won the heavily populated California and West Coast, as well as the Beltway and New England states, where there is a great population of urban.
In states like Iowa, the most Kerry supporters were in the east-most populated counties along the river, and Des Moines (although he didn't pull a majority there). Same with Kansas -- the only really pro-Kerry showing was in the metropolitan KC area.
I can see that over time, as urban areas grow (which they are doing at a very rapid rate) and rural population declines, the shift of power could be major.
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