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My impression was that the president and the White House did an excellent job nationalizing the campaign.

And I think you've got to give him credit politically for having done that very effectively.

We have the commentary of a President Obama on this election.

At this point, he's not President Obama, though. He's just state senator

Obama from Illinois.

States like these

and their terrorist allies

constitute an access of evil.

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maybe it's Sioux Falls, or some smaller prairie town where politics still happened face-to-face.

And that's how he did it. Dashel had built a career on this type of campaigning.

He liked moving through crowds, going randomly to towns and cities, not announcing that he was coming to a town.

It's asking about crops, weather, cattle prices, or high school football.

He learned this from his mentor, George McGovern. George McGovern got elected by a group of people that didn't always share his politics. Like McGovern, Dashel found that he was surviving in a small state. So he walks down the sidewalk, and here's a deep roar overhead.

Above him is Air Force One. The president, George W. Bush, is here in South Dakota.

Challenging his own state with Secret Service agents, satellite trucks, national media. It wasn't something that all his advisors were thrilled with, getting too personally tied to midterm elections.

Now, it hadn't worked out well for Bull Clinton when he does this in 1994. Historically, midterms

punished the party in power in the White House,

punish them through the congressional elections. If candidates lost, the president then would look

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